Federal Government's Scheme to Take Two Million Acres of Dakota Farmland

The Federal government is proposing to take 2 million acres of land in North Dakota and Montana off "the market" and turn it into a grassland conservatory. Two million acres is twice the size of Vermont. That's a lot of farmland to be taken off the market, plus everything else that would be eliminated. It is entirely voluntary, but the result will be a checkerboard mix of conservatory and non-conservatory land. That's the end of any linear power line transmission grids or pipelines in the future. This is not rocket science.

Most of this would not affect the Bakken directly.