Articles in Category: 'Kirk Fordham'

Rick Scott Deserves a Chance to Restart Everglades Restoration

By: Nancy Smith | Posted: October 8, 2011 3:55 AM

Hasn't the Florida Everglades had about all it can stand of an egocentric governor looking to build a legacy on the back of the state's greatest natural treasure?

TAGS: Acceler8, CERP, Charlie Crist, Everglades Foundation, Florida Everglades, Kirk Fordham, News, Northern Everglades, Rick Scott, U.S. Sugar Corp., White House, Columns

Everglades Proponents: Whining Is a Major Turn-Off

By: Nancy Smith | Posted: March 3, 2012 3:55 AM

Kirk Fordham's column in the Tallahassee Democrat on Friday, "Restoration is about more than just the Everglades," is a superb example of how environmentalists in this country overreach, blow it, and end up preaching to the choir.

TAGS: A.G. Holley, Dean Cannon, Everglades, Everglades Foundation, Jeb Bush, Kirk Fordham, Mike Haridopolos, News, South Florida Water Management District, U.S. Sugar Corporation, Columns

EPA Puts Out New Air Pollution Standards

By: Jim Saunders News Service of Florida | Posted: December 23, 2011 3:55 AM

TAGS: air pollution, Bill Johnson, Business, Cherie Jacobs, EPA, Everglades Foundation, Florida Power & Light, Gulf Power Co., Kirk Fordham, Lisa Jackson, News, Pam Bondi, Progress Energy Florida, Sandy Sims, Tampa Electric Co.

Oil and Gas Keep Pumping Next Door to 'Pristine' Everglades

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: August 31, 2011 3:55 AM

TAGS: Big Cypress, Collier Resources Co., Dave Mica, Everglades, Florida Petroleum Council, George W. Bush, Humble Oil, Kirk Fordham, Michele Bachmann, News, Oil Drilling, Pollution, Sunniland Trend, Politics

Lost Hope for the Everglades?

By: Nancy Smith | Posted: August 13, 2010 4:05 AM

More land to no purpose, more government waste in Florida. Thursday’s South Florida Water Management District vote was all that and so much more.

TAGS: Allapattah, Bill McCollum, Charlie Crist, Drew Martin, Eric Buermann, Everglades, Everglades Agricultural Area, Henry Dean, Jeb Bush, Kirk Fordham, News, Paula Dockery, Reservoir, River of Grass, SFWMD, South Florida Water Management District, Tom Kenny, U.S. Sugar, Columns