Category: florida
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Call to Action: Ban Fracking in Florida: CRITICAL
Guest blogger today This is from my friend Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson. Call to Action: Ban Fracking in Florida: CRITICAL, please share… Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:30 pm in Tallahassee. Please make phone calls or attend Senate Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee. Frack bill, SB 1582 will allow well operators to hide the chemicals they use from the public. Frack…
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Beach Rally and Patrick Murphy gives President Obama a bottle of dirty river water.
President Obama came to town so we had a rally and Congressman Patrick Murphy greeted him with a bottle of dirty river water.
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Attention President Obama! You’re our only Hope!
President Obama came to town to gold and we wanted to make our presence known.
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Florida Legislature Steals Amendment One Money
It’s been 10 years since Floridians overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure to generate upward of $1 billion annually for land conservation until 2035. The Florida Wildlife Federation (FWF) and other state conservation groups noticed immediate misallocation of these critical funds and began a long legal battle with the Florida legislature in 2015.
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Attention Congressman Patrick Murphy! Bring us Attorney General Eric Holder!
Keri West, River Warrior extraordinaire and fellow documenter asks our Congressman at the time, Patrick Murphy to bring the US Attorney General because honestly we could not believe what was being done. There is permanent damage from the Toxic discharges to the Indian RIver Lagoon and the State of Florida has been negligent to our…
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Representative Steve Crisafulli We need to buy the land.
This is the story of the myth of Death Mermaid and how she showed up to Hamilton Disston. She also showed up in 1969 to help kill the Everglades Jetport and later at SFWMD to help stop the discharges.
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Kevin Powers “We’re your best friends!” us “hahahahahaaaa”
When Kevin Powers told us SFWMD was our best friends and we all laughed. Why? Because they took their direction from Governor Rick Scott and he did everything he could to deflect the issue. He was seemingly ok with the destruction of the most biodiverse estuary in North America.
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The Murder of the Indian River Lagoon and St Lucie RIver
The recently released water study by the University of Florida states that even if all of the planned projects north of the lake are completed we will still have so much phosphorus in the lake that we won’t be able to do anything but discharge it into the coastal estuaries in wet years.
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We Demand you stop the discharges to the Northern ESTUARIES
Like everything else in this movement something that started off to save our Indian RIver Lagoon morphed into saving Caloosahatchee River, saving the Everglades, and saving the water of South Florida.
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SFWMD They say constraints. We say buy the land.
We were told if we clapped, or were disruptive they would be removed by a deputy. So we raised our signs and by doing so made the most haunting sound. It was sad and hysterically funny at the same time.
