the fight continues in manatee county. jose, a company now wants to expand their mining operations, but many of their neighbors tell abc, actually news reporter adam weiner. they fear another environmental mess. it's not only just my organic farm, it's our natural resources. it's our very precious land. and water gang was among the doesn't to spoke out against mosaic at the 2nd full day of hearings held by manatee county commissioners. deciding whether to change the zoning of the property, called wingate east to allow mosaic to mine phosphate one, drive through west central. ready rural florida and it is clear that mosaic is turning our region into a banana republic. mm. anything that's coming from there, from jose v chain to here, and come through all these properties right here. garrett's an organic farmer and he just lost his you sta, organic status, because mosaic was able to rezone 16000 acres in their own mine,

and that actually borders these wetlands that we're looking at. and the wetlands border garrett's farm. the u. s. government says that any a radiation exposure is dangerous to human health, whereas florida has made slightly different rules so that they can accommodate phosphate mining and agriculture. so garrett has decided to take them to court this . i mean, it must be extremely stressful. this process all yeah, mining is stressful. fast my stress or what it does say community, what does your household, i mean my wife and i, we've had a lot of issues. you know, she, she feels like he shouldn't try to take on a global phosphate giant. but you know, some things are, were standing for, i mean, they are fringed on my way of life. and i, to me, this is more of a constitutional machine. mm. was 8 matchers themselves. they then get them dells of those results to the county and, and the county says okay, magic right?

those wells were placed in the conservation areas where they violated their own work. one interesting aspect of mosaic is their masters of disguise. so here's just a basic looking open fence and as we drive through it looks like there's nothing here. what they do is they build these little teeny berms to keep the minds kind of out of public eye. so when you're driving by, you really have no idea these things were here, but then you just go up a teeny berm and opened up the destruction. what asked the guys why there was no warning signs about the radioactivity or no, no trespassing signs. they said that all the locals know just how bad and how dangerous the air is, so nobody would dare to ever even drive in voluntarily. this is a tower that a crew was at hand. i'm a former tower technician and i was, they were working on the carrier up above there. and i, i totally get out of here,

man, this place radioactive, it out. and they, they were out here for a week working on a project up there. and every day i came and shut them and you know, i just said, you know, this is a dangerous thing out here, but none of them there are no warning signs. we're all here on property. they just say we can't trespass there is, there is a radioactivity in the area, nothing, nothing. one of the things that we're advocating for. so they, they just try to, they just try to sort of keep it a secret radiation. so that way it's not even the topic they have to fight for right, right friday. i'll like to talk about it. and i, you know, we like, we like to talk with

where exactly are we looking at here is this phosphate extraction that took place in april by july they were out here. okay, to see how much acreage they check out of air over here is, is where they bring out the slurry and they hit it with the water cannons. and that's the result of that by products right there, that they didn't take out of here. that is the actual product right there that they're mining is just so this is a band english. i mean they just stop production on it. go out, they're done or in another, they're right over here. now they're just they're, they're about half mile up. yeah. in that direction where your camera space right in

. so i'm back at home base today we spent a lot of the inside of the right around the mines and i started to get really sick . and you can feel a swelling and a pain in the bed. right, i hear which i believe a glimpse knows. so that's the 1st thing and anyhow it sets in, within maybe being around that dust in their pollution within like 10 minutes, 15 minutes. i also have a headache and i started to get us a slight pain in my side. the longer that we were in those mines, so not really feeling well tonight. so the end result of the phosphate process is after you've cleaned out and separated the phosphate from the leftover uranium and other radioactive cancer causing toxic materials. they're released back into the water. they have no material that the ph says they're not

even allowed to get rid of. so what do they do? instead, they build these giant mountains that are called photo chips, them stacks. and this water is some of the most toxic out there. but zoom in just a little bit here. this preface dash to the bottom right of your screen wasn't here yesterday. so it looks like part of the wall is either collapsing or possibly this thing is expanding a little bit. second point recovering that 200. 15000000 gallons of contaminated water from the aquifer is a process that will take years. we've got some post on our facebook page from residence, from claim they live nearby and they're concerned about the quality of their, their water. what can you tell them? i can sure everyone that the water quality, you know, even on our property is still very clean. just imagine florida lakisha nash bond looks like the little holes in our ra,

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total for angela contains for 40 for all, for going home through to be offered to, you know. ringback governor over the world, people are already a i'm in polk county, florida, where the famous thing call happened meeting up with luella phillips, who started to noticed your water changing colors and smell weird after the famous thing call happened. so we're meeting up at the mulberry phosphate museum, or do you have a miniature, indiana jones and your family? if so it's journey through the path when you visit them all very easy.

