evidence: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that he had reached a deal with a private company to purchase Everglades acreage on which it had proposed to drill a wildcat well in an attempt to find oil. [...] Despite concerns raised by activists alleging potential groundwater impacts from hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," Kanter said that it had no plans to use a frac job on this well, given the Sunniland’s fairly high degree of natural porosity. Concerns over Kanter’s drilling plans helped drive an effort in the state legislature’s 2019 session to move a bill that would ban fracking in the state of Florida, SB 200, but the bill ultimately failed. For his own part, Governor DeSantis - one of the most popular governors in the U.S. according to recent polling - expressed his own opposition to fracking operations in Florida during his successful 2018 election campaign. The deal he announced on Wednesday helps him to keep that campaign pledge.