Tag: lake okeechobee
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New Poll: Florida Legislators Reading List. PLEASE VOTE! and why reading matters.
A few weeks ago I put out a call for books that people thought would be good for our Florida Legislators to read. I got a great response. Thank you all so much. I put up my poll. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the 27 people who cared and took the…
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Florida! Let the Good Times Roll!
“*SEVEN MONTHS OF DRINKING WATER: The amount of Lake Okeechobee water drained east and west and out to sea was enough to supply about seven months of drinking water for the nearly seven million people in Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Water plants in southeast Florida churn out about…
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HERBERT HOOVER DIKE REHABILITATION STRUCTURE REPLACEMENT
I snitched this from my friend Tiki Steve. Tik and I also have a facebook page where we have been documenting for years! https://www.facebook.com/SaintLucieRiverofLight I had asked him a few months ago about what was going on in the construction world after I wrote https://cyndi-lenz.com/2015/06/10/acoe-and-the-herbert-hoover-dike-we-should-be-up-in-arms-together/ Are the people south of lake any safer today than…
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Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay?
Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay? As always, if you have something to add please add it. What was penny a pound? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Everglades “Restoration of the Everglades, however, briefly became a bipartisan cause in national politics. A controversial penny-a-pound (2 cent/kg) tax on sugar was proposed to fund some…
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Sugar U: Fanjuls some history and a little trouble in Paradise
Fanjul family history with addemdum on Marco Rubios relationship to them. Marco Rubio hates welfare but apparently loves corporate welfare.
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Sugar U: The US Sugar Corp
I wrote a bunch of Sugar U posts before we all were to attend The Big Sugar Summit which was sponsored by The Sierra Club in Florida. September 1, 2013,we had a rally in Clewiston Florida called the Sugarland Rally. Environmental activists and residents from Florida’s east and west coasts united in a peaceful demonstration…
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Michael Grunwald at the Elliot Museum
Author Michael Grunwald speaks at the Elliot Museum in Stuart, Florida to a sold out crowd.
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Green Toxic Algae. Poison Poised and ready to kill us.
9/23/2026 Even nowLake Okeechobee following water sample tests that detected harmful cyanobacteria toxins.
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Who’s going to be the party of clean water and no more discharges?
In Florida the party of big sugar is both parties and they equally don’t care about this issue.
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Solidarity Fish headed back to Tallahassee Solidarity y’all
Solidarity doesn’t mean we talk at you and you talk at us and we remain at this brick wall. Solidarity means working together for a real solution to end the Toxic Discharges, to save our drinking water, to save our everglades, to stop salt water intrusion.
