Tag: Florida Crystals
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‘Rescue the River of Grass’ campaign calls on Florida to buy 100,000+ acres of Big Sugar’s land
By Kailey Aiken
FloridaBulldog.org
While billions of dollars have been spent restoring the Everglades, one critical piece remains unfinished. Friends of the Everglades, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the Everglades, is calling on the state to acquire additional land south of Lake Okeechobee to store and clean water before it flows through the Everglades. -
Here are the Floridians who paid megabucks to dine with President Donald Trump
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Here are the Floridians who paid millions to dine with President Trump -
As U.S. Sugar quietly expands north of Lake Okeechobee, environmentalists fear Everglades cleanup losing out to farming
By Joel Engelhardt
FloridaBulldog.org
For months environmentalists have whispered that the Legislature’s push toward water storage north of Lake Okeechobee was driven by sugar interests. Behind their fear is the belief that an underground water storage method that got $100 million in the two past legislative cycles and is in line for another $50 million this year would do more to help farming than it would to help the Everglades. -
SFWMD’s last minute move to extend sugarcane lease triggers hearing demand
By Katherine Lewin
FloridaBulldog.org
Nineteen years ago, the South Florida Water Management District bought 16,158 rural acres south of Lake Okeechobee leased for sugar cane farming as part of the massive Everglades restoration project. But one night last month, just hours before the district’s morning meeting, a resolution was quietly added to the governing board’s agenda that would extend the lease to a subsidiary of Florida Crystals, delaying restoration for as long as eight years.
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