Posted on 04/11/2014 8:34:41 AM PDT by Kackikat
"The Bureau of Land Management has just cashed in with $1.27 million in oil and gas leases in Nevada. This was just reported two weeks ago in ShaleReporter.com, which states:
U.S. Bureau of Land Management geologist Lorenzo Trimble tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal the Elko County oil and gas leases sold
Tuesday for $1.27 million to six different companies. The auction took place in Reno. The leases are near where Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. wants to drill for oil and natural gas on 40,000 acres of public and private land near the town of Wells. The Review-Journal reports the project would be the first in Nevada to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract oil and gas from shale deposits.
The way this works, of course, is that BLM runs land theft operations by claiming they are “managing” the land and thereby kicking everyone else off it. "
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Meanwhile, a solar energy project bulldozed turtle habitat, is frying birds in flight, and oh so politically correct windmills chop up eagles and other protected birds by the hundreds.
When the BLM is done there will be a shortage of sand in this desert. The Bundy family chose not to buy their chains.
That's the government/media narrative. Why do you automatically believe them?
/johnny
ROFL...and they used to say ‘We are from the government and we are here to help you”....too funny.
“It is because he did not pay his bills.”
This is not what I’ve read. He tried to pay his bills, but the BLM would not take his payments. He then tried to get the state to take his payments and hold them for the BLM, but the state didn’t want to be involved. Only then did he stop paying. I wish I could link you to where I’d read that, but I’ve read so many articles on this story, that I don’t know where to look .
Public land? He is part of that public. It is public, not federal land...the government has no right to claim it.
$1.27 million for 40,000 acres?
Sounds like 6 companies got themselves a real good deal.
If you want to take it with you when you go, get a tattoo.
Oy Vey! Does this mean more Solar Company loans from Taxpayer dollars, that will end up in Democrat coffers before they go bankrupt?
This whole things just keeps getting worse.
Exactly!
Wells is 300(or so) miles from the Bundy Ranch. This is about STOPPING oil development and taking water for Vegas.
“Go buy you some cows and see if you can graze on BLM land without paying.”
The BLM never had any control over those lands until Clowntoon took office!
Carter tried but Reagan put a stop to it as soon as he took office. You need to buy a history book.
Check our line at #22 and my reply...eye opening on Southern Nevada and the future of taxpayer dollars.
Note that the BLM is now run by a former Harry Reed staffer (rose to the top in 3 years - probably a floater).
Exactly. Whatever his disputes were with BLM management, he should have continued paying the fees.
Which isn’t to say BLM is correct in their management, as they are generally pwned by the ecofreak, earth mother luddites. They probably were trying to manage Bundy into bankruptcy.
But not paying the fees put him on the wrong side of the law and lets BLM legally strong arm him off the land.
We had a case here in my county where the state took land for nonpayment of taxes. The taxes would have been paid but greenies, the county and the state had it tied up in court over what the guy could do with his own property.
Once the land was taken the leases were approved within a month with the county and state dividing up the mineral rights before putting the property up for auction. The only silver lining was that the greenies got used by the state and tossed aside.
Only until the maggots get it....lol
Harry ‘the Mormon’ Reid feeds his criminal enterprise in Nevada.
He had 1,000 head of cattle. not huge by western rancher standards. In 1993, he was told by BLM he could no longer graze all of his cattle—just 150 of them in the same area, and he has disputed the numbers and charges for those numbers since. A big part of what the BLM says he owes is back fees on the “undocumented cattle” he ran there.
The whole thing is about federal over-reach, pure and simple.
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