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You Want the Oil Underneath the National Park? Sure, That’s Cool.

By Rocky Thompson on September 29th, 2011
Photo by IvoShandor

Photo by IvoShandor

A U.S. court has ruled that the National Forest in western Pennsylvania can be mined for oil and gas. Why? Because the National Forest Service only has rights to the land’s surface, not what’s below it. Ahh, they got the oil and gas on technicality. So, I wonder, how will the companies mine these resources that are below the national park without putting mining equipment on the national park’s surface? Well, maybe they’ll just rent a campsite for the season and drill in the middle of a campground.

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11 Responses to “You Want the Oil Underneath the National Park? Sure, That’s Cool.”

  1. Joe September 29th, 2011 at 1:19 pm

    Maybe they should as the PEOPLE since its our land. Well technically its the Indians but I guess we’ll just continue to rape and pillage everything till its all gone.

  2. 'MERICA September 29th, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    I can’t wait until some oil company buys the mineral rights to my property and gets to bulldoze my house to get to them.

  3. Patrick September 29th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    Write a comment…I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!!!!

  4. Brian September 29th, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    Just job create-ers being job create-ers.

  5. Dan September 29th, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    Hydraulic fracking – The drill site will be outside park boundaries, they will drill down about a mile and do a 90 degree turn entering underneath the park boundaries. As a result your local park water fountain will be able to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01EK76Sy4A&feature=related

  6. mark September 30th, 2011 at 10:28 pm

    It is a national forest and not a national park. Without oil and gas, we could not drive our nice mini vans and suvs to our beautiful forests and parks.

  7. Ben October 2nd, 2011 at 8:29 am

    But Mark then our national parks / forests won’t be the reason we all go to them in the first place. They were set aside FOR THE PEOPLE from the beginning because our gov’t decided these places were too damn beautiful to let anyone else get their hands on. I agree we need oil and gas to visit the places and for our society to function in general but we do not need to find it in places set aside to never be used in such a manner.

  8. Brian October 3rd, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    I agree with Mark. If we don’t have gas we can’t get to beautiful places, because oil and gas are needed for transportation. It is about time that we accepted the fact that we are at war and gave up on beautiful places. I say so long as the burgerking will allow me to sleep in their dumpster and eat discarded burgers, and that’s a big IF, then big oil can have their parks/forests/”wilderness”. As far as I know the outside if full of bears and not full of delicious hamburgers.

  9. Ben October 3rd, 2011 at 6:18 pm

    Anyone here seen the movie Idiocracy? It’s starring Brian and Mark.

  10. joey October 3rd, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Rocky, I realize you’re just a blogger and not a journalist, but sometimes your lack of understanding on outdoor issues is incorrigible. Your story is about a forest, not a national park. The national park and national forest services have entirely different goals (i.e. national forest land is used for activities like mining, logging and ski resorts all the time, whereas the point of national park designation is to protect the land). Your use of “national park” in your headline and blog makes you look like a goddamn fool.

  11. Brian October 4th, 2011 at 6:58 am

    Thanks Ben. It’s always nice to hear someone call you a star in a movie.