The Dickinson Press is reporting:
“This is an insult to landowners,” Bowman said. “The biggest part of
the area they are looking at is in my district. I can say this: If they
ram this down our throats, we’ll shut down everything in western North
Dakota. I’ll get a group of landowners together and shut down hunting on
a huge area of private land. You can call me a radical, but that might
be the last alternative we have.”
Opponents of the potential
policy argue that it would be an overreach of government control over
private property similar to an eminent domain power play. Backers of the
proposal say it’s a needed measure to protect certain North Dakota
landmarks and wild places from an onslaught of development of lands
above the Bakken oil shale in the western part of the state.
I think the farmers, hunters, and everyone else realize that once the extraordinary sites is approved, the oil and gas industry won't be the only thing banned from the sites -- everything will be subject to approval, even farming, hunting, windmills. Oh, windmills? -- no, they will be fast-tracked.
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