Posts Tagged ‘Lake Okeechobee’
Plan that includes keeping toxic algae from waterways is now bigger and more expensive
By Mary Ellen Klas March 8, 2017 Miami Herald TALLAHASSEE A Senate plan to bond $1.2 billion in state funds to build a water storage reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee…
Read MoreSen. Negron: Plan to curb discharges by speeding up dike repairs won’t work
By Tyler Treadway March 2, 2017 TC Palm In a memo to fellow senators Thursday, Senate President Joe Negron dismissed a proposal to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges by holding more…
Read MoreEverglades Foundation: Restoration project would have $20 billion impact
By Susan Salisbury February 28, 2017 Palm Beach Post As the controversy over a proposal to purchase land for a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee continues, Tuesday the Everglades Foundation…
Read MoreEve Samples: Economic Council co-founder resigns, citing U.S. Sugar
By Eve Samples February 24, 2017 TC Palm Bud Jordan is not a radical. He has been an investment broker in Stuart for more than four decades. He’s a member…
Read MoreColumn: A Mistake by the lake — and how we now have a second chance for our water
By Dan Burkhardt February 14, 2017 Tampa Bay Times] Think of it this way. Seventy-five years ago, your neighbor had three chickens. Over the years one thing led to another,…
Read MoreCoastal Everglades, deprived of fresh water, near unhealthy ‘tipping point’
By Jenny Staletovitch February 13, 2017 Miami Herald SHARK RIVER At the bottom of the Everglades along the mouth of the Shark River, a towering mangrove forest stands in a…
Read MoreInvestigation: Human waste fertilizes farms, but fuels toxic algae blooms
By Lucas Daprile February 8, 2017 TC Palm The 317-acre farm was covered in a layer 2 feet deep with mountains piled 12 feet high and wet pools turning blue…
Read MoreAnalysis: EAA farmers refuse to sell land for Lake O discharges plan
By Isadora Rangel February 6, 2017 TC Palm A bill to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges hit a roadblock the day before its first hearing as 14 landowners announced Monday they…
Read MoreOur view: Legislature must seize historic opportunity on Lake O land buy
By TC Palm Editors February 2, 2017 TC Palm You can judge a man by the quality of his enemies, wrote author Oscar Wilde. On that basis, state Senate President…
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