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oh, also a to satisfy their wall street investors. no parent should have to see what i saw. if you're denying payment for someone's care, your make life and death decision and determine to get to live and who dies. to me that's best getting away with murder. also happening tonight, the fight continues in manatee county. hosea 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 harm, it's our natural resources. it's our very precious land and water dang was among the doesn't. 2 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
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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 missouri, the 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 a 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 is decided to take them to court. you know this, i mean, it must be extremely stressful. this process, oh yeah, mining is stressful. if i say my stress or what it does, take me anyway just to your household. i mean i my wife and i was had
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a lot of issues. you know, she, she feels like you 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 mm was 8 matchers themselves. they then give them a 1000 those results to the county. and then they can just as okay, met the criteria. those wells were placed in the conservation area where they violated their own work in one interesting aspect of music 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 burns 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 opens up the destruction. when asked the guy is why there
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was no warning signs about the radioactivity or 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 involuntarily. i, this is a tower that a crew is 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 were here for a week working on a project up there. and every day i came and shut down them. now i just says, you know, this is a dangerous thing out here, but none of them there. no warning signs were here on property. they just say we can't trespass there is, there is a radioactivity in the area and nothing, nothing. this is 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.
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right, right. friday i could talk about it. and i, you know, we, we like, we like with what we're exactly are we looking at here is, has this phosphate extraction that took place in april by july. they were out of here. okay, to see how much acreage they check out of here. over here is is where. busy they bring out a slurry and they hit it with
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a water cannons. and that's the result of that buy a product right there that they didn't take out of here. that is the actual product right there that they're mining exists. so this is a ban, like i mean they just stop production on it. go out, they're done another and another day, 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 day 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 back. right back here, which i believe of lymph nodes. so that's the 1st thing and anyhow it sets in, within maybe being around that dust in their pollution within like 10 minutes,
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15 minutes. i also have a headache in australia, this a slight pain in my side. the longer that we were in those mines, so not really feeling well tonight. so the end result, a phosphate process is after the clean down in separated the phosphate from the left over uranium and other radioactive cancer causing toxic materials. they released back into the water. they have some material that the ph does, 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 gas 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
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water from the aquifer is a process that will take years. we've gone from 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 burrage nash bond looks like the little holes and already a stone bay did. and that water safely sleeping, rattled down into a route on 3 ronald blue, saying it's that lamps don't. each said a quickly. so is it a cave layer. quickbooks probably more worst roll processes, the juke some sports because the suits the mastery of order for your students own
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more. mobile jackson still works. going to be on the school in the world photo for her boys. and were you shouldn't, shouldn't all those people to pull news is worse for each michigan. it's cold before paul for school or k. sure. resources not to go for total war for angela, contains full foreclosure for all, for going home to vote on you know, over and over the world. people are already a, i'm in polk county, florida,
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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, ah, do you have a miniature indiana jones in your family? if so, it's journey through the path when you visit them all very fast, they need a b. this is a big point. larry, 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 coco bank. they'll have arts and crafts here. is probably one of the ready most radioactive places in mulberry because you have that you have the mosaic drag line right here. well, the bucket. yes. been used. and it didn't always say mosaic on it,
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it has in the past years, this right here is where they want the kids to, you know, and look for sharks. they say this is, this is average like level at 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 it 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, your 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 a metal. can you chase a 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 in viet, we're living in this every day as higher radiation treatment. we have now kids come
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here because of our health surveys. we found out people who just live within a certain radius and it gets back to 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 we were over. a large percentage of the children in his area have autism. there's a. 6 there's birth defects, there's, there's miscarriages, heart disease, high blood pressure to make one in this area. kidney figures are big when long cancer, huge. i've had love to my breast. i've had to biopsies before i was 40, and i've had sister, it turned into 2 words on my ovaries. i had 2 boyfriends to one, died her return 44 lung cancer in brain cancer and throw kit, he suffocated did it. and then i had somebody else, i was
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a close to and he would have been 52 when he died. died. 3rd, kids are so you don't have to necessarily work as a mind. you have to live around or drinking water, or near will the soil they generate hazardous waste, where you are active, waged with everything they dump, calls into the ground, and migrates, has to go somewhere, and then migrate to example. lake okeechobee, it goes with the land ocean and it goes to the gulf and mexico, the red tide. karen, the brothers, that's the one that's out in the ocean. knees locks you come to the oxide and phosphorus. yes. one of the process is flow through the cracks and the ground like this wells. now these cracks, like a bunch of roads and highways on to the ground. you have fractures,
