Phosphate mines are environmental disasters destroying thousands of acres of land, wetlands and streams while creating toxic waste and depleting and contaminating groundwater. As a scientist I urge you to deny new permits.
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Larry Anderson
9 years ago
Stop the phosphate mining!
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Nike McBride
9 years ago
Phosphate mining in Florida has jeopardized land, property, water supply and quality, and public health, solely to serve the profits of a near-monpoloy which in turn is serving the needs of foreign countries and markets such as China - as well as its own bottom line. Phosphate interests in Florida have failed to be honest, transparent, and responsible, and this pattern of behavior and the corporate culture of Florida's phosphate interests have proved to be poor if not dangerous corporate citizens. Stop Phosphate Mining in Florida now.
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Adrien Lucas
9 years ago
With our watersheds being encroached upon by a daily basis with new development, we cannot afford more mishaps with the quality and safety of what remains with our fresh water or gulf coast.
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Larry Grossman
9 years ago
The State of Florida cannot unequivocally state in its statutes that phosphate mining is good for Florida and should excise this reference given the environmental destruction phosphate strip mining has caused to this great State of environmental bounty.
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Kay Haering
9 years ago
Clean Water is Human Survival!
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RICK EATON
9 years ago
CLEAN UP YOUR EXISTING MESS BEFORE YOU ADD TO IT
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Janice Fritzmeier
9 years ago
Please deny these new permits. I have seen the ugliness of what this mining leaves!
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Francis Scheuer II
9 years ago
Point for Point, Phosphate mining in Florida is a destructive process. Phosphate has a relatively smzll value to plant production.
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Kate Spinner
9 years ago
The economic and long-term intrinsic value of the natural areas and resources - including drinking water resources - far outweighs the mining industry's economic contribution. If left unharmed, the wildlife and water resources will be available for many generations to come; but once the phosphate resources are extracted, the mining companies and the jobs will be gone and so will the wildlife and water quality.
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Richard Curran
9 years ago
It's killing our state!
Mosaic get out of FL.!
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Geraldine Swormstedt
9 years ago
The damage to our water supplies, both surface and underground is beyond repair.
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Suzi Fox
9 years ago
Manatee County is still dealing with Piney Point disaster. The 'pools' are still around. Fix that before issuing any more permits in Manatee County
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Susan Johnson
9 years ago
Mosaic seeks to convey in its TV ads that it is in the farming business rather than the industrial strip-mining of huge rural agricultural areas in Florida to process phosphate. The normal process of returning the land to any useful purpose is stated as 40 years. Rural communities are adversely affected for years to come.
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Robert Fellman
9 years ago
The Herald Tribune for Sarasota reported that Mosaic admitted to discharging "Slightly Radioactive" water into the Floridian Aquifer during the sinkhole spill. Who would sanely be comforted with the knowledge that slightly radioactive water had been discharged in their supply aquifer? Stop dangerous Phosphate mining in Florida.
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Fred and Gerlinde Kohl
9 years ago
The disastrous breach of the Mulberry gypstack resulting from the massive sinkhole makes it urgent that we halt new phosphate mining. The 25 stacks around the state of Florida are accidents waiting to happen -- permanent toxic fixtures left after the mining process, sitting on top of the porous karst that holds our precious aquifer.
Phosphate mines are environmental disasters destroying thousands of acres of land, wetlands and streams while creating toxic waste and depleting and contaminating groundwater. As a scientist I urge you to deny new permits.
Stop the phosphate mining!
Phosphate mining in Florida has jeopardized land, property, water supply and quality, and public health, solely to serve the profits of a near-monpoloy which in turn is serving the needs of foreign countries and markets such as China - as well as its own bottom line. Phosphate interests in Florida have failed to be honest, transparent, and responsible, and this pattern of behavior and the corporate culture of Florida's phosphate interests have proved to be poor if not dangerous corporate citizens. Stop Phosphate Mining in Florida now.
With our watersheds being encroached upon by a daily basis with new development, we cannot afford more mishaps with the quality and safety of what remains with our fresh water or gulf coast.
The State of Florida cannot unequivocally state in its statutes that phosphate mining is good for Florida and should excise this reference given the environmental destruction phosphate strip mining has caused to this great State of environmental bounty.
Clean Water is Human Survival!
CLEAN UP YOUR EXISTING MESS BEFORE YOU ADD TO IT
Please deny these new permits. I have seen the ugliness of what this mining leaves!
Point for Point, Phosphate mining in Florida is a destructive process. Phosphate has a relatively smzll value to plant production.
The economic and long-term intrinsic value of the natural areas and resources - including drinking water resources - far outweighs the mining industry's economic contribution. If left unharmed, the wildlife and water resources will be available for many generations to come; but once the phosphate resources are extracted, the mining companies and the jobs will be gone and so will the wildlife and water quality.
It's killing our state! Mosaic get out of FL.!
The damage to our water supplies, both surface and underground is beyond repair.
Manatee County is still dealing with Piney Point disaster. The 'pools' are still around. Fix that before issuing any more permits in Manatee County
Mosaic seeks to convey in its TV ads that it is in the farming business rather than the industrial strip-mining of huge rural agricultural areas in Florida to process phosphate. The normal process of returning the land to any useful purpose is stated as 40 years. Rural communities are adversely affected for years to come.
The Herald Tribune for Sarasota reported that Mosaic admitted to discharging "Slightly Radioactive" water into the Floridian Aquifer during the sinkhole spill. Who would sanely be comforted with the knowledge that slightly radioactive water had been discharged in their supply aquifer? Stop dangerous Phosphate mining in Florida.
The disastrous breach of the Mulberry gypstack resulting from the massive sinkhole makes it urgent that we halt new phosphate mining. The 25 stacks around the state of Florida are accidents waiting to happen -- permanent toxic fixtures left after the mining process, sitting on top of the porous karst that holds our precious aquifer.