natgeographic In: Pollution and Overuse Threaten Florida’s Fragile Freshwater Springs | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Pollution and Overuse Threaten Florida’s Fragile Freshwater Springs

Mark Rains is dead wrong in his statement below–  the State has no intention of restoring our springs.  They plan to continue their current protocol which is a slow but sure death of our springs […]

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recyclesymbol In: California Aims to Ban Recycling Symbols on Things That Aren’t Recyclable | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

California Aims to Ban Recycling Symbols on Things That Aren’t Recyclable

      This endeavor is certainly progress toward alleviating  our terrible problem of plastic waste.  Taking the symbols off products which are not recyclable is good, but Nestle does something that is very sneaky.  […]

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Study Suggests Hydraulic Fracturing Can Impact Surface Water Quality–

Advocates opposing fracking will read this title and go “Duh…………….!”  They have been saying precisely this for many years.  Saying it to county commissioners, legislators and anyone who will listen. Now we see this in […]

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PineyPointtop DEP In: State Gives Manatee Draft Permit For Deep Well Injection Of Piney Point Water | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

State Gives Manatee Draft Permit For Deep Well Injection Of Piney Point Water

  Manatee County, aided and abetted by the main culprit in this mess — the DEP, has opted to take the easy way out and dump the unwanted process water which is atop the gypstack […]

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red tide NASA In: Polluted Waterways Force Tourists to Vacation Elsewhere | Our View | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Polluted Waterways Force Tourists to Vacation Elsewhere | Our View

The numbers prove that the policies of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis are failures, since they promote business at the expense of all else.  And lately the “all else” part has been our water-related recreation. […]

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frackingflorida In: Earthquakes on Record-Breaking Pace in U.S. Shale, Study Finds | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Earthquakes on Record-Breaking Pace in U.S. Shale, Study Finds

Now established as fact and associated with fracking.  The process water stays there as a poisonous legacy of our greed and stupidity for years to come as we continue to work towards making Earth uninhabitable. […]

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