Avalanche of Love by M.E. Tudor

Author:M.E. Tudor [Tudor, M.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance
Publisher: Tea Rose Books
Published: 2019-04-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Robin and Josie put together plans for the last hike on Black Bear Mountain. Brenda and Karen put off going to Hawaii for their honeymoon so they could go on this trip with everyone else. John, Tom, and Sally were all coming, as well as Josie and Martin McCormick, the president of Hikers Ltd., the company that publishes Back Lands magazine. Marianne was very nervous about meeting Martin for the first time and even more so about taking this trip with him because he was an expert on hiking. She still knew so little about hiking that she was afraid that she would look like an idiot.

Marianne had spent the week pulling out every trick she had up her sleeve trying to get more information about the Bankers Development Corporation and their interest in Black Bear Mountain, but even the most reliable gossips had a tight lip. The only thing she had gotten from anyone was that the shutdown of information had come from the very top of the company. Joseph Williamson is the president and CEO. He had at one time been the president of U.S. Builders Construction Company. That company specialized in building and developing resort communities around Lake Tahoe in California; Aspen and Vail in Colorado and a few places in Nevada and Wyoming that Marianne had never heard of before. Joseph sold his shares in the company and started BDC with a few friends, some known and some not. The silent partners were what interested Marianne. She couldn’t get anyone to give her names, but she was told that they were very powerful people.

Robin’s week had been a little more fruitful. She talked to the tribe's lawyers and geologists and found out that there had been a loophole instituted into legislation, unbeknownst to the public in general, that allows the government to contract private companies to drill for oil and natural gas on public lands in the time of an energy crisis. It was a piece of pork legislation that a president had slid into a bill that few people knew about. It was voted on during a time of crisis when oil prices were high but had rarely been used.

Native American reservations were not public lands and, the nation was not in an oil crisis; so, she wasn’t sure how BDC was planning on using the legislature to justify tapping into the oil and natural gas fields owned by the tribe, if that was its plan.

Her questions brought the matter to the attention of the Tribal Business Council and the Tribal Elders Council who immediately began investigating BDC. Robin hoped that put a little kink in their plans.

The council was having a meeting the day after the hiking trip would be over. Robin was hoping that Josie, and possibly Marianne, would be able to stay and sit in on the session. The Elders were especially particular about allowing non-tribal members to sit in on council sessions. Robin convinced them that Josie had the tribe’s

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