Oil Shale in Utah

#26
#26
CSpindizzy said:
That's the thing. It doesn't matter if a landowner has oil in their yard and wants to explore. His neighbors will have more control on what goes on there with oil exploration than he does. Zoning restrictions, ordinances, environmental regs, and permit approvals all come into play. So again the NIMBY types will play their cards and you'll see that property rights are not as free as you think.
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You may have a point about that, because the environmental movement is essentially a covert effort to limit property rights in many instances. So you may have your finger on something. The only way the land owners could quiet these "protesters" down would be if they captitulated and bribed/paid off the trouble makers and made a token gesture about reserving a certain portion of land for "wildlife" or some other feel good/PC cause.
 
#27
#27
The land where the oil is basicly barren. Few people live there. Kind of like West Texas, miles and miles of nothing before you reach a town.
 
#28
#28
oklavol said:
The land where the oil is basicly barren. Few people live there. Kind of like West Texas, miles and miles of nothing before you reach a town.
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ANRW is barren also, and the environmentalists (not NIMBYs) are the ones that are killing the idea of drilling there.
 
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