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Protecting our Everglades
FPL's West County
The Loxahatchee Basin is home to one of the first Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) projects to get off the ground. The site is already riddled in scandal; now it´s becoming the waterfront property for the country´s largest fossil fuel power plant. We are ready to take our fight to a new level. Over the next year, while the pipeline and plant are under construction, we intend to launch a sustained campaign of direct action to bring attention to the greed of the energy industry and the failure of the government to respond, even within the bounds of its own corrupt system. We will set up camps on public land to monitor the progress of these projects and slow them down at every step we can. We will document their violations from the field (a tactic known as ground-truthing), we will stop them from harming a fragile ecosystem and its endangered species (including over 100 identified gopher tortoise burrows) and we will help turn the tide against the Energy Empire once and for all. Our camps will model the sustainable, cooperative and decentralized worldview that we believe in. We intend to reclaim the goal of restoration from the stranglehold of bureaucracy into the grassroots community... And y’all are invited! Protecting Our Beaches & Coral Reefs Everglades Earth First! is joining the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation in resisting the Reach 8 dredge & fill project proposed by the Town Of Palm Beach. The project would dredge silt from offshore and dump it on the beach, allegedly to combat shoreline erosion. The true effects of the project would include:
These dredge & fill projects, often called "beach renourishment", never work - shorelines naturally shift! In fact, such attempts at battling "erosion" has led to even more severe erosion, as the dredged fill is fine silt, not coarse natural sand, and easily washes away in storms - burying coral reefs and clouding up the waters. We are currently looking into joining the legal challenges that Surfrider Foundation has initiated, and are prepared to use direct action if such interventions fail. |
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