BLM Proposes Oil and Gas Drilling Beneath Moab’s Cherished Slickrock Trail

[AngryScientist]

Just saw this:

https://www.adventure-journal.com/20...ickrock-trail/

and noted this part:

The BLM will be opening a public comment period on February 20.

Who knows how the economics would work out and what actual drilling would take place, but:

But now the BLM is proposing opening the majority of the area to oil and gas drilling. Sand Flats is 9,000 acres. The BLM’s proposal would lease 5,000 acres for drilling. A full two-thirds of the Slickrock Trail is in a proposed drilling parcel.

I plan to organize my thoughts, consolidate them in a professional manner and submit them during the open comment period, once i figure out how to do that.

Exploratory drilling, and potential subsequent resource harvesting on public land, especially iconic, unique landscapes as in MOAB, seems like a pretty bad idea to me.

thoughts?