From a Bureau of Land Management press release:
BLM Seeks Public Comment on Public Lands Nominated for Oil and Gas Leasing
ELY, Nev.–The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District is asking the public to review and provide comment on parcels of public land nominated for potential oil and gas exploration and development. The public comment period concludes Monday, Sept. 18, 2017. America’s free markets will help determine if energy development on public lands is feasible.
The BLM received requests to lease 208 nominated parcels of public land, totaling 388,960 acres. Leasing would occur in areas where oil and gas development is allowed under the 2008 Ely District Resource Management Plan. The decision to offer parcels for lease does not authorize any drilling or development. Impacts of leasing the parcels are analyzed in the preliminary environmental assessment (EA), in accordance with the Oil & Gas Leasing Reform mandated in 2010. Lease stipulations identified in the Ely Resource Management Plan (2008) are attached to some parcels to help protect certain resources. The preliminary EA is available for public review at http://bit.ly/2vH21Ix.
Interested individuals should address all written comments to the BLM Caliente Field Office, PO Box 237, Caliente, NV 89008, Attn: Dec. 2017 O&G Lease Sale or fax them to the Caliente Office at (775) 726-8111. Comments may also be submitted electronically with the subject, “ATTN: 2017 Oil & Gas Lease Sale” to blm_nv_ely_oil_and_gas2017@blm.gov.
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
A Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale is scheduled on December 12, 2017. Additional information about the sale including the sale notice and parcel list will be posted to https://on.doi.gov/2nntQCJ as it becomes available.
For more information, contact the BLM Caliente Field Office at (775) 726-8100.
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Protect Mustangs is keeping the public informed
Protect Mustangs is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of native and wild horses. www.ProtectMustangs.org
Public Land is Public Land, not Land to remove Public Wildlife. All Wildlife needs to be protected, not removed for any and ALL LEASES. These Gas and Oil to include cattle destroy all habitats. Destroy water sheds, under ground water systems. Uses up water, waste what little water for wildlife of any kind. Salt wells destroy underground natural echo systems. Fracking adds more damage as the Public already knows. There is no such thing as a Safe oil or gas well. Land cannot be return to safe echo system. As damage from a spill caused by EPA in a Public waterway. Leave wildlife protected. Don’t remove the People’s Wild Mustangs.
To the BLM
This is their territory therefore these horses. Should not be rounded up and traded. For profit and destruction of the lands. Polluting the water many oppose this. I myself am one of them.