travel around the world, investigating environmental pollution in crime and see if i could find other reasons that were leading to these rise and cancer rates. and i got to work on some amazing direct action campaigns. really took me into remote areas. there is pollution everywhere. but aside from the plastics there were also multinational corporations polluting into local river ways, getting everyone around them sick for profit, and with access to clean water disappearing every day people were fighting back and at the same time, i saw that that com people were being poisoned by the industries around them, childhood cancer rates are up 6 times the national average. if we can prevent any kids from going through what i've been through, then it's our duty to investigate, find out what's happening in stock. so i decided to travel to one of the most toxic places in america, florida. mm. mm. ah

. they always go to florida, is beaches and disney world. in reality, one afford is biggest industries and best kept secrets is phosphate money. but for every one ton of usable phosphate, there's 5 times of radioactive rock left behind. florida is still radioactive, that the fountain of youth is closed due to radio activity. people that work in the mine and live in the mind, we're getting accelerated cancer. and in 2011 cancer became the leading cause of death in florida. we noticed a study today by the world health organization that said that long term exposure to radiation, even at low levels,

can dramatically increase the risk of dying from cancer. the primer use for phosphate is fertilized, but it's byproducts create cancer in the biggest player and it's $85000000000.00 industry is mosaic. this fortune 500 company owns over 300000 acres which is roughly the size of los angeles. they already have mines in 4 counties and are trying to get into a fit. the mines were 24 hours a day and the mind. 16000000 tons of phosphate rocket year in order to separate the prostate rock from radioactive elements like iranian mosaic, uses over 70000000 gallons of ground water a day which they take from the rivers, used to process the phosphate and then return back to the rivers filled with cancer causing toxins that lead to cancer clusters. all right, and it's cancer causing environmental pollution is permeated by the state. mosaic is self regulated, so they only have to turn in reports for

a balanced ph level which allow them to dump harmful chemicals and toxins into the water. without many people noticing, missouri believes that the solution to pollution is dilution, so they run their water through these outfalls, dump it back into the local creek and rivers which eventually worked its way out to the ocean. and although none of the state or local government for paying any attention when mosaic didn't realize somebody was in 2015, the e p a find mosaic, or $2000000000.00 for the mishandling of hazardous waste and louisiana and florida . just last year mosaic agreed to pay nearly $2000000000.00 to settle a federal lawsuit. the agreement covering 60000000000 pounds of hazardous waste that the company agreed to clean up operations at 6, florida sites and 2 in louisiana. and claiming mosaic was improperly storing in disposing of chemicals used to make fertilizers. meantime the e. p. a called the agreement, a major victory for clean water. the music has never addressed these health

concerns. instead they use p r to try to look like good neighbors. they sponsor huge music festivals, put $9000000.00 into just photos arena. give money to the local police departments, put on charities and the holidays, and can't food drives. they even sponsor wildlife events. and as one of the largest landowners in florida, their political influence is huge. and missouri routinely sends representatives out to local elementary schools to helped educate the children on the benefits of mining mosaic, preparing today students for tomorrow's jobs. welcome to arcadia, florida, halfway between our lando and tampa. arcadia sits in dawn valley and this sleepy agricultural town has become ground 0 for the battle with mosaic. ah, and although their history

a phosphate mining is tied with to soto county, there has not been phosphate mind here for over a 100 years. mosaic bought up a bunch of smaller companies and inherited the land that they owned, which was down for agriculture. so currently mosaic is trying to read zone 14000 acre me from agriculture to phosphate mining. but after watching friends and families get sick and other counties, the residents decided to say no, i started the facebook group, hash tag mosaic against phosphate mining soto county. no, there's not many people are familiar with what those ache is and what, what they do or you know, what phosphate mining even is very few people that know what mosaic is actually about. they portray themselves to do something and be something that they're really not about. i have a pull up on facebook. 96 percent is against the phosphate mining in desoto county

