Given Obama as President, it won’t happen.
He'll do what Clinton did with one of the largest coal deposits in the world (right here in the US), designate the prime areas as national parks.
Obama Fracked My Wallet
My brother had worked for years on the Western Slope of Colorado in the Parachute and Rifle areas. The Left has largely shut down drilling and exploration on the BLM lands there.
He is now in North-West North Dakota surveying for gas and oil lines on private lands there. The Bakken Reserve is causing a gold-rush-like boom there.
Unfortunately, there is a distinct lack of accommodations for the workers there. They can’t house the workers that can build housing for the other workers.
Exactly. You can bet your last dollar that Obama will make sure that there will be no permits issued.