[familyop]

Not only is it dirty oil and difficult to harvest, the whole Range is occupied by bipartisan NIMBYs, who control the business and politics of this nation. IMO, go for it, but the elite folks aren't going to allow it. For example, efforts of at least some uranium companies to test drill in some of the most sparsely populated counties in Colorado over the past few years have been stopped. Same goes for at least some natural gas companies.

[okie01]

the whole Range is occupied by bipartisan NIMBYs, who control the business and politics of this nation.

Where were these "bipartisan NIMBYs" when the Powder River Basin became the world's largest strip mine?

[Sea Parrot]

“For example, efforts of at least some uranium companies to test drill in some of the most sparsely populated counties in Colorado over the past few years have been stopped.”

I well recall the thriving uranium mining that was being undertaken at Jeffery City, WY in the early 1980s. Things were booming until Ten Mile Island and Jane Fonda brought it all down almost overnight. I last saw Jeffery City a few years ago and it was dead and a modern ghost town.