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What will be the lesson for winegrowers from all this?
Will the officials we trust to protect our environment send a strong message to bad actors and end the practice of after-the-fact permits?
Or will vineyard developers learn that no matter how terribly they ravage the environment, they will still get their vineyard in the end?
Where is the outcry from others in the wine industry who say
For years, people have complained that big corporations get away with everything; that fines were just part of the cost of doing business and were factored into business decisions. Is the Sonoma County wine industry going to defend this environmental destruction, or show us that bad actors in their industry will not be tolerated and will be prosecuted?
Anna Ransome is the founder of Friends of Atascadero Wetlands.
they support sustainability?
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