A Florida woman has gone head to head with a local judge who
has declared her efforts to live off the grid illegal and in violation
of local and international code ordinances. Robin Speronis, a 54-year-old former real estate agent currently living in Cape Coral in a small duplex, has her own solar panels and collects rain water for
her needs, She has even installed a simple outdoor shower in order to
be independent from the municipal energy and water supply. The local
power company and water supply surely have a hand in the Special
Magistrate Harold S. Eskin’s ruling that, although the regulations for
her city are redundant and unreasonable, she was in violation of city
code as well as the International Property Maintenance Code. Apparently
generating your own power and using rainwater or other natural elements
is not your sovereign right. Speronis using her own elbow grease to
live more in balance with nature is now part of a heated debate...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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