I have attached a PDF image of a 1/2 page color ad that the “Environmental Plaintiffs” (Sierra Club, Manasota-88, and 3PR) ran in last Sunday’s Lakeland Ledger explaining our position in the Mosaic/Corps of Engineers federal lawsuit.
This was in response to a full page ad Mosaic had run the week before. Their position is that [...]

This afternoon (07/01/10) United States District Court Judge, Henry Lee Adams, ordered a 28-day restraining order on any mining activities at the South Fort Meade Mine Extension in Hardee County. A hearing for preliminary injunction has been scheduled for July 22, 2010 at the US Courthouse in Jacksonville, FL.
The Restraining Order follows a Complaint filed [...]

The Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled a two-day workshop at the Lakeland Center to begin “scoping” the upcoming area-wide Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
 The EIS is the scientific study directed by the Army Corps of Engineers that environmentalists have been requesting for the past several decades. It is meant to present data pertaining to all [...]

  from The DeSoto Sun
 09/01/2010
 By CLINTON BURTON
 Staff Writer
 DESOTO COUNTY — The Florida Department of Community Affairs has objected to proposed changes to DeSoto County’s Future Land Use map. The DeSoto County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously on May 25 to seek state approval of a map overlay that specifically defines where in the county [...]

Desoto County Board of Commissioners has posted the purpose of the September 28 meeting on their website: The plan is to adopt the generalized mining overlay and future land use map allowing Mosaic a firmer foothold in their county. They have placed this extremely important matter as the very last item of business on their [...]

(from DeSoto County website)
 
http://www.co.desoto.fl.us/images/bocc/Newspaper%20article%20response.pdf
 Once again our local newspaper and author Clinton Burton have provided the public with an article that distorts facts and paints a completely inaccurate picture. The context of the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) response, commonly referred to as an ORC, at times can be vague and easily misunderstood.
We know of this [...]

DCA Registers Objections to DeSoto County Mining Overlay
The Florida Department of Community Affairs, the state’s land planning and community development agency, published their response to DeSoto County’s proposed comp plan amendments and mining overlay on their website.
In a series of public hearings in May 2010,  the DeSoto Board of County Commissioners, in defiance of their [...]