Tomorrow, the Governing Board of the South Florida Water Management District will consider a highly controversial proposal by FPL to amend its agreement with the District in the monitoring of water quality in the cooling canals at its nuclear facility at Turkey Point. The state's largest electric utility has been playing a complicated game of "hide the bacon" with respect to water quality pollution; specifically, the data and monitoring of a toxic salt water plume radiating toward farmland and residential areas and drinking water wells from cooling canals serving two nuclear reactors. For its own profit, the utility wants to hide the bacon on existing pollution before all hell breaks loose on monitoring and data related to pollution for two more planned nuclear reactors. Ratepayers are already paying more than $100 million for planning, whose initial versions have been judged by both county and state agencies to be incomplete. It is a sorry record that is being propelled by an expensive lobbying effort to promote nuclear power despite the terrible logistics and location of Turkey Point, on the edge of Biscayne National Park. The Governing Board should defer its decision until FPL complies with the reasonable terms of its existing 1983 agreement. This corporate giant should not be allowed to dictate new terms because it failed to keep its earlier promises.
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