[Milton Miteybad]

There is no reason fracking and grazing can’t co-exist.

Or seismic work. Or drilling. Or completions. Or any other activity associated with oil and gas exploration.

The linked article refers, rather hysterically, to "oil fracking leases" and "shale fracking leases," and cites a BLM lease auction where the feds sold leases in Elko County, NV for $1.27 million (which is a pretty modest amount for a federal lease auction). Last time I checked, Elko County is quite a distance away from Clark County.

Also, I happen to have no less than half a dozen leases sitting here on my desk. Every one of them is clearly styled at the top "Oil, Gas and Mineral Lease." Strangely enough, not one of them is styled as a "Oil Fracking Lease" or a "Shale Fracking Lease," as if buying a bunch of expensive hydrofrac services was in and of itself the objective.

[Kackikat]

I think the point was that BLM lied about the ‘Desert Tortoise’ because they were destroying that same reptile last year!
And be sure to check the link on comment #22 for the plan on Solar in So Nevada land....more gov’t backed solar companies to waste taxpayer dollars and fill dem coffers before going bankrupt?
I like Solar but not the fleecing of the people!

[Smokin' Joe]

Most media people don't realize hydraulic fracturing is a production enhancement method and not a drilling method. Yes, it is that bad, and I have tried to correct them in other venues.

They even refer to rail transported Bakken oil as 'fracked' as if that made it more dangerous, not realizing it is the rock around the wellbore which gets fracked, not the oil.