It is apparent to me that there are people who are trying to pin the Bundy Ranch situation on oil companies, and they have yet to produce any evidence that is the case.
Nor have they produced any evidence that there is anything in the area the oil companies would be interested in, considering the wells drilled in Clark County were not exactly barnburners. There are better prospects out there. Not necessarily so with the Solar industry, though, who have relocated tortise already to build one facility. Funny how this crap about fracking steers attention from Harry Reid & son's landholdings and Chinese Solar deals, too.
Harry Reid is front and center in his play with BLM to get the public land grazing rights over and done with, so his son and the China Solar Company can use that land.
The oil leases show the greed of BLM and the Gold Butte area used by Bundy’s cattle on public land is part of those leases, even if the ranch isn’t.
All being Clark County, NV issues.
However, the bigger issue is the water rights that will be lost with the grazing rights, as Nevada Law says if you do not use the water for six years, the ranch loses them....however that same law affects many others for water rights....so BLM stops Bundy, then stopping others from getting access to water rights they have had will be easy in other areas and states....precedents set by leftist Judges in this case.
Don’t think that the headlines on this one thread is the whole story, so quite barking, and realize there is more than oil leases here to worry about. That’s just the attention getter that shows that area is under siege!
Broaden your horizon when it comes to the reality of these situations and what the FEDS are really up to. Enough said.