Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition: Updates on Scripps, Briger and the Ongoing Biotech Menace of Palm Beach County

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Updates on Scripps, Briger and the Ongoing Biotech Menace of Palm Beach County

Two new article were posted this week at ScrapScripps.info

They are essential reading for anyone looking to keep up with the latest news from the fight to protect what's left of the last remaining forests in the eastern corridor of South Floirda.

The Battle Brewing in Limestone Creek

Environmental Racism, Endangered Species and the Biotech Nightmare

The threat of Scripps Florida reveals a new tentacle, as the Hawkeye biotech development plans unfold before us. The Palm Beach County Commission is scheduled to make a final vote on the road expansion, which is needed for the development to move forward, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 9:30am, at 301 North Olive Ave (6th Floor).

[Help mobilize for this hearing, and educate yourself by reading the information at ScrapScripps.info.]

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Briger and the Building Boom on Hood Road

Land cleared on the south end of Briger, along Hood Road.

By now, many have noticed that there is land clearing and development going on at the south edge of the Briger Forest. As it stands, the southwest corner of the Briger is the future home of a Jewish Community Center (JCC).

The legality and ecological impacts of this work is yet to be determined, as research is currently under way to investigate whether appropriate permits and approvals exist for this project.

Nonetheless, we are getting organized to defend the forest from further incursion, in what the Palm Beach Post has called “The Building Boom on Hood Road.”

This Summer, the City of Palm Beach Gardens approved building plans for Franklin Charter School on the west side of the forest (also on Hood Road, west of I-95). This side of the forest was found by local volunteer research and the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council to be even wilder and less impacted than east of I-95.

Click here to see an aerial map of what they have in store for one of the last remaining forests in the eastern corridor of South Florida.

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a note on this webpage from PBCEC co-chair:

"With a healthy fusion of enthusiasm and skepticism, we have taken a small step towards establishing a consistent presence in the virtual world for the PBCEC. The site will contain a mixture of updates, announcements, meeting notes, calls to action, fund-raising pleas, and ranting from a local grassroots ecological perspective. Your feedback and input is valued, but please also keep this in mind (here is the 'skepticism' part):

Our power does not come from the internet, it comes from real-live actions, face-to-face support for each other at meetings and events and our physical presence in-the-face of ecological degradation..

So use this site as an opportunity to keep up with and support the PBCEC's efforts; but please do not use it as an excuse to keep yourself indoors staring at this electronic screen. In other words, i hope to see y'all out in the streets, where the real changes need to happen!"

from within the wild weeds of the saw-and-sea-grass roots,
panagioti tsolkas
sept. 23, 2007

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