Tag: Lamar Fisher
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Waste Management really wants to keep dumping at an expanded Monarch Hill – Broward, Creek poised to go along
By Dan Christensen
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Waste Management wants deal with Broward to allow Monarch Hill dump to rise as much as another ten stories
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After Waste Management’s four-year push toward a significant expansion of its Monarch Hill dump was yanked from the Broward Commission’s Tuesday agenda, the immediate question was why? The answer now appears to be that the $20-billion, Houston-based garbage disposal company is looking to make a deal. -
Broward commission postpones high-profile vote on ’emotional issue’ of mountainous north county dump
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
CLICK THROUGH TO SEE 11 A.M. UPDATE To dump, nor not to dump. That is the question. At 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, giant Waste Management will ask the Broward County Commission to alter the county’s land use designation on the site of a decommissioned waste-to-energy plant on company property that could provide it with 24.2 acres of new dumping ground adjacent to its towering Monarch Hill landfill in North Broward. -
Florida ‘ethics’ watchdog digs up loophole, gives Broward’s Lamar Fisher a pass for $565K profit on land sales to agency he once led
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The state’s ethics enforcer looked into a complaint about Broward County Commissioner Lamar Fisher’s personally lucrative land deals with Pompano Beach, where he was a growth-loving mayor, and found nothing wrong. Complaint dismissed… -
Broward commissioner cashed in on land sales to Pompano CRA he recently led
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward County Commissioner Lamar Fisher and his partners reaped a $565,000 profit when they sold land to the Pompano Beach urban renewal agency that Fisher chaired for 11 years. -
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Port Everglades boss: We didn’t check whether dumped ship wastewater was contaminated
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Faced with an auditor’s findings that 2.5 million gallons of ship wastewater was dumped at Port Everglades, acting Port Director Glenn Wiltshire told county commissioners this week the port does not check to find out whether the wastewater is contaminated with hazardous substances.
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