Opponents challenge new Mosaic mining plan
By BRIAN ACKLEY
Fort Meade Leader/Polk County Democrat
Staff Writer
Published:
Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:54 PM EDT
A plan unveiled earlier this week that would keep mining operations going for at least another year is being challenged by opponents who filed a lawsuit last year to stop an expansion at Mosaic’s South Fort Meade [...]

One way by which the phosphate industry affects journalistic scrutiny is to advertise heavily in local news media – spending millions to portray their industry as beneficent, responsible and rooted in Florida tradition.
Here’s a case where a reporter just circumvented the television station and went to work directly for Big Daddy….
JACKIE BARRON: News Channel [...]

PLYMOUTH, Minn., April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) announced that it has notified the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that it plans to conduct uplands-only mining (i.e., non-wetlands) in an area at its South Fort Meade, Florida, phosphate rock mine in Hardee County. This upland [...]

Army Corps Tries to Assess Impacts of Sprawling Phosphate Operations in Fla.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/04/14/14greenwire-army-corps-tries-to-assess-impacts-of-sprawlin-83462.html?pagewanted=all
By MANUEL QUINONES of Greenwire
Published: April 14, 2011
The Army Corps of Engineers is preparing a sweeping assessment of the environmental impacts of Florida phosphate mining in response to pleas from environmentalists and
The politicians concerned about the health of their state’s waterways.
The Go to [...]

HB 7129: Growth Management (4/11/2011 PDF)
(t) Any proposed solid mineral mine and any proposed
7767 addition to, expansion of, or change to an existing solid
7768 mineral mine is exempt from this section. Proposed changes to
7769 any previously approved solid mineral mine development-of-
7770 regional-impact development orders having vested rights is not
7771 subject to [...]

This email was sent to me today by environmental activist, John Rehill, of Duette, FL. Note the before/after photographs of Bartow’s Kissengen Springs (embedded in his message)….
Army Corps of Engineers wants phosphate mining comments
The Bradenton Herald 4-12-2011
MANATEE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is soliciting public comments on what should be included in an [...]

For Immediate Release – April 11, 2011
Contacts:
PERCY ANGELO, SIERRA CLUB FLORIDA PHOSPHATE COMMITTEE, (941) 698-1519
Eric E. Huber, Sierra Club Senior Staff Attorney, (303) 449-5595 ext. 101
FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS STAYS MOSAIC’S
SOUTH FORT MEADE EXTENSION PERMIT FOR 90 DAYS WHILE SENDING
IT BACK TO DISTRICT COURT FOR FINAL RULING
Atlanta, GA — On April 8, 2011, the U.S. [...]

PLYMOUTH, Minn., April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has vacated a preliminary injunction previously granted by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida regarding Mosaic’s South Fort Meade mine. The preliminary injunction had prevented [...]

This is worth checking out….
http://www.floridatrend.com/wide_article.asp?aID=54802
Florida’s Top 10 Private Landowners
1. Plum Creek Timber
2. St. Joe Co.
3. Foley Timber
4. Rayonier
5. Lykes Bros.
6. Deseret Ranches of Florida
7. Mosaic
8. Bascom Southern
9. Florida Crystals
10. U.S. Sugar
Interactive Map: Florida’s Top 10 Private Landowners & Federal and State Holdings
Theresa Woody
Senior Policy Analyst
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
11200 SW 8th Street OE 148
Miami, [...]

Adam Cummings’ comments 2011 EPA Conference: Phosphate Mining and the Environment
http://protectpeaceriver.org/resources/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Altman-Recommended-Order.pdf
This document represents my recollection of my comments at the March 28 & 29 EPA Conference in Punta Gorda Florida on the “State of the Science on Phosphate Mining and the Environment” which I am submitting to become part of the public record as requested [...]