Nightly Citizen

By Carl-John X Veraja

Mike Cheeseman, whom the News-Press reported was President of Trend Exploration LLC, which applied for the 1360 Oil Permit with DEP, said Hendry Oil Company is in charge of the drilling operations at the Old Corkscrew Plantation well.

“I have some royalty rights,” said Cheeseman, “I have no say so in what they do.”

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Dear Governor Rick Scott:

I am writing you to include you in an ever widening conversation about environmental concerns of Southwest Florida residents.

I have been covering (via blog) the plans to oil drill in the Everglades region.

I have friends on 24th Ave SW in Golden Gate Estates, where the exploratory well is getting dropped on a Florida panther refuge and over fragile aquifer systems. Your man, Ed Garrett, has evinced a lack of knowledge of or concern for the likely possible contamination of water, which the Big Cypress Swamp Advisory Committee admits as possible. They cited “permanent adverse impact” on the water, sheet flow, on vegatation and wildlife, with “special emphasis” on rare and endangered species of which the Florida panther is but one.

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