but yes, i don't think these that would be popular at all. what's like, thank you so much. i'm 40. we have run out of time for all 3 of you. thanks so much . spike cohen, justin robbie: young and bob and good to have you on a day and that is all for this hour. thank you so much. oh, there you are. thank you so much for joining us. and we hope season ah, well, join me every posted on the alex simon. sure. but i will be speaking to guess what the world politics, sport business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. oh, became a test bed for medical and then later recreational marijuana and it started with

something. so in a saying, i was wanting to socialize, everybody does it? so i cannot and then it just keeps going and going and going. i'm just going to do it one. yeah. and then it's, i'm just going to try this one and then never do it again cuz they want my phone was on and i'm right on inside. okay. and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it and you not to stop. or it felt like my life was over. jumped offices all balcony and died. mm you the just so we're in the mine right now. it's behind me is some drag lines and what appears to be empty pits, so they're just digging in. usually people don't get as far as you can see around,

there's a massive amount of destruction. it's just heart wrenching so much destruction. and none of this can be fixed, none of this can be repaired. none of it is of any of any good or use to anybody who says radioactive for thousands of years. a water sample inside mime. yeah. carefully home i had with careful no animals. hm. ah,

holding my breath. oh my god with mm ah ah, poverty battle of sorts took center stage today into pseudo county at issue these 14000 acres of land mosaic wants to mine phosphate here. commission is already shut that down. but as like to support a break, hollandsworth explains now to day they negotiate to mind or not to mine. a very simple we don't want any further south after already getting shot down by the federal commissioners last summer was inc. is once again talking with county

leaders about rezoning property it owns within the county to my thoughts, faith, neighbors, voice environmental concerns, added mediation today. they're bringing up in destroying from waste ads, the plants and trees and everything that protects them and felt his allotted. clark don't who live near the peace river? also worry the mining fate will be crease, his property value, who we want to buy a home. it can be in the nation even trying in neighbors from surrounding areas. many say it could topic that's bigger than the photo county. unbeknownst to miss residency, there's an accounting entity, counties in charlotte county, a portion of our drinking water on the surface water component is from the peace river in advance. representative says the company's environment can, we can ship it, hawks mediation will help them reach middle ground, whereas very strictly nation. and we're very proud of meeting those regulations. and we came very good care of the water for melina, back home,

sweet home. and we've been collecting so many samples that we didn't do all the field test because takes a little bit of time and, and precision. and we were jumping into places we necessarily were necessarily allowed to be. now that we had water from the mine itself. we were able to take a look at the different levels that it has. and what we wanted to do was test various bodies of water to see if they had matching levels, which would show that it was all treated water and came from the same spot. so this is some of the test water that fell on my arm when i was transferred it over you created guys, everything south has this much phosphate. so there's a consistency, there's to be no phosphate in every single star spot. we grabbed it.

everything is pretty consistent, which is weird because he's not the same body of water, but it almost sold assassin their mind. not i my point, every single test that bases say that now you said there's no oxygen and water. and then of user bodies, the connect and then coming out to sack same results, angel. weird. the only thing in common is now i'll have my tank out house these tests prove to us that the high total phosphate and the low dissolved oxygen means it's almost impossible for fish to live in these waters. so inside to send the samples into the lab for further testing. and what we found was astonishing. now the e p a has set the standard for $300.00 pico carries per liter. and what we found was dumped in over 4000. ah, since the municipalities pull water from the peace river,

we decided to test yellow menchie school water fountain. and what we found is that it was above the acceptable safe limit of $300.00 and with the proven link between radon and cancer became very obvious. the mosaics run off was affecting children's health all over the state and with so many cancer clusters, i couldn't figure out why the state would not even address a cancer cluster is a higher than expected number of the same type of cancer in a specific area over a set time period for a similar group of people. no physicians would be willing to speak on camera about the connection between environmental factors and cancer's. matter of fact, there was only one study done in 2010 and when it was given to the state it was shell. so i found a catch up with cell 1000000000 fight for 0 dot org, who has spent the last few years, tracking cancer clusters and bringing attention to them. succeeding where the state failed. in 2013 my uncle, our family dog,

