If been involved in mineral exploration in the west. Ten square miles of New Mexico is not much, really. However, it is the “tip of the iceberg” for this radical bunch of elitist autocrats. They care nothing about due process, the Constitution, science, or even the environment. They worship power.
I should have included “Indians” in the list of things the left doesn’t really care about.
Yep, foot in the door.
This is a trial run. NM has a lot of natural gas in the eastern counties. And this admin has it’s sights set on the Permian basin also. That huge field produces 40% of crude in this country.