BLM Lease of Scout Ranch Area

The Bureau of Land Management is "responsible" for facilitating mineral rights.  The following was submitted early on in a public comment process.  It was basically ignored and the leasing is going forward on East Spanish Peak, in spite of a recent catastrophic forest fire at the proposed lease, which makes the location even more fragile: 

We learned that the BLM is considering mineral leasing land on East Spanish peak. We can not imagine that anyone would seriously consider fracking for shale oil in such a location. However if there is shale oil beneath the Spanish Peaks, then the BLM should factor in the tremendous amount of truck traffic and high pressure, high powered pumps and compressors, huge volumes of water, fracking materials, and produced waste water and petroleum.  There would be fluid transmitting lines, valves, tanks, plus semi trailer trucks pounding up and down dusty county roads, past residences, in the midst of hikers, and Boy Scout Ranch campers.  By probability alone, there will be accidents, leaks, and human error. As far as the long term impacts, human error and accidents of a single oil spill or poisoned water storage breech would result in irreparable damage to the forest floor, elk calving habitat, and down slope camp and residential water supplies. The heavily timbered nature of the area was not placed there for screening of industrial activity, and to suggest that this is the case as stated in the initial BLM environmental assessment is astounding.  The leasing and development of parcel #6657 would alter the physical setting of the area and the quality of life during drilling operations, and long thereafter, given the inevitability of human error and accidents when working with machinery capable of shattering solid rock to squeeze out oil.