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A major developer has just applied for a permit to drill for oil on 20,000 acres of the Florida Everglades—and if we don't fight back, it could actually get approved.
More than half of the Everglades have already been destroyed. We can't let the oil industry get their hands on the remaining critical habitat of endangered species like the Florida panther and American alligator.
Local activists have fought and won battles like this before, but going up against Big Oil, our friends at Environment Florida are asking people all over the country to help.
The Everglades are home to 67 threatened or endangered species, and 7 million people rely on the Everglades for drinking water. And while oil drilling has been going on in small sections of the Everglades for years, this would be a major new expansion into an area where drilling's never been allowed before.
Worse yet, this is far from the only threat the Everglades are facing. Big Oil is pushing to drill in other new parts of the Everglades as well. Florida's biggest utility company is trying to develop 3,000 acres of Everglades to build the largest gas-powered energy plant in the country.
America's Everglades belong to all of us—and we all have a responsibility to protect the panthers and sea birds that call it home.
July 2015 Sources:
Search for Everglades oil could move near Broward suburbs, Miami Herald, July 10, 2015
Plan seeks more oil drilling in Big Cypress, Sun Sentinel, June 10, 2015
Florida Power and Light asks Hendry County to change its comprehensive plan, Florida Neszap, July 9, 2015
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