OSFR Op-Ed in Gainesville Iguana
Nestlé’s drain on Ginnie Springs By Merrillee Jipson and Jim Tatum, Board Members of Our Santa Fe River What’s wrong with bottled water and Nestlé? What’s right about it? We can think that maybe […]
Suwannee RiverKeeper Quarterman is Guest at OSFR Board Meeting
Guest speaker at the August OSFR board meeting was Suwannee RiverKeeper John Quarterman from Georgia. John gave a detailed run-down of the benefits and responsibilities of a riverkeeper, of which there are around 350 scattered […]
M-CORES Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance
Task Force Meeting, August 27, 2019, Tampa Convention Center. Presented slickly, forcefully, rapidly and misleadingly by Florida Department of Transportation, and aided and abetted by Bill Galvano and lobbyists friends who stand to get rich […]
SouthWings Overflight of Twin Pines Minerals
Just about straight north of Macclenny, Florida and just west of St. George, Georgia, and very near the Okefenokee Swamp lies a 12,000-acre tract of land owned by Twin Pines Minerals. This is where the […]
Suwannee RiverKeeper Guest Speaker at OSFR Board Meeting
Suwannee RiverKeeper John Quarterman will discuss the role of RiverKeepers at our monthly board meeting on August 28, 2019 at OSFR headquarters at 2070 SW CR 138, at 6:30 pm. Come out and join us […]
Water activist opposes Nestlé’s plan to bottle 1 million gallons a day from Florida springs
Tremendous capsule of information here about bottled water. Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson is an encyclopedia of facts about this egregious situation in Florida where we give away our water for a one-time charge of $115 for […]
Union County BOCC, August, 2019–
We continue to monitor the Union County commissioners’ meetings for updates, and anything new that might pop up. We are still awaiting the ruling on Union’s bid for dismissal on the legal challenge by […]
Words Matter
At issue on Tuesday, August 13, at the Suwannee River Water Management District Board (Board) was several people calling upon the Board to deny a permit renewal to Seven Springs Water Partnership to withdraw […]
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