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The Bureau of Land Management says its
200-man armed siege of the Cliven Bundy ranch in Nevada
is all about protecting an "endangered tortoise." But a Natural News
investigation has found that BLM is actually in the business of raking
in millions of dollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies that
engage in fracking operations.
This document from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology(1)
shows significant exploratory drilling being conducted in precisely the
same area where the Bundy family has been running cattle since the
1870's. The "Gold Butte" area is indicated on the lower right corner of
the document (see below), and it clearly shows numerous exploratory
drilling operations have been conducted there.
What's also clear is that
oil has been found in nearby areas and possibly even within the Gold Butte area itself.
It
is, of course, customary for the U.S. government to bring armed
soldiers to an oil dispute. (Operation "Iraqi Freedom" for starters...)
Heavily armed snipers, helicopters and militarized soldiers have never
been invoked over tortoises. (Anyone who thinks this siege is about
reptiles is kidding themselves.)
Here's the map showing the oil
exploration conducted on the land where Bundy runs his cattle (all the
red crosshairs are oil and gas exploration drilling operations):
BLM collects $1.27 million in shale fracking leases
The Bureau
of Land Management has just cashed in with $1.27 million in oil and gas
leases in Nevada. This was just reported two weeks ago
in ShaleReporter.com, which states:
U.S.
Bureau of Land Management geologist Lorenzo Trimble tells the Las Vegas
Review-Journal the Elko County oil and gas leases sold Tuesday for
$1.27 million to six different companies. The auction took place in
Reno. The leases are near where Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. wants to
drill for oil and natural gas on 40,000 acres of public and private
land near the town of Wells. The Review-Journal reports the project
would be the first in Nevada to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking,
to extract oil and gas from shale deposits.
The way this works, of course, is that BLM runs
land theft operations
by claiming they are "managing" the land and thereby kicking everyone
else off it. They then invoke a reptile, an owl, a bird, a snake or some
other animal which they claim to be "saving," even while they are
stealing and destroying hundreds of cattle belonging to a private
rancher trying to make an honest living in a nation where productive
Americans are increasingly branded "enemies of the state."
Once
control of the land is established via court order or by bringing armed
men with automatic weapons, BLM then turns around and
leases the land to fracking companies
who proceed to exploit the land using hydraulic fracturing techniques
that inject toxic chemicals into groundwater supplies (and have been
linked to earthquakes). The money collected by the BLM is then used to
increase BLM salaries and bonuses.
In
essence, the BLM is a criminal mafia racket, and Cliven Bundy just
happened to be in the way of their next target, the Gold Butte area of
Nevada.
That is why they brought hundreds of heavily armed men to a "save the tortoise" operation.
"Endangered
tortoises" is merely the government cover story for confiscating land
to turn it over to fracking companies for millions of dollars in energy
leases. In truth, the BLM was rapidly euthanizing these very same
reptiles
en masse last year.(2)
As part of its police state intimidation to control the land, BLM
unleashed attack dogs on a pregnant woman.
See the brutality invoked by the BLM against peaceful protesters in this video of a near-riot just outside the Bundy ranch:
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