my brother who was 21 years old, myself and my father were all diagnosed with cancer in my brother. and i walk the same that cancer, which is hodgkin's lymphoma like cancer or uncle in our dog passed away. and my father is still fighting bone cancer. you know, course everybody goes to the o it's genetic and you know, must run in your family. we have no family history of cancer, or our case was so unique we were invited to get a genetic testing done. and the genetic testing showed that we had no mutating gene . so what that usually means is that it's environmentally car course that that started me on my journey. so in 2014, i began the whole just crowd sourcing ever and from that timeframe and till about 2018, i just continue to research, collect information i collected anything. i put, everybody called me crazy. they said are waters fine. you're just paranoid,

just because your family got cancer, doesn't mean it was caused by something. you know, you always hear those typical things. we're finding that their home have had, this is an example. somebody had the lymphoma, they moved sold that home. and the next one or child had wow, we're finding that not just with one home, we're finding that in several cases where people have moved from that exact. and it's a totally different family and they're getting diagnosed with similar cancelling nothing. we decided, let's do water testing in those areas. let's do environmental testing and those periods. and that's when we found we started finding stuff in the water so we can kind of connect, you know, the environment and health. it's always about environmental health. and so i created the map because i wanted to give us that vision and to be able to look. and

when i started getting up into the 400 mark and then the 800 diagnosed and one little zip code like one little area, i started to wonder what is this normal one i even called the department of health . and they tried to tell me, yeah, because i said, is it normal for whole families and neighbors to be getting diagnosed around the same time with similar cancer isn't and they're like, yeah, that's normal people get cancer. i got cancer, you know, so it was just like a really odd response to a concern that we had in. we're crowdsourcing this data and we're seeing why isn't, isn't that the state seeing this information wired, you know, what are they doing with our data? because they're required, the doctors are required to change in all of our cancer diagnosis is to the state. so what exactly are they doing with that that i mean for me i think that's really important information to take into consideration for the health and safety of communities across the entire state of florida. i was really

surprised when stell was talking about the department of health reaction. i mean they defined themselves as a department that is there to prevent disease of environmental origin. so i decided to take the water test we had done and go visit the department of health myself. i wanted to see what they thought about the water test results. talk about the geiger counter results. see what test protections are available for citizens and what the state is do with all these cancer diagnosis. and it turns out the department of health is on a park property where mosaic had paid for all the renovation. ah, and although phosphate is natural for bodies, too much of it, like the levels we found in the test that we ran, can cause kidney damage and osteoporosis. ah, and finding out more about the wire service. do you guys have anything that tests

for radiation? we haven't had that and i try to to have dens, fussy person in here. thank you. appreciate you taking water samples. you found incredible one phosphate because a lot of people love students here are concerned especially so you know, with the possibility. ready of my screen and they won't, and maybe you can help me. and the reason that i'm curious, i'm working on the documentary about what's happening here in just the mining 70 effective public health public relations. okay. okay. thank you. it's interesting that as soon as i mentioned mining, i went to appear in person. i was brown. i yes, nice to meet you. thank you so much. now,

our mission, just a quick question for you. okay. well, thanks. mm. it became really obvious that the state and mosaic work together, there's a cancer in the body politic. and the watchdog for the industry has now become of their guard. doug. you developments in a breaking aid on your side investigation. a big apology from mosaic to its neighbors, the community and polk county for keeping a contaminated little secret. so why the big case of, we're sorry. well, for failing a timely notify people living nearest new wells planted mulberry of a sinkhole that sucked hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive water into the aquifer. senior investigative reporter, steve andrews broke the story last week. he's back tonight with an important update that includes that overdue a policy at this point today. hey, this hall is getting bigger,

it's widening. it appears as all the walls are eroding cracking, separating it looks as though it's about to collapse a florida department of environmental protection claims. it's all over this, but the guardians of our environment. i've been dead silent about this. all of this from the get go. polk county officially became aware of this single september night . it failed to notify the public to did you do enough? as far as notifying our constituents the, the problem is, what do you tell them? you know, we had possible danger coming your way. i mean, you must so did it in as you want to don't. so we stand together. we'll continue to stand together against russia. 80 in germany police.

