Everglades oil drilling

Environment

While one company challenges the denial of its oil drilling application in Big Cypress Swamp, another withdraws its application

News Service of Florida

The Department of Environmental Protection in November denied a permit that Trend Exploration sought to drill an exploratory well to seek oil reserves.
Environment

A company that wants to build an oil well near the Everglades is getting plenty of opposition

Steve Newborn

The oil well would be build in the heart of one of the state's biggest agricultural areas.

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