Julie Hauserman
@jhauserman.bsky.social
Writer lady. Fan of #Florida. Reporter for decades. Opinions mine. Check out my book, Drawn to the Deep, biography of a man who swam inside the planet - NatGeo underwater cave explorer Wes Skiles
From Politico- "The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is recommending gov, and Cabinet approve a request by Roberts Capital Ventures to amend the conservation easement... The firm would pay the state $4 million after the state paid nearly $6 million to preserve the land in 2016."
September 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From Politico- "The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is recommending gov, and Cabinet approve a request by Roberts Capital Ventures to amend the conservation easement... The firm would pay the state $4 million after the state paid nearly $6 million to preserve the land in 2016."
These mitigation banks work like this: a developer can trash a wetland and then just pay a fee to buy "credits' to supposedly restore a wetland somewhere else. The program is a sh*t show - but this is new territory.
September 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
These mitigation banks work like this: a developer can trash a wetland and then just pay a fee to buy "credits' to supposedly restore a wetland somewhere else. The program is a sh*t show - but this is new territory.