also I realize this is from 2011 but it also never got resolved and a lot of people got screwed over as they were shoved out by big solar companies and other industries that wanted the land for their own developments.

Yeah I pitched a short film on this a while back but couldn't get funding.

Leaving the actual issue her aside, since I don't know enough about it to have an opinion, let's not forget that reason.tv is about as credible a source as, say, Vice (if not less credible), except with a hard line Libertarian agenda.

But yeah, there is probably some shitty dealing going on here, no doubt. Just like what happened with hydroelectric back in the day.

I'd like to something about the massive, ongoing water theft in central CA, too, where water is being diverted from poor regions to agribusiness upstream. That has been a huge problem for decades, probably generations.