Hunting Wife
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Au contraire my friend. They would most certainly not sell the mineral rights. Keep the federal minerals, sell the surface. They’d make way more money that way. Extra sweet deal- two revenue streams from one parcel.
Plus the big donor puppet masters get a huge development opportunity too. What’s not to love?
Unfortunately we’ve lulled ourselves into a false sense of security by telling ourselves a line of feel good stories about why this will never happen. The D’s are a bunch of greenies that would never go for it. It’s too politically toxic in xyz state. Etc. But we now find ourselves in a very real situation where we’ve kicked the can down the road budgetarily for decades, both parties conceivably have reasons to justify it, and ultra-wealthy zealots use their unlimited amounts of “speech” to steamroll the wishes of the public. So here we are. I’m not happy about it, but it’s not like anyone paying attention couldn’t see it coming.
