Feds scour Oil Patch for gravel parcel swap
October 31, 2012 at 7:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK The U.S. Forest Service is working to find a gravel-rich parcel somewhere in western North Dakota to trade with a Montana businessman who gave up a controversial plan to mine rock near the site of Theodore Roosevelt’s historic Badlands ranch. Continue Reading
You would think that in this day and age even the dimwits that run the government would be conscious about for all things…….Mineral Rights! DUH?
My question is…..what dimwit in the government got fired over this? Probably got promoted is more like it. And now the government folks are scrambling (well not really) to find a parcel of land with good gravel, rock to be made into gravel, to make up for their initial ‘monumental’ (pardon the pun here) screwup!
Don’t you just love the way the highly paid and forever highly compensated dimwits in the government get to keep being patted on the back for their selfless dedication?
GOT BAKKEN?
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