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Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales - WyoFile (wyofile.com)
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[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

THIS SENTENCE, is corruption in plain sight to such an absurd degree that we are expected to be nonchalant in our acceptance of it. I'm sure a lot of people (present company excluded) drove right on by this sentence without stopping to marvel at how at ease big oil and gas are with expecting laws to favor them:

“So rather than wait for that to happen, we thought, ‘Well, let’s step in now and let’s put in place a bill that acts as a deterrent to doing that,” Petroleum Association of Wyoming President Pete Obermueller told WyoFile.