Posts Tagged ‘U.S. Sugar’
The Fix to our water crisis is complicated but doable
By Roger Williams September 28, 2016 Florida Weekly IT’S THE YEAR OF WATER IN FLORIDA. Unprecedented winter floods swept into Lake Okeechobee from the north, cascading into the delicate estuaries…
Read MoreGil Smart: Your activism is getting under their skin
By Gil Smart, Columnist TC Palm July 22, 2016 So our letter-writing campaign to Gov. Rick Scott is winding down, and in the next week or so we’re looking at…
Read MoreTo get rid of toxic algae, end farms’ special status
By Randy Schultz Sun-Sentinel July 6, 2016 As Florida’s latest environmental crisis has blossomed, Gov. Rick Scott has done what he does in every crisis: blame someone else. Martin County…
Read Moretcpalm.com analysis of U.S. Sugar ads reveal untruths
By Tyler Treadway of tcpalm.com U.S. Sugar Corp. in April launched a second media blitz — not to sell sugar, but to sell its positions on controversial Treasure Coast water…
Read MoreLost in translation: whatever happened to Amendment 1?
BY ROGER WILLIAMS Nathaniel Reed, a born-and-raised Florida boy, stepped out of his home on the southern terminus of the Indian Riverlagoon one early morning last week, looked up the…
Read MoreHuge Hurdle on Lease Terms of U.S. Sugar Land
U.S. Sugar would continue farming on most of land until 2030. By Christine Stapleton Palm Beach Post Staff Writer When South Florida Water Management District officials recently explained why they…
Read MoreEditorial: Florida lawmakers poised to make historic mistake
The editorial by The Miami Herald urges lawmakers to purchase over 46,000 acres of land from U.S. Sugar in an effort to help save the Everglades. The Miami Herald Florida…
Read MoreEve Samples: 18,000 Homes Proposed for Land Owned by U.S. Sugar & Ranching Family
Treasure Coast Newspapers For much of the past century, the biggest obstacle to restoring the flow of water from Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades has been the sugar cane fields…
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