Zinke Withdraws Area Of Montana From Oil And Gas Auction At Last Minute

[turbinetree]

Last edited Tue Mar 6, 2018, 11:49 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Talking Points Memo

A week before the Interior Department is set to auction off parcels of land in Montana for oil and gas leases, Secretary Ryan Zinke pulled a cluster of parcels from the auction on Monday evening.

Zinke, who used to represent Montana in Congress, first made the announcement on Twitter.

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Zinke followed up in a statement to the Washington Post, saying that the department needed to study the area more before approving it for auction. Local environmental groups had protested the auction and warned that it could hurt the areas near the Yellowstone river, according to the Washington Post.





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I want to buy your parcel of land that you own in Montana, where your house sits......................asshole

November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[lagomorph777]

1. If he doesn't own the mineral rights on his home, let's get somebody to drill under it.

Or open up a strip mine.

Most people are unaware that they don't own the mineral rights under "their" land.

[turbinetree]

2. Most home owners do not own the mineral rights under their home

I say lets go for it, take up a fund and have someone explore the land after all the copper mine is pretty popular in the state, heck there might be a dabble of oil, send in a seismic team and blast sound waves down to see if there is any oil and gas pockets ...........................let's just trapeze all over his parcel of land, just like they did at Dakota Pipeline, why not.....................put a big old pipe on the land 48" in diameter above ground, nothing going through it just have it above ground ...................why not, the taxpayers after all own the mineral rights..................since that is what and how he thinks..............

[beachbum bob]

3. hmmm any elections of note coming up in Montana?

same with NM...

a president's policy putting republicans in bad light isn't the way to do an election. I don't mind ..

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Public policy by inside dirty deals and nepotism

is no way to run a country, and it can hardly be called public policy.

It's private policy. Depends on who you know if you get anything.

This is theft, graft, collusion no matter how you see it.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Legal memoradum pointing out doing all this is totally illegal finally whacked him on his God

fearing noggin.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Well if that were the case he would have cancelled all the graft

am i missin' it?

[Nitram]

7. I suspect it was just some Montana cronies who disagreed with the decision.