One of our Freeper guys told me that the Bureau of Land Management throws up roadblocks to stop them from drilling. Even on leased land.
Say it aint so....
Here in Wyoming the BLM (Chris Hansen - Director of the Buffalo BLM office) is doing everything in their power to shut down EXISTING drilling for Coal-Bed Methane(Natural Gas).
The excuse is the Sage Grouse population going down. Must be why Wyoming INCREASED the bag limit on the birds during hunting season.
Like they say here in the West: You have Pine Pigs(USFS), Prarie Pigs (BLM), and Park Pigs (NPS) and none of them are your friends....
I read that exploratory leases don't provide for drilling. If they want to drill, they have to start a whole new leasing application process.