The Bureau of Land Management wants Congress to allow it to charge new fees for inspections of natural gas and oil wells on public lands. According to BLM Director Neil Kornze, “We have a system that's very stretched” and could use the money. But if BLM is “very stretched” why are they adding to their workload by cooking up new regulations on hydraulic fracturing when states already do it? This is just one more example of BLM and the Obama administration working to increase the red tape and costs of producing energy on federal lands, and another example of their war on affordable energy.
