About 25 miles from the proposed wells, around seven or eight wells pump day and night in the heart of the Big Cypress National Preserve, a wetlands that is part of the greater Everglades ecosystem.... Its because the rights to the oil under much of Big Cypress, and to some 800,000 acres of southwest Florida, belong to the descendants of Barron Collier, once the largest landowner in the state. The Collier Companies are behind the new plans to drill.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:03:35 +0000
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