find the positive side ?

[Canuck_Buck]

The state of Florida has agreed to buy nearly 200,000 acres of land from a major sugar producer in a $1.7 billion deal to help restore the Everglades, Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/24/everglades/index.html

Crist said the purchase provides "a critical missing link" that will restore the flow of fresh water from Lake Okeechobee into the Everglades, the massive South Florida marshland.
"It is as monumental as the creation of our nation's first national park, Yellowstone," he said. "This represents -- if we are successful, and I believe we will be -- the largest conservation purchase in the history of Florida."
The 187,000-acre tract -- about 292 square miles -- comes from the cane fields of U.S. Sugar, which will be going out of business within six years as part of the deal, CEO Bob Buker said.

.....yeaaaah everglades, poor poor US Sugar ??

[Lanse couche couche]

If they could get part of that opened for hunting, it would be great fro the guys in south Florida that don't have much access to hunting ground.

[Charlie P]

It's weird that a sugar company would go out of buisness right now. Sugar is better to use in alternative fuel then corn etc.

[Lanse couche couche]

It is strange. Maybe they are gonna lower or eliminate the government subsidies that keep those sugar planters in their mansions.