What's new with the Everglades Restoration? Stabbing People in the Back. By Geniusofdespair

I wonder why the Miami Herald didn't write an editorial? Isn't the Everglades more in Miami Dade than St. Pete? Well the Herald did print an Associated Press article on Nov. 24...I guess that should make us happy?

Editorial: St. Petersburg Times - Published November 27, 2007
Everglades warning senselessly silenced

Except for the implications to what has been described as an international biosphere, Richard Harvey could be just another name on the list of scientists the Bush administration has silenced. But Harvey has been removed as an outspoken voice in the Everglades cleanup, and Floridians deserve more than a bureaucratic shoulder shrug.
Records obtained by Times reporter Craig Pittman are not in dispute. Harvey, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's leading water quality expert in South Florida, was removed from the $10-billion Everglades cleanup project because he was skeptical and blunt. Most notably, he spoke his mind in a conference call last year that he didn't know was joined by a newspaper reporter.

In that call, Harvey said of a plan to pipe dirty Lake Okeechobee water into canals that flow into Biscayne National Park: "Once again we're routing dirty water. We are extremely concerned because the track record when the district and the corps move dirty water around is some resource gets trashed."

In January, Harvey's boss responded by removing him from the project with an e-mailed explanation: "I believe that your remarks compromise our ability to have an effective voice on critically important matters with regard to Everglades restoration." There is more, the editorial part!