To: Eric in the Ozarks
How is it a shakedown when the feds control access and mineral rights, get money for the oil pumped up, then fail at the simplist bookkeeping task and fail to keep track of what land earned what, or fail to pay the land holders that they forced to accept federal trust status? This whole case started because a woman wanted to get paid the oil royalties she was due and the feds said what money?
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12/08/2009 12:35:18 PM PST by
kingu
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To: kingu
I misspoke. It's not a shakedown by American Indians. Indians have more than this due from mineral royalties. The shakedown is via the Department of the Interior and its bureaucrats who f**k up everything they come into contact with. Having worked in the coal industry in the 70s and 80s, I know many of us felt like Interior had painted a big bulls-eye on our industry with the federalization of mining law.
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