By STACEY SINGER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 28, 2008 Standing on his skiff, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II grew more confident with each cast into the salty shallows of Florida Bay – snook or no snook.His goal was more ambitious than catching a few fish. He hoped to persuade Florida’s [...]
Florida to pay U.S. Sugar $1.75-billion for 187,000 acres in Everglades
June 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In a surprise move environmentalists call “breathtaking,” U.S. Sugar Corp. plans to announce today a deal to sell the state 187,000 acres in the Everglades for $1.75-billion. If approved, it would be the largest conservation purchase the state has ever made, helping restore the ecosystem’s natural flow and providing a quantum leap to the effort [...]
