OSFR ADDRESSES REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL
On Feb. 25, 2016 the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council met in Lake City and had as their guest speaker Noah Valenstein, who is the executive director of the Suwannee River Water Management […]
SUPER TUESDAY WAS SUPER
Florida and your grandchildren won a battle today, Tue. March 1, 2016. Sen. Garrett Richter’s bad pro-facking, pro-oil industry, pro-money over environment SB 318 was withdrawn as he faced defeat. This in spite Florida’s Department […]
TAP DANCES & OTHER STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN TALLY AND CALL TO ACTION
Yesterday after a stress-filled two-and-a- half hours of talk about the pro-fracking SB 318, mostly by Sen. Richter and number-one fan Sen. Simpson, the room was left aghast by a 10-9 vote against fracking, but […]
SOLUTION IS OFFERED — SO FAR NO TAKERS
Fred Hiers of the Gainesville Sun has written an article on Tues. Feb. 23 2016 about Silver Springs, one of Florida’s greatest and most abused springs. FDEP spends a lot of money; plans and BMAPS […]
Sierra Club Defends Our Parks From Our DEP
James Call of the Tallahassee Democrat has written about the bills holding the fate of our state parks, which are currently passing through our Legislature. The Sierra Club is valiantly defending our parks from degradation […]
TOO MUCH CHLORIDE IN OUR AQUIFERS
The WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. has recently published an article on their website which contains many maps showing random well monitoring done in Florida by the DEP. The maps mainly show the amounts of […]
PRO-FRACKING STUDY DEFEATS ITSELF
Here is an article apparently written by the industry which is trying to promote fracking. The point of the article is that fracking wells do not leak methane any more than conventional gas wells. Their […]
FLORIDA FRACKING DISASTER— PAULA DOCKERY
The Tampa Tribune has published an editorial by ex-Florida legislator Paula DockeryFracking in Florida could be a freaking disaster By Paula Dockery | Guest Columnist Published: February 18, 2016 The oil fracking bill sailed through […]
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