This video was put out a year ago according to the YouTube header. It is very good and certainly worth a view if you have not seen it and another screening if you have. Be ready to get even more upset with this unnecessary rape and pillage of Florida.
Category: Reclamation
The Truth About Mining
This is an excellent, short video comparing the beauty of Mosaic’s glossy advertising to the reality of phosphate mining destruction. Please watch with friends and share with everyone.
Several Letters and a Cartoon in the Arcadian re: Mining DeSoto
Letters from Concerned Citizens:
http://arcadian.fl.app.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=148c7c2c9
Editorial Cartoon:
http://arcadian.fl.app.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=3ffda03cd
Variance Renewal Request
Link to the Mosaic letter to the FDEP re a Variance Renewal Request for the Fort Green Mine Reclamation timing for an additional 10 years.
FDEP_FG_2018_Variance Renewal Request_Final_3-29-18
Florida Statute 378.209 is referenced in the Renewal Request
Polk County mined land…what to do with it?
After mining, it will be the county that tries to figure out what in the heck they will do with their thousands of acres of mined lands. Health studies would be required to assess the toxicity and possible radiation threats left behind by the upheaval of formerly native systems. Is this what Hardee, Desoto and Manatee county can look forward to?
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