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acid stimulation of oil drilling sites in the Big Cypress National
Preserve. The problem is simple: current regulations are outdated and
irrelevant. But powerful interests hold the mineral rights to much
of southwest Florida – interests that can buy politicians with petty
cash – and have done so in order to rush bills written by oil industry
lobbyists and lawyers through the current session in Tallahassee.

The Conservancy has been negotiating, unsuccessfully, with local
sponsors of two bills to put a temporary halt to the pell-mell rush until
a comprehensive study can be made of fracking in our ecologically
fragile western Everglades. Concerned about the possibility that
groundwater and aquifers will be depleted by the heavy water draw-
down from fracking and possibly polluted by the use of publicly
undisclosed chemicals, the Conservancy asked sound science be given
time to weigh in to prevent an economic and ecological calamity.

According to Hecker “I think we have brought people together
to understand the complex issues that face us. Public awareness leads
to good outcomes and if nothing else, we have developed common
sense solutions to this problem. All we need now is the political will
to approach this issue carefully and scientifically.”

The employment of sound science, regional land use planning
based upon ecosystem analysis, orderly development and preservation
of natural resources leading to common sense solutions for the
common good have always guided Conservancy policy choices…and
will do so for many, many years to come. For further information
please go to www.conservancy.org.

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