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...land for six years. Environmentalists hope that eventually, the area will become storage reservoirs, treatment marshes and perhaps even a flow-way reconnecting the lake to the Glades. This could help re-create the original north-south movement of the River of Grass and eliminate damaging pulses of excess water into coastal estuaries. That would be good news for panthers and gators, dolphins and herons, ghost orchids and royal palms...
...ramifications. Florida Crystals, the agribusiness controlled by the well-wired Fanjul family, would be all that's left of Big Sugar. Founded by General Motors executive Charles Stuart Mott in the Everglades back in 1931, U.S. Sugar currently produces 9% of America's sugar - thanks to a massive federal water-control project that its executives helped design and a lucrative federal sugar program that artificially boosts its prices. The company has always been popular in its headquarters of Clewiston ("The World's Sweetest Town"), but labor activists have accused it of mistreating its workers and environmental activists constantly blame...
...Sugar did block the flow and suck the water out of the Everglades, converting its saw grass marshes into cattail clumps and inspiring one of the most contentious pollution lawsuits in U.S. history. But ever since the litigation was settled in the mid-1990s, Big Sugar has done an impressive job of cleaning up its act, and development has become a much greater threat to the health of the Everglades. Still, U.S. Sugar executives have often warned that they might build condos someday, and environmentalists have dreamed of locking up their land...
Concerned that the chemical was potentially harmful to the water supply or neighborhood pets, Sloan said he contacted Edward G. LaFlore, the principal mitigation manager for CSL Consulting LLC—a company that works with Harvard on program management and construction public relations services...
...after receiving numerous complaints from residents, the dust problem will now be controlled by other means, including water trucks and street sweepers, according to LeFlore...