a b. this is a big point of barry on things here for kids. a lot of things for kids, they have like a christmas time. they have santa claus here and you go cocoa. things have arts and crafts. here is probably one of the radio, radioactive places in mulberry. because you had that you had the mosaic drag line right here. well, the budget has been used and it didn't always say mosaic on it. it has in the past years, this right here is where they want the kids to look for sharks. they say this is, this is average like level of the same sulfate and all that stuff ph balance is higher than anywhere else in the state. florida is average for phosphate mining area doesn't mean safe. it doesn't mean it's good. it just means because of this area, we have high ratings, and that's how they explain our water test and stuff like that. you know, you guys have it consistently getting the same numbers. and yet people mosaic,

and authorities are saying, well, the guy, you're counters must be wrong or they're being used incorrectly. what do you say about that? i mean, i saying they're full and it doesn't take a genius to run a geiger counter. it doesn't take a genius to know to know what's going on. it doesn't take a genius to be able to chase the metal. can you chase the metal on your mouth right now? oh yeah. on the chip. your top like i've been chewing aluminum, you'll probably get a headache later yet we're living in this every day and it's higher than radiation treatment. yeah, our jets come here because of our health surveys. we found out people who just live within a certain radius in the gypsies access stuff. they're, they're getting sick, their children are getting sick back then they didn't notice their children getting sick because nobody knew they had cancer till they were older. a large percentage of the children in his area have autism. there's a, there's birth defects, there's, there's miscarriages, heart disease, high blood pressure to make one in this area. kidney failures a big when lung cancer. huge. i've had love to my breast. i've had to biopsies

before i was 40, and i've had sister to turn into 2 words on my ovaries. i had 2 boyfriends to one, died from who returned, 44 lung cancer in brand cancer and throw kit, he suffocated did it. and then i had somebody else i was close to and he would have been 52 when he died down for a cancer. so you don't have to necessarily work at the mines. you have to live around or drinking water, or near will the soil, they generate hazardous waste radioactive waste. but everything they dump, falls into the ground and migrates, has to go somewhere,

and it migrates to example, lake okeechobee. it goes to the land ocean and it goes to the gulf of mexico, out of a red tide that karen neo brothers, that's the one that's out in the ocean needs oxygen, carbon dioxide and phosphorus is where the process is flow through east bed, which cracked in the ground like this, it up wells. now these cracks are like a bunch of roads and highways on to the ground. you have fractures are horizontal, vertical in it angles there, so it was produced. so the water takes goes up and says, i think i'll go down here and it goes over here, but ultimately got to the ocean. i became a test bed for medical and then later recreational marijuana and it started with something so innocent. 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, oh, i'm just going to try this once and then you never do it again because the one wife on them on and i'm right on inside. okay. and you surround yourself with people who are encouraging you to do it and not to stop or if falling my life was over, jumped office at all balcony and died. mm. he knew he just couldn't welcome to max hazard financial survival guide, looking forward to your friends without yanks. this is what happens. dimensions in brittany del at this happens. you watch kaiser report. ah,

laura means everything to me. i've had on the water since i was a child. i live here in matlab shave florida, where i've, you know, choir, a life dream of owning the small mom and pop motel. i'd my captain. i do what are tours? so water quality is my sustainability. so in 2018, our ground 04 red tide, devastation, millions of tons of dead fish. see life dolphins, vanity's marching up on our beaches all summer long. devastating air m r m, as mary economy. as those phosphorus products to make their way into the waterway. and feed the sy in the bacteria, feed the red tide. it leads to an ecological disaster of millions of tons of fish, kills this year over $200.00 manatees over $125.00 dolphins,

or $400.00 c turtles and tons of miscellaneous fish that were killed this year. behind that was economic meltdown. the fort myers beach was a ghost town. people are lying up at food banks. the city of sanibel was losing $16000000.00 a day. people are not coming here. businesses are closing. people have actually committed suicide because of their business losses related to this. that phosphorus, potentially even from the 2016 toxic spill into a sink hole in central florida, where 260000000 gallons flushed into an awful her. those aquifers eventually make their way into our, our coastal waters, freighting basically gasoline or fire to feed the red tide. as it approaches our coast, red ties naturally occurring, but the massive blooms that we have are unnatural,

and they're being fed by the unification of our waterways. through phosphate nitrogen. hello everyone. my colleagues at the hillsboro county board of county commissioners and i are proud to welcome the mosaic company's headquarters to our community mosaic. as a fortune 500 company and one of the world's leading producers and marketers, i've concentrated phosphate and potash cropped nutrients. this is our 1st fortune 500 recruitment when in march, an important milestone, and our rise has a global business destination. hillsborough county has experienced tremendous growth and our financial professional services. i. t, a manufacturing sector about our cost paid industry, which dates back to the $18.00 eighty's continues to thrive. the export of phosphate products and related prostate shipments played a key role in port tampa bay's growth over the last 100 years. so thank you, mazda,

i'm just mad enough, adam, did i just go to bottom to the day i dive in. thank you to, by having to put my body down here in this walk. so that if anything happens after we're down and mosaic wanted this property, they they own that property over to the side here and the property here, but they can't get a grant on it because it be too close to my house. mm. mm. i mean, we watch a whole bunch more more. they said, oh, they say, i don't care about it, but they spent what, 1st 10 years or 12 years that we lived on the property of one of their buyers, pounded us, trying to get us to sale. but we love that this was our home and really we didn't understand what, what was going to happen. you know, we didn't understand about the, is your, my grand kids and my children. i have half