. but we can't allow mosaic to come into the soda fountain. you know, maybe they'll actually learn that our health is more important than money. on the day, the board of county commissioners voted for the reason. oh, the citizens showed up to have their voices heard and protests. like most of them out of ranking allows we'll see to change from agriculture, tier 8 in to phosphate. mon fioma, the zoning district of 140083 point 40 plus or minus acres. land motion for now. hm. so county, florida, 1st county, i believe in history actually say no mosaic rezoning bron

oh her. oh oh i love an incredible video to night. a massive sink hole has opened up the mosaic new wealth facility in more very good evening. and thanks for joining us on monday. ryan, this is your tonight. there are reports of millions of gallons of contaminated water now flowing into the florida aquifer. nbc actually news reporter cameron, poland live at the plant with tonight crew that the new whales mosaic plants scrambling to stop the contaminated and radioactive water that's seeping into the florida aquifer. they bought a lot of land,

but it's agricultural land. it's not mining land. so they have to get it changed to raise own it and the people in the county have said no. meet molly bowen, grandmother of 10, an accidental water act. this molly jumped into this in 2016 after that famous mosaic st. call had contaminated her sons drinking water and well water. molly spent a lot of time in the field, doing water testing and then mapping the out falls and all the different waterways that mosaic uses to release their toxins. and having grown up in the area, molly is familiar with the all the ways the waters connect. and she keeps track of all the different outfalls mosaic have in the waters. they blended to drawing a direct line from a zag outfalls down to the charlotte harbor. and out to the goal, molly's been able to prove over and over with these tests with their excessive

levels of contaminants in the water. she hopes this will lead to more water testing and conversations about m a zak and operate more say january 1st, 2019. there was some kind of an explosion at the 4 corners my mirror came the explanation given was that it was a giant flock of birds which we did not buy. so we figured we could take a look at the water ourselves and go get our very 1st water soon. boy looked really weird like he was frozen or had some sort of top layer on since all of the watershed is connected, we wanted to get water samples from all the different areas to get an idea of what mosaic was putting in the local waters, the local rivers, and to see if we could trace it back to a single source. we're

like this. we just pulled out waterway right near mine. we're gonna do a quick phosphate test. over bo's urban torture over boats. not very, very smooth or straw. we go to our vault stickers with home in order to whomever, more hormones do a mars too long. it is dark this, cuz this is at least 4. if not, it's even darker than the darkest color, i think ah, soon we know it's way. ready over for and that's the one that how the oil and then we drove over to another county about

40 minutes away. and we wanted to check out a place called johnson creek, which is an outfall right underneath of the wingate might be all we had just seen was called a fluent and a fluid is a proprietary mix of multiple oils that the mining company uses. and one of the signs of that discharge is heavy thumb. mm hm. if you look, there's those little bubbles in the bubbles, dark, disappear. they turn into the phone. you can see the thumb collecting on the rocks right there. mm. looks like paradise. if you don't look too close, but i have to track it a little bit. you can see behind me. so i mean it's disgusting. it smells, smells horrible. i just know how is this different exposure, like that's newer,

this longest k e, you know, i mean, that's been there for weeks. that's in there for days. ah, to ah, a, this isn't a flow is coming down directly from the mines and headed directly into the my aca, which is a state preserve. and also jain river. i mean, you must, it has to be deleted and as shown to dante,

we stand together. we'll continue to stand together against russia, even in germany. repeat some of the errors that we doubtless made, say no to civilians as chunky dawson about their village influence other nations, france b, u. k. and even latin america and other countries in future than maybe knew where to high run walk cycle alone with members of your household. so please, please, please, please. we're going to continue to fight. don't just need to rush. you must not be allowed in germany. i don't want y'all to common leave. it's so short. so name out t d enough, asian 5 and the yes actually indian out the innovation mrs. guns until sunday.

ah join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. but i'll be speaking to guess from the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then moving . mm. i pointed out that it looks like the foam that was in mosaic,

sinkhole. wherever 200000000 gallons of radioactive water spilled into the local aqua for and as a result, cancer and other birth defect rates went up. in k, we're taking a break from testing the water to try to call mosaic again. ah ah. ringback ah. ringback hi, you've reached our voicemail. i'm sorry i missed you. please. record your message

after the tone when you are finished. hang up or press pound for more options. hi kelly, this is eric crown. i was trying to give you a call. i am working on a documentary about phosphate mining and would love the opportunity to be able to speak with you k. we're gonna try the phosphate expert for mosaic, towards the phosphate which is sponsored by music or industrial research. and i was wondering if i could speak to dr. berkey i oh. ringback hi, dr. berkey. now this is, this is gary. oh hi, gary, i'm, i'm sorry i'm, but maybe i got misdirected and i think are

the one in lining, caring, awful death and do this with burns, or they'll just cut down all the trees. this field has been cleared and open so the mind can expand into how the problem is. you start to displace a bunch of animals when you remove their habitats, including the endangered animals, the eastern indigo snake, the gopher, tortoise, the stork, and the box turtle law states that if they run into anything of archaeological importance, like an indian burial ground, they have to stop digging immediately, contact the proper authorities and let them take over the airing and according to long time mosaic and play. that's just something you don't to. don't know. it's worth a few sources to produce servers to you. so there's a absorber, go for

a little girl for you to be able to walk you through your groups. installed the washer normal process because both of these you blog molar barble therapy group up a few ball room after work. several promise to treat each barbara shoe over your what you do there. you don't want your policy or no sales of merch install. if you stop importers, worker with mostly so a lot of people don't speak up because they will lose their job and working on the drag line excavator, and to be the operator of that is one of the highest paid jobs. with over 340000 acres already mine and the bone valley region, we, a lot of the locals that have been experiencing cancer and accelerated cancer rates

