Tag: Okeelanta Corporation New Hope Sugar Company
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SFWMD’s last minute move to extend sugarcane lease triggers hearing demand
By Katherine Lewin FloridaBulldog.org Nineteen years ago, the South Florida Water Management District bought 16,158 rural acres south of Lake Okeechobee leased for sugar cane farming as part of the massive Everglades restoration project. But one night last month, just hours before the district’s morning meeting, a resolution was quietly added to the governing board’s…
