Legislator: Agency’s Report On Fracking Leases Shows Country ‘Getting Ripped Off’

(December 10, 2020, 1:24 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee on Dec. 9 released a report by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) pertaining to lease revenues from hydraulic fracturing activities and criticized the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for engaging in a practice that allows companies to “lock up millions of acres of public lands for decades” while taxpayers “receive pennies in return.”...

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