Rusty Bertrand on Nostr: "Some locals have expressed concern that land purchases by foreign billionaires can ...

"Some locals have expressed concern that land purchases by foreign billionaires can disrupt farming and local communities. Ratcliffe, however, has promised that his intention is to allow farming to continue on the lands he has purchased, offering the pastures and fields rent free to local farmers to cultivate."

Rent free farms to cultivate for a billionaire you say, hmmm. A feifdom perhaps.

"Ratcliffe's fortune is based in the chemical industry. He has come under fire in the UK for extracting natural gas with hydraulic fracking. Environmentalists have argued that fracking pollutes groundwater."

https://icelandinsider.is/uncategorized/british-billionaire-now-one-of-icelands-largest-landowners-owns-0-3-of-entire-island/