The DCA takes part in the phosphate mining process – reviewing all county comp plan amendment proposals and allowing the public their opportunity to comment….
Community Affairs Secretary: There Goes the Scapegoat
http://www.theledger.com/article/20101209/EDIT01/12095006/1036?p=all&tc=pgall
Published: Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 12:28 a.m.
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They won’t have Tom Pelham [...]

As President of 3PR I would like to respond to this email (below) from Frank Kirkland which I consider a cynical misrepresentation of the position that the environmental plaintiffs have taken in the law suit and mediation process.
I feel confident that the partial settlement that we negotiated with Mosaic allowing their workers a 4-month reprieve [...]

Environmentalists Say Phosphate Mining Threatens Florida Wetlands, Farmland
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By MIKE ESTERL
Mike Esterl/ The Wall Street Journal
Phosphate is extracted at Four Corners Mine in central Florida.
WAUCHULA, Fla.—The phosphate mined for more than a century here in central Florida to make fertilizer has yielded thousands of [...]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article1135319.ece
By Steve Huettel and Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writers
In Print: Sunday, November 21, 2010
FORT MEADE — After a hitch in the Navy and work handling psychiatric patients in lockdown, Billy Griffis held a prized job in this corner of rural Central Florida. • Mosaic Fertilizer paid him $42,000 last year as “wrencher” laying big [...]

Hold your nose and check out how Mosaic’s new “Streamsong” resort is being marketed….
http://www.streamsongresort.com/
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Welcome to a new kind of resort. Miles from what you might expect to find in Central Florida, Streamsong is the ideal destination for relaxation, restoration and, most of all, renewal. Here, the [...]

We’ve all seen this news. I’m sending the article from the Tampa Tribune because they dared to print my opinion on it. Read on….
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/nov/17/171941/mosaic-to-transform-polk-mine-site-into-luxury-res/news-money/
Mosaic to transform Polk mine site into luxury resort
An artist’s rendering of the finished Streamsong resort that is being developed by Mosaic.
Staff photo by COREY BECKMAN
An artist’s rendering of the Streamsong resort [...]

http://www.examiner.com/golf-in-national/architects-doak-coore-crenshaw-design-courses-at-new-fla-resort
(This article really should be seen on-line, so you can enjoy the photos of the post-mining landscape)
Architects Doak, Coore-Crenshaw design courses at new Fla. resort
• November 16th, 2010 12:57 pm ET
Tom Doak at the Mosaic mine site. That’s a proposed par 3 in the background.
Photo: Photo by Dave Seanor
Confirmation of a loosely guarded secret comes tomorrow [...]

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2010/11/15/united-maritime-continues-dispute-with.html
United Maritime continues dispute with Mosaic
Tampa Bay Business Journal – by Margie Manning
Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 5:52pm EST – Last Modified: Monday, November 15, 2010, 5:52pm EST
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United Maritime Group LLC and The Mosaic Co. remain at odds over the impact of a cutback in Mosaic’s phosphate mining operations in central Florida.
Mosaic [...]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-05/morocco-plans-800-acre-resort-hotel-funded-by-fertilizer-cash.html
By Brendan Borrell and Daniel Grushkin – Nov 5, 2010 11:15 AM ET
Béatrice Montagnier, a hotel specialist with consulting firm Horwath HTL, snapped pictures of an old warehouse and a jumble of sun-baked two-story concrete block homes outside the Moroccan town of Khouribga. It was May 2009 and Paris-based Montagnier was scoping out a planned [...]

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20101029/ARTICLE/10291043/2416/NEWS?p=all&tc=pgall
By Billy Cox
Published: Friday, October 29, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 11:04 p.m.
HARDEE COUNTY – Sarasota attorney Bill Harrison was walking his 700-acre ranch after a summer rain when something peculiar caught his eye. Erosion had sheared the face from a 6-foot sandy clay embankment overlooking a exposed a [...]