some of the areas that we doubtless made. they noticed vinitez chunky daughters 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 wrong cycle pollute with members of your household. please, please, please, please. we have to continue to fight with justin. rushman must not be allowed in germany. i don't want y'all to come and leave it social out. so the in l t d enough ation the 5 and the yes. ok to in the 80 the enough mrs. guns until sunday. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy one foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development only. and getting to resists. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

very difficult time. time to sit down and talk to ministers. i've spoken with fiona was up to mosaic, to make news of the sink hole and aqua for contamination. public constituents don't let mosaic elect you folks to the county commissioners and county commissioners as far as i know, or polk county government didn't let the public know. sure. responsibility, anna, um, morally, yes. tallahassee. today d e p. b agency, responsible for guarding our environment couldn't whisk deputy director, gary clark away fast enough for mar mike vassal. and we can set something up place you haven't. we've tried to reach you for 3 or 4 days and you don't return our call . and you are avoiding this, again, i just don't understand why you don't want to say we made in the same calling to know that i was chuckling about 1st of all. mm hm. and aside from local politicians

and mining areas, they spend a lot of lobbying over $480000.00 at ballard partners over $830000.00 on a lobbyist that has one person and they reach out and get people at the state level that can deregulate enrique, that's a great example. after removing $700000000.00 worth of protection money for florida's waterways. he then gutted the entire f t p replacing it with lobbyists and corporate insiders. that normally worked on getting the permits for mosaic and other corporations. he shrank the permitting process from 44 days down to 2 days, got ordered, his new staff quote, where noncompliance occurs despite your best efforts and education outreach. your 1st consideration should be whether you can bring about a return to compliance without enforcing this approach started the hands off of the f t p and the creation of compliance assistance letters instead of finding the

polluters, the db actually worked with them in order to ensure business continues is yours. one of the doors mixed up and was a revolving door between hopping green and sams, which is mosaics lawyers and the f t p. and i actually got to see the relationship between mosaic and the state firsthand. norma kilburn, he called me and asked if she could use one of the water reports that we had got from the mine to give to jon codes from the f t p. because mosaic was trying to renew apparently. turns out john codes actually called the lab. when i heard this, i reached out to the lab myself and they confirmed that john coach had contacted them. and they had told john codes that they do not look at the source of the water sample. in order to get a true reading, junko then writes to norma that he has spoken with the program director, who indicated they did not know the sample was collected from surface water. and their test is designed for reporting rate on exclusively from drinking water

samples. he said this test is simply not applicable. so once john cuts was able to discredit the high rate on level of that report, he was then able to give a generic answer back to norma and approve the permit for mosaic after all. now a little bit of the food chain from john codes is adam blaylock. now adam blaylock used to be a mosaic lawyer. now he's the f t p deputy secretary, and he is in charge of all 5 state water management districts, water supply, planning, water use, permitting, any overseas ecosystem restoration, which in mining is called reclamation watch, reclamation ecology come on. i'll show you a there's a, it is a global leader in the science and reclamation melanie, we're putting it right here at home, innovative environmental technology, natural habitat for native landline, providing streams that haven't existed for

a century. the science of stewardship, the science of mosaic, when mosaics applying for permits and different counties, they have to submit what's called a reclamation plan. and this is the idea that when they're done mining, they're going to put the land back to use and turn it into nature. so in essence, in their philosophy, they're only borrowing the land to extract the minerals and then return it as was, and sometimes even better. the reality is far different than that. a lawsuit filed in federal court claims developers, and paul county failed to notify thousands of new homeowners that they are living on contaminated land. lawsuit claims known, including drummond notified the plaintiff or class members of the significantly elevated cancer risks posed by the presence of rate on gas, gamma radiation or concerns raised by the federal e p. j. it goes on to say in 1975, the administrator informed the governor of florida that the

e p. a had found elevated levels of radiation in buildings constructed on land reclaimed from phosphate mining areas and recommended that construction of new buildings on phosphate mining lands be discouraged. and in 2022 more communities. soon after being built on reclaim land and a lot of the tenants getting cancer, we visited a community built on old mining land. 2 blocks away from the communities that are suing currently. and you would have no idea how radioactive it is on these lands. how many homes are very sold in the neighborhood? 1010. not only are family homes built on former mines, but so are public parks. this is one of the more popular ones, hardy lakes park, ah sagen forwarding community. they go timing, but any kind of community that ms. a is around. we've had 1st birthdays here in the civilian even made it more exciting to have 2nd and 3rd, and 4th and 5th birthdays here. there really get

