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There has been an oil scam near the Black Vine Swamp. The Red Diamond Energy Corporation (REDC) is an oil company. They're trying to find as much oil as they can without pumping the oil out of the ground. The government would pay them not to pump the oil. A man named Drake McBride is the head of the RDEC. He’s trying to make money off of a business, but it never works out. His next one is an oil company. He hires a man named Jimmy Lee Bayliss to find some oil for his company. Bayliss buys a 640 acres in the Everglades near the Black Vine Swamp. They owned section 21 next to section 22 which is owned by the state. McBride and Bayliss were hoping to get lots of oil out of it but they barely got enough oil to fill a “goldfish tank.” Bayliss has heard that there is a whole lot of oil in section 22 and “that's how the Section 22 scam had been born.” …show more content…

They planned on using pipes to take the oil from section 22 and bring it to section 21. First, they used pink flags to trace where they were going to put the tubes. They were trying to hide the pipes with big cypress trees. After they put the pipes in, the Truman middle school came to visit the Black Vine Swamp. Bayliss and McBride were too afraid one of the teachers or students would see the pipes so they made a fire to scare the school away and a panther away. There was an endangered panther near the Black Vine Swamp so they tried to scare the panther away because taking the oil out of the ground is not good for the panthers and if the state found out, they would get in trouble for endangering an endangered

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