Alert! Big Sugar are about to kill our last chance to save the Everglades, a national treasure...

[Playinghardball]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article17992718.html

http://www.savingflwater.com/petition

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. from article

Calling the deal too costly with too little benefit, the South Florida Water Management District board on Thursday effectively canned a 2010 deal to buy 46,800 acres of U.S. Sugar land that it once considered critical to restoring the Everglades and coastal estuaries.

Instead, board members voted to back a $5 billion restoration plan mapped out by Gov. Rick Scott for the next 20 years that does not include the land.

“If we can get $5 billion in state dollars and match that with $5 billion in federal dollars and have $10 billion, to me that is the big huge goal we have to go after right now,” said board chairman Dan O’Keefe.

The vote followed weeks of rowdy protests by environmentalists, topped by a Tallahassee concert headlined by Jimmy Buffett this week demanding the state buy the land. Located just south of Lake Okeechobee, the cane fields would help fill what supporters say is a critical need to store and move water to the parched southern Glades, a major goal in fixing marshes and reviving Florida Bay and the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article17992718.html#storylink=cpy

[hollysmom]

2. I think that it was too late already

with global warming going to drown it in sea water in less than 100 years and the pythons killing the wildlife, Fight here, or go to something that might actually last? It does not mean I would not like to stop them in theri tracks, I think sometimes when there are lots of worthy causes, you have to do triage.

[shenmue]

3. Signed and shared

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Somebody arrest those criminals!