Big Oil keeping billions of land-lease dollars owed to taxpayers

Big break for big oil, larger burden for taxpayers. Even as leaders grapple with the nation’s fiscal troubles and urge expanded drilling for natural resources, their failure to remedy the decades-old systemic shortcomings at the Interior Department may have allowed billions of dollars in royalties to slip away, increasing the burden on taxpayers. Center for Public Integrity 
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/04/15/4155/big-break-big-oil-larger-burden-taxpayers