>it's pretty comical to think that conservationists could ever come up with enough money to seriously outbid oil and gas companies in lucrative areas. The only

>it's pretty comical to think that conservationists could ever come up with enough money to seriously outbid oil and gas companies in lucrative areas. The only reason this person was able to get this lease is that this area is uneconomic to produce from. Not a hard disagree, but it certainly gets easier the less economic it is to produce/extract from the area. A good example would be coal, where plants in the US are already being closed. Expensive? Yes. But probably cheaper due to market dynamics and, for someone interested in conservation/preservation, has more bang for their buck, given the miserable nature of coal.