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I don't think this is a correct reading of the article. Craig Larson is the owner of Prairie Hills Oil & Gas. Nothing in the article suggests that he nominated
by martey 6y ago
I don't think this is a correct reading of the article. Craig Larson is the owner of Prairie Hills Oil & Gas. Nothing in the article suggests that he nominated the land in order to prevent oil and gas exploration.
I think you are confusing Larson with Terry Tempest Williams, who is mentioned later in the article as trying to lease land in order to prevent it from being leased by oil and gas companies. The article doesn't suggest that Williams and her husband plan to bid on rights in the upcoming auction, so it seems likely that Larson (or another oil and gas company) will win that auction.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoIn particular, Larsen is the one who nominated the land for being able to be leased. If he wanted to protect the land from being leased, the obvious way to do so was to simply not nominate it, so it wouldn't be up for auction, so nobody could bid on it. The fact that he nominated it at all means that he wants to bid on it. (I should say it means he means to bid on at least some of it. I could see wanting to bid on something specific, and nominating much more than that, so that anybody who wants to swipe the piece you're interested in doesn't know which piece to bid on.)
- ggm 6y agoI think you are confusing Larson with Terry Tempest Williams, who is mentioned later in the article as trying to lease land in order to prevent it from being leased by oil and gas companies Yes. That's precisely my mistake. Thanks for the correction.