. all have concerns about the amount of radioactive leftover right here is a great example. this is a mind that is no longer active, but they just leave it like that scarred up for every one tiny phosphate that's usable for them. they have 5 times of radioactively with them. and what's left is basically radioactive. uranium late graph, which was it uses to sponsor things like a bustle funds of the air kidney martin, the user to make roads. and none of the citizens have any idea at how radioactive the ground in after seeing so many people get cancer sicknesses in the area. the citizens of de soto decided to get guidance counters and tests for themselves to find out how radioactive areas really are. and they were shot to find out they've often been exposed to fukushima levels. radiation

you can buy iodine pills for radiation that you can actually buy, you know, a radiation rescue kit that's going to have iodine tablets in it. i know this is cold war stuff. this enough stuff we should be living with in today's world. and although we're exposed to lots of different types of radiation, we're talking about ionizing radiation, which is on the more dangerous side of the scale. and if the ionizing radiation will be measuring for the geiger counters, the natural background is around point $22.00. and we are registering around one, which is about the levels in that light orange here for fukushima. only instead of fukushima, our sample is being taken at a playground with reject rock from mosaic. so at the levels we just saw, according to the radiation network, if you were to live here for over 3 months, your chances of getting cancer would increase to one in a 1000. ah

mosaic is committed to conducting business in a manner that protects the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers, and communities. we are relentless in our pursuit of an injury, free work place where i was a structural iron worker and barney, and welding steel. climbing all over, do ruin entered a man's repairing step, which i would take down the sand hazardous ranch. i think all the contractor then. and then once we got it big in that bottom back up. mm. ah, name is a chronic, bo was a poet, but that's what it is. and i mean,

you know, if you inject somebody will polish, it kills them right away. it's gonna kill in some mercy. you know what to me. but just like you give me just a little bit every day for 20 years, you're like, oh like cruel, do you have a lot of friends that you also worked with at the time that also have illness now for a lot of long problems with cancer problems kidney problems, lot we're trying to point me spiritually to northville. look, oh, you want that jo nationalist but then the table for a little children at home with a home recently bought was when. mm.

probably last page. just a so how many people that you worked with mosaic? i got cancer or had hit that house with 3 out of 21. visit that still a chance i live in a liver failure. established that most of our younger guys and that where those major bad is and when it got blue, i got laid out so they would put the dose of made a mad underneath your head. that when you get radiation, it's going to be filled up. and instead of helping the guys they just go with a while when you got hired and nobody was temporary logic. do any key is daddy's was i went to many a

is saying mm. in leo, for years i drink. what good went to sleep at night like a what? no late what kind of intimidation or difficulties did you, did you have with the company was they figured out that you were vocal about what you saw going on? well, you know, i try to get a gag order and

i'd like you did a couple times. i just can't. i didn't have any friends i thought later. but people that they told people not even talk to me if i saw growth in church, said no way, i mean anything to do. we normally do a little later only, you know, 3 years i guess my social lab work. ready with people that had been told that that got to be my pre med, but so far nobody from jose has called me back now, much of a surprise, we're now going to try to call the main person in to so heather natalie. and see if we can speak to her today. for right now, record you back again. can you please hang up or press pound for more options. hi

heather, my name is eric brown. i am working on a documentary about fussy mining. and i would love to be able to talk to you guys, i'm in town till next week, and i was hoping maybe monday or tuesday. we could sit down and do an interview. and if you think mosaic is only affecting the water in florida, i've got really bad news for you. because guess you make your for i good toxic leftovers from mining become hydro. florist was the acid which has been sold to municipalities all across america to be placed into the drinking water. well, they knew as a gas, out of the $54.00 plant evaporation, a polish for gasoline. and they use tiny gray

track. those deals, those particles, a gas in my stored on agitated where the silica st to the bar and you know people, drake with study after study at harvard because is lauren lack you and feel. and then course you do if you drink instead and may take. and you know it and everything isn't cold beer in grade. anything, it's got water and it has got that they've got a gold. there's so much florida. ah,

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