a good opportunity for you to come there and get together and compare. what reclamation can eli not meaning people know that it's not. many people know that it's reclamation. i think this is really the problem. they take up all the fields, becomes radioactive. they placed her back on top of it and then turn them into public areas with no notification, not possible side effects of radiation. one of the interesting signs here is you can see that all the trees are at the exact same level. when they reclaim land, they plant the trees the same time. mm hm. now aside from just covering the land with some dirt and planting trees at the same time, they also bring in what's called reject rock from the mines. this is the rock that's left over when they pull the phosphate out of the ground and separated from the uranium. so once mosaic has this radioactive rock,

they can't sell it. they give it to the counties who then use it, adding it to rows. and i've heard of a famous rock pile here in hardy lakes park that the kids like to plan. okay, love. oh my god, there's like a good point. oh, don't rush right up here. i'm young. with the paper the truck, we were really surprised to see the white truck following us still. but we want to let him go by before we jumped out with the geiger cam with,

with children thing on this, right? well, we had to know how radioactive it was in 100 is the maximum recommended safe limit for exposure. at this level of radiation, he's given very high probability of getting cancer. maybe not just from one visit, but from repeated exposure. ah, this is one of the highest level of c p. m. 's we've seen since we've had the geiger, ah, we are right behind me, are all the lots that they bring from the mines. and we just tested them and they're reading over. busy 450 and these children are been playing here to high school. i'm linking my hopes that we could get them to remove this. this is not natural here. they brought this here from the mine. it's rejected, rock that fell off the side while they were getting it loaded or whatever through the process. i didn't want it, so they loaded here as

a dumb side. this is not natural, this is not good road, it's on all these roads. all the cam flies in the boat ramp. it's at the playground . it's at the store at 4 corner. so if they get, they can remove this to lower the radiation levels here than a dollar the. all right, but they're just ignoring that they're not doing anything. they came out here to health apartments and experts came out here. they seated it's high levels of radiation, yet they don't. they just kind of like, you know, ignore it. ah, let's check it out. it's a geiger counter. he's rocks come from the phosphate mining company and they don't from here, then it was it. yeah, we can this, we're already up 280100. is anything over a 100 dangerous, prolonged exposure?

how are you? yeah, that's great. we want to bring it down and test this area cuz everyone keeps here. i mean, i wouldn't like like long, almost 400. wow, yeah. and there's a whole rock. yeah. and the kids play it. right. yeah. well yeah, yeah. we just went to the rock pilot measured over 450. yeah, he's always playing. yeah. always the kids in there. ah. i could not believe what i've seen every single place we went and put a geiger counter down or every place. so we took a water sample from had cancer causing levels. the people in florida are actually fighting a few cancers, the 1st being the disease which still remains the number one cause of death in florida. and the 2nd is that mosaic moves like cancer. once it's used up the

resource, it has to expand for its own survival. but the 3rd one may be the deadliest of all the cancer of the body politic. the people that were regulating are polluters, have now joined them into every day. they allow cancers that can be stopped to continue to happen. and as our only defense is eroded away, we pay the price with our health. and with mosaic and the state having such a cozy relationship, the only people that could step in were the federal e p a. but when the e p a started to be run by a former co lobbyist, they actually deregulated all water protections, leaving the people in florida to fend for themselves. but this problem is bigger than florida. it's not only nation lighting, it's worldwide 24 hours a day. factors are pumping cancer, causing chemicals into local waterways, all with the government approved. and over $1000000000.00 people a year pay the price by getting a chronic illness. and even though

a lot of these polluters are multi nationals, the way they do business can be forced to change by the voice of the citizens. and with childhood cancer rates up 30 percent since the 19 seventy's and access to clean water disappearing. day by day, local communities have stood up to these giant taking their environment back and joining this world wide movement is easy. it begins when you asked simple question, what's in my water? ah, ah, ah,

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