The Next New Land Grab… Oil and Gas Bidders Auction Underway in National Forests!

June 9th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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Oil and gas companies looking to lease swaths of U.S. Forest Service land holding the promise of shale gas deposits and other fossil fuel resources have made the Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern States Office in Springfield ground zero for a new land rush.

For years Forest Service land in the East was considered irrelevant
when it came to oil and gas leasing. But in the past year and a half,
the federal government has leased or scheduled for auction more than
384,000 acres at the request of private bidders, more than 10 times as
much land as it had leased in the previous two years.

The burst of activity has sparked a public debate over how to reconcile the different uses of national forests.

The office was scheduled to auction the rights to energy exploration
on nearly 90,000 acres of Forest Service land in four states — Alabama,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi — next week, but announced Friday it
would delay the Alabama auction in the face of widespread protest
there.

Meanwhile, officials at Virginia’s George Washington Forest are
embroiled in a controversy over whether to ban any future horizontal
drilling in the forest, as they proposed last year, or leave open the
possibility for companies in the future.

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