07 Sep

Posted at 13:46h in News

Last we heard, the chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Rodney Barreto, backed down from developing submerged acres he owns in the Lake Worth Lagoon off Singer Island. The gubernatorial appointee and uber-lobbyist based in Coral Gables planned to sell the land right away, he said in March. He insisted he didn’t intend to build the 15 mansions, 330 condos and marina that public filings indicated he did....

26 Jul

Posted at 14:02h in News

When a plan was inked more than 20 years ago to undo the damage inflicted on South Florida’s prodigious ecosystem, Palm Beach County shared prominently in the environmental largesse. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, included hundreds of millions of dollars to store fresh water in wells and reservoirs and treatment areas countywide to recharge groundwater and keep saltwater intrusion at bay....

16 Jun

Posted at 14:12h in News

Recently, nearly 10% of Palm Beach County’s population got a 'taste' of how toxic cyanobacteria cylindrospermopsis in our drinking water impacts the region’s economy — not to mention our daily lives. Potable water has been restored to the residents of Palm Beach, South Palm Beach and West Palm Beach after toxins caused by blue-green algae were found in the water supply, but the threats to the county’s water remain....

02 Mar

Posted at 14:38h in News

Legal moves by Florida’s top wildlife official for the right to develop submerged land he owns in the Lake Worth Lagoon drew blistering criticism from two dozen people at a meeting Friday of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)....

23 Feb

Posted at 16:36h in News

Florida's top appointed protector of wildlife wants to make millions by dredging up and filling in acres of the wildlife-filled Lake Worth Lagoon. Rodney Barreto, an influential lobbyist who chairs the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is pressing legal action to let his company fill, dredge and build hundreds of condos and houses on mostly submerged land off Singer Island. The company, Government Lot 1, LLC, based in Coral Gables, seeks to reopen and expand upon a 1990 circuit court order that gave previous owners the right to fill but not dredge the 19-acre site off Singer Island without requiring permits...