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Originally Posted by dyna mo
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.
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Yea I agree with you. I don't like fracking, but it's not like cows are going to stop it. The wells only take up small areas as well as the holding tanks.
There is just way too much bad info from all sides that seem to be cherry picking parts for their agenda. With out knowing first hand whats going on it's hard to make a call.
One thing I do not like is the lease for the 40 thousand acres of BLM land going for $1.27 mil and allowing 6 oil & gas companies to essentially pay peanuts to rape public land for profits. That may not be the case here in this situation as the fracking is just a theory but such a small amount of money for a lease like that is fucked up.
If that land was owned by private individuals there is no way in hell the oil & gas companies would get away with only paying $1.27 mil to lease 40 thousand acres. The US tax payer is getting fucked twice once by lack of income from public land and second by the oil & gas companies selling us the fruits of our public own lands at the pump for inflated prices.
I will say this, as far as the video, the Rangers did do the right thing at the end. instead of making that situation worse at that moment and pushing the issue likely leading to a more violent confrontation, they got in their trucks and left. Lucky they weren't in New Mexico as they would all probably be beaten up, a few dead and the rest in jail.
Of course that was then and what happens next, we will see when actual swat teams get used..