There is a video of this at the link. Basically, the EPA has been making up data and false claims about the supposed environmental damage of this company. One researcher kept asking for the government's data. The government used data from Japan from 50 years ago and claimed this company was doing the damage. Amazing stuff to hear.
There was a thread started earlier on 401Ks and whether the gov't would seize the accounts. One person commented that it's a government program. That tells me that right now, anything linked to the government is fair game for them to take over - especially after seeing what happened to these people.
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Video: Feds shut down 100-year-old oyster company, destroy some lives and dreams
The Drakes Bay Oyster Company has been in a seven-year fight with the federal government and environmental groups over whether it’s 40-year lease would be renewed this week. The Lunny family, which owns the oyster farm, was among a group of families that sold their ranch lands to the National Parks Service in the 1970s to protect them from developers, with the understanding they would get 40-year-leases renewed in perpetuity. After buying and operating the oyster farm without incident— they were even featured as outstanding environmental stewards by the National Parks Service— the Lunnys learned in 2005 they were accused of bringing environmental damage to an area the NPS and environmentalists were anxious to designate as the nation’s first federally recognized marine wilderness.
Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar decided todaythe farm’s lease will not be renewed,
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