Sentences with phrase «porcupine tract»

This is for the North Porcupine tract, and like the South Porcupine tract that BLM leased to Peabody last month — even though this coal is owned by you and me — the lease was drawn up by Peabody itself for its own profit.

If the BLM proceeds with the auction of the North Porcupine tract Thursday, they can expect to be confronted by protesters.

In fact, that's just what happened with the South Porcupine tract; Peabody's initial offer of just $ 0.90 per ton was rejected as too low by the BLM — so they simply held another auction a few weeks later and accepted Peabody's offer of $ 1.11 per ton.