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Competing offer for U.S. Sugar complicates Everglades restoration plan

Posted at 12:29 PM on 21 Nov 2008

Florida's intent buy out a giant sugar operation in a move to restore the Everglades is being complicated by a competing offer from the Lawrence Group, a Tennessee farming company.

sources: The Miami Herald, Nashville Business Journal, The Wall Street Journal
see also, in Grist: Everglades restoration going slowly, poorly, federal report says

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Get to the heart of the problem

What needs to be addressed with the sugar industry in Florida is the massive government subsidy that receive. Without money from my pocket growing sugar in Florida would not be a profitable business as sugar from other countries is much cheaper to produce, and not necessarily because labor is cheaper, but because it's just easier to grow.

IMHO, we should remove the subsidy and allow these farms to leave. Then the state/feds can pickup the land on the cheap.

by hipifreq at 10:31 AM on 22 Nov 2008

Once again farming and biodiversity

clash. Which one will win?

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

by biodiversivist at 4:10 PM on 22 Nov 2008

Just Take The Land

The government can always condemn the land and take it by eminent domain. So long as the government can show a public purpose, which restoration of the Everglades clearly is, this type of action cannot be stopped. The only issue in court would be the amount of money the government would have to pay.

by Wolverine at 9:39 PM on 24 Nov 2008

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