Author: Cal Mendelsohn

- Target: James. L. Robo, Chariman of Florida Power& Light
- Signatures: 22,080 of the 23,000 needed (we've got 22,080 signatures, help us get to 23,000 by December 31, 2014)
- housands of acres of rural ranchlands that are also prime Florida panther habitat could become the site of a massive Florida Power & Light Co. power plant. There are only 100 to 160 Florida panthers remaining in the wild, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
- The proposed plant with three generating units would be south of Lake Okeechobee in Hendry County and just north of the Seminole Tribe's Big Cypress Reservation. FPL has sunk close to $70 million in land costs into the site for the plant it has not definitely decided it will build.
Aside from further fragmentation of panther habitat, the plan for the plant raises the issue of water availability—the plant could use as much as 22 million gallons of water a day, imperiling local agriculture from nearby Seminole and other privately owned farms.
Destroying the environment for both people and panthers does not fit the public image that FPL should uphold as a responsible corporate citizen in Florida. Your customers and shareholders deserve to know that you will actively uphold and preserve values of the community and its natural environment for today and for future generations of Floridians. Sign the petition and urge Florida Power and Light to abandon their plans to build a powerplant on Florida panther habitat!