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Originally Posted by crockett
They lease the land to the oil companies. Padre Island National Seashore which is a national park has gas wells on it owned by private companies and the land right is leased.
This was the big deal when Sarah Palin was running With McCain and the their whole "drill baby drill" slogan. She was trying to force the govt to open up more federal land in Alaska for drilling.
They let the oil companies on the land to drill and the companies pay a small fee and reap massive profits off US tax payer owned land.
No idea if that's the case here, but honestly I wouldn't be surprised.
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sure, but there's no reason to kick cattle off that land so they can lease fracking rights. also, this started way back in 1993, long before fracking was on the radar.
It seems like the blm is wanting the land for themselves and kicking peeps off it but I'm not seeing fracking as the reason.