a thyroid now. and my daughter has how she motos my older son has parkinson's. my husband has leukemia. my grand daughter went to sleep at 13 and woke up the next morning. her eyelashes were on her face. that's how we found that her thyroid is gone. there was one the right there, as long as she lives on the property mosaics not allowed to touch with the problems the dust. she surrounded on all 4 sides by mine, which have off gypsy, then travels airborne to all the surrounding areas for miles and miles. which gives of radar, which is undetectable when breathing is the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer in the united states. killing over 20000 people. eager say it stay in the house a lot because he it with his own condition. he couldn't go outside our house. we own 50 acres and 50 leased and he could not go outside our house because we were held hostage to the death. ah

all. i was starting to feel his heart. nobody from missouri could call me back. none of the doctors i reached out to would call me back in absolutely, nobody would give me information on rosette or environmental pollution. so i decided to try the freedom of information act who had heard mosaic also sells their uranium and found that their subsidiary cf industries does have a defense contract. so under the freedom of information act, i made 3 requests, one to the environmental protection agency, one to the department of defense, and one to the nuclear regulatory commission to see where the uranium was going in there was being tracked. and so i was told by the nuclear regulatory commission

that there are no files and i was told by the p a they would get back to me. and i was actually called by the department of defense, a hearing with eric crown. i'm calling regarding a pointing a website. i haven't did no question. if you can give me a call back. my number 703699756. i appreciate it. thank you. i call them back and they wanted to know why i was interested in mosaic and what i wanted to know about mosaic. they told me to stop that line of questioning and that they were going to delete my request from the database. and i needed to get information on them and nobody would talk. so i decided to go ask my son to stop by the office for his we closed at the moment. i may not be here yet. so we're going to head up like

i was just gotten some of the pictures around the area. i thought i'd stop by and introduce myself. my name is eric. i just want to say hi to heather eric from. hi. are you diane? hi, it's nice. i need you to stop by and say in person hello. busy okay, you know, he's getting shots of like downtown, you know, getting a small town look so yeah. okay. what does that have to do with our business? i mean, i yeah, i need your mall town. yeah, we saw you. not all of our operations. great laugh house back to la would be a better i think reflection of our current operations just because you've been mining so long and hardy county. oh, here. oh, okay. yeah, i'm looking to permit here for years away from having any operations are employees here in to say, oh okay, so do you guys are setting up camp for a future shop for? yeah, i mean, yeah, we have an office here. we have an office. i want to look like i said, i was hoping maybe you'd be here and you know, i could just say hi in person. so. okay. oh yeah,

it's nice to meet you. thank you. i am. all right. no worries. have a good one. yeah. yeah, thanks. felt a touch confrontational, and she was not happy. she wanted to know what i was doing there. so i was at that building for under 2 minutes. and she showed up immediately to question me what was happening. why am i there? they don't have mining here. why would i be getting shots of arcadia so so you know is interesting. they're definitely paying attention and definitely watching. so i decided to take heather's advice to go check out hardy county. and although there's a lot of agriculture and firm work in hardy county, the major business there is mining mosaic is one of the biggest employers. it has

such deep ties to mining. you can actually see a drag line in their seal in $1091.00 at the p 8 in an environmental impact study to see how phosphate mining would actually affect the surrounding areas. they came to the conclusion that if they were to go ahead and build these facilities, they would constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment . yeah. but it was built in, according to the hearty county health department, the leading cause of death. here is cancer. when i received a message from a good friend last night saying that there were people inquiring about me. so we are on slightly more higher alert right now, and we don't know exactly who those to work for. but the person that told me i trust the 100 percent. so my jim stein, you know,

again because i noticed that i was starting to be followed by white trucks, mostly white pickup trucks. occasionally some gm sees. but no matter where i went through his white truck, sort of in the background, when i put the camera up, they would usually drive away. so i had to be very careful while i was out there. eventually find out the mosaic security company, uses all white trucks. i've been told from numerous journalists about the harassment, the mosaic does an amazon or it's really hard to keep an eye on anybody speaking out again with . so this is part of us being followed always by these white trucks. mm. close. if they would be as if he stopped to visit us.

the timing is really unfortunate cuz we excited to go back to the 4 corners mine and take a water sample and some geiger counter readings to get a better understanding of how toxic these mines are. if we could get a water sample, this would be the 1st time anybody has ever gotten that information. so we are at the core corners mine. we just went to the entrance and we're going to do a quick geiger counter rating and stealing a find out. just about being here, hip irma over there is actually manmade. it's where they put other than doing bass with northwest georgia

and self regulated. nobody really knows how much radar and other things they're dumping into the water and getting a water sample from inside the mines. the only way to truly find out normally these areas are off limits and today or opportunity had arrived. we side to go in and take a look in ah

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