COUNTY’S SPRING PROTECTION IS A SHAM

Editor, The Sun:

This letter is to express my opposition to the proposed rule change to repeal and replace the Wakulla Springs protection.
No, I’m not going to waste words trying to convince you that Wakulla Springs is a world class gem, in dire need of protection, or that our drinking water and sea food depend on this world class gem, because I believe that your minds are made up and this proposed change to the regulations is a done deal.  You have shown that, with the exception of Chuck Hess, you don’t care what citizens or others think about your atrocious environmental voting records, favoring developers and choking the county with subdivisions.
You sit through the meetings of irate citizens presenting valid information on why you shouldn’t approve them, and wait for their words to stop. Then you trample on Wakulla County’s Comprehensive Plan and invariably vote in the developer’s favor. More than any other commission over the past sixty years, your poor decisions have choked the county with buildings and created traffic nightmares. You’re squandering our tax money on a golf course so you can spray it with sewage, ignoring the fact that it will likely contaminate the waters of Spring Creek, increasing nitrates that are harmful to marine life and may cause red tides.
Of course you’ll deny it, and claim that your minds are open and that you’re not marionettes dangling on the strings of your puppet masters, so prove me wrong.  Vote against David Edward’s bogus proposed rule change to repeal and replace the existing Wakulla Springs protection.  His proposal protects nothing but the profits of the oil company by actually reducing the legal protections that we already have.

Jack Rudloe
Panacea