{"id":7681,"date":"2006-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2006\/04\/01\/everglades-eco-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:35:29","slug":"everglades-eco-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/everglades-eco-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Everglades eco plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He blames this on the failure of port operators to respect the existing collective bargaining agreement, which has prompted some stevedores to withdraw labour.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Everglades Department is in the process of selecting a consulting firm to develop a new 20-year master plan to guide port growth and development. All the area&#8217;s fuel needs, much of its produce, retail commodities, construction products, and tourism from cruising, are dependent upon the port. Ideas thrown up by the workshop included reducing traffic congestion and emissions, protecting species and minimising habitat impact, including essential fish habitats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balancing economic growth with ecological concerns is never easy &#8211; this is the challenge discussed by Broward County Port Everglades Department staff, approximately 60 Broward County residents and environmental experts, looking to generate ideas about how the South Florida port can further its environmental stewardship. Participants in the Environmental Workshop attended a presentation about the ports past and current environmental programmes, and then broke into groups to discuss their ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7681\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7681"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}