Twin Pines Minerals Meeting a Disappointment
Five OSFR members, all riparian landowners, four of whom were board members, made the trip to Folkston, Georgia on Tuesday, August 13, to give input to Twin Pines Minerals, who wants a permit to mine […]
Petition: Don’t let Nestlé pump Ginnie Springs
Corporations like Nestlé should not be allowed to profit from public water. Nestlé wants to drain over a million gallons of water per day from Florida’s Ginnie Springs. They will bottle this water to […]
Bottling permit risks harm to environment – Gainesville Sun Editorial
The Gainesville Sun has the following excellent editorial in today’s August 11, 2019 newspaper. Nestle claims they only bottle water from sustainable sources. It is a fact that current usage of the Santa Fe […]
Nestlé asking to pump millions of gallons of bottled water from Ginnie Springs
We must advise Nestle that the water from Ginnie Springs is not being managed in a sustainable way. The flow is way down from past years and it is still declining, it is not improving. […]
Silence Continues in Bradford County
At the Bradford County BOCC meeting on August 5, the silence on HPS II continued. As far as we know, progress towards acquisition of the HPS II permit is on hold awaiting the report from […]
Continuance of Public Hearing: Nestle Waters North America Inc., Site Plan Review
We have spoken recently of the permit renewal submitted by Seven Springs Water to ship water to Nestle at their Ginnie Springs plant. This is the meeting where the Gilchrist County Commission approved the permits […]
Santa Fe River Bill Of Rights
SAFEBOR, (Santa Fe River Bill of Rights,) is a movement by local environmentalists to establish an amendment to Alachua County’s charter to provide rights to the river to protect it from harm. This is […]
Retail federation plans to sue Gainesville
Nothing is easy. Gainesville will be sued by the Florida Retail Federation because of “increased costs.” Yes, it will cost to clean up the environment, and we must all pay more. Clean water, clean air […]
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