This is happening with republican president & governor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/us...gewanted=print
June 25, 2008
Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore Everglades
By DAMIEN CAVE and JOHN HOLUSHA
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. — In a deal that environmental groups said would be the largest ecological restoration in the country’s history, a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corporation.
The intention is to restore the Everglades by restoring the water flow from Lake Okeechobee, in the heart of the state, south to Florida Bay. That flow had been interrupted by commercial farming and the Everglades have suffered as a result.
Under term of the tentative deal, U.S. Sugar would continue farming and processing for six more years before closing the business and allowing 187,000 acres of land to return to its natural state. For its part the state would pay U.S. Sugar $1.7 billion.
Governor Charlie Crist said the deal was “as monumental as the creation of the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone.”
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