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a horizontal vertical angles. that's how it was produced. so the water takes goes, it says, i think i'll go down here and it goes over here, but ultimately got to the ocean. ah, us, things that have happened in the world were being done by people who had a great vision of how society can be better than that. great vision is typically the less time to see and re presentation is not real. it doesn't take into account any of the complexity of reality, the subtlety of how various and complex people i put them into categories as this love is bad, we'll get rid of them. you know, and change is an organic process. change is an evolution and the opposition is not to jean. the status and everything must stay the same and everything must be radically changed. and radical changes knocked away with
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with with mm. laura means everything to me. i've been on the water since i was
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a child. i live here in matlab shave florida, where i've, you choir a life dream. vonny the small mom and pop motel. 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 live dolphins, vanity's marching up on our beaches all summer long. devastating are the mar mcnair economy as those phosphorus products to make their way in the waterway to feed the site, 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 over $400.00 sea turtles and tons of miscellaneous fish that were killed this year. behind that
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was economic meltdown. the fort myers beach was a ghost town. people are lining 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 our sink hole in central florida, where 260000000 gallons flushed into another knock over those encore for eventually make their way into our, our coastal waters. freighting basically gasoline on a fire to feed the red tide as it approaches our coast. red ties naturally occurring, but the mass of blooms that we have are unnatural, and they're being fed by the unification of our waterways through phosphate nitrogen. hello everyone,
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my colleagues that they hillsboro county board of county commissioners and i are proud to walk out of 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 and it marks an important milestone in our rise as a global business destination. hillsboro county has experienced tremendous growth and our financial professional services i. t and manufacturing sector about our cars paid industry, which dates back to the 18 eighty's continues to thrive, the export of phosphate products and relate a phosphate shipments played a key role in port tampa bay's growth over the last 100 years. so thank you mosaic . i'm just mad enough adam, did i was just going to fight him to the bay. i dive in thinking by having to put my body down here in
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a swap so that if anything happens after were gone and mosaic wanted this property, they can't do they own that property over to the side here and the property here, but they can't get a drag line on it because it be too close to my house. mm mm. i 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 exposure, my grandkids and my children. i have half a thyroid now. and my daughter has how she motos.
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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 on her face. that's how we found that her thyroid gone nerves was right there as long as she lives on the property mosaic. not allowed to touch it with the brothers the dusk. she surrounded him all 4 sides by mine, which he have off gibb symptoms, then travelled airborne to all the surrounding areas for miles and miles, which gives off 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 or have we own 50 acres and 50 leased and he could not glass at our house because we were held hostage to the death. ah
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oh, i was starting to feel a little disheartened. nobody from missouri called me back. none of the doctors i reached out to would call me back in. absolutely. nobody would give me information on moseto or environmental pollution. so i decided to try the freedom of information act as i had heard, mosaic also sells their uranium and found that their subsidiary, c. f 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,
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a trying to reach eric crowns. i'm calling regarding a point in a website. i have a few additional questions. if you can give me a call back, my number 703699. so 76, 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 day to 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 of his we closed at the moment, i very may not be here yet. so we're gonna head up why i was just getting some pictures around the area. i thought i'd stop by and introduce myself. my name is eric. i just wanted to say hi heather. how are you
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doing? hi. i'm trying to stop by and say in person hello. busy okay, you know, i was just getting shots of like downtown, you know, getting a small town. so yeah. okay. what does that have to do with our business? so are you, i mean, yeah, but i'm here in town. yeah. well, not all of our operations. but like you would be a better, i think, reflection of our current operations just because he's been mining so long and hardy county up here. oh okay. yeah, i'm looking to permit here years away from having any operations or employees here and just that. okay, so you guys are setting a camp for future shop for? yeah, i mean, yeah, we have an office here. we have an office, i want to, like i said, i was hoping maybe be here and you know, i could just stay high in person. okay. nice to meet you think? all right, no worries. have a good one. yeah
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. that still 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 you know, it's interesting. they're definitely paying attention. i'm 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. as one of the biggest employers it has such deep ties to mining. you can actually see a drag line in their seal, in $1081.00 at the p 8 in an environmental impact study to see how phosphate mining
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would actually affect the surrounding areas. they came to the conclusion that if they were to go ahead and build these facilities, there 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 hyler right now, and we don't know exactly who those people worked for. but the person that told me, i trust the 100 percent. so i just, i, you know, again, because i noticed that i was starting to be followed by white
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trucks, mostly white pick up trucks. occasionally some g, m c's. but no matter where i went with 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 that mosaic security company uses all white trucks. i've been told from numerous journalists about the harassment that mosaic does and how mosaic, or it's really hard to keep an eye on anybody speaking out against a. this is part of us being followed always by these white trucks. mm. close. if they were basically stopped to visit us. the timing was really unfortunate cuz we excited to go back to the 4 corners mine
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and take a water sample and some geiger counter reasons 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 corners mine. we just went to the entrance and we're going to do a quick geiger countering and stealing a find out. just about being here. it's deborah over there is actually manmade. it's where they put other than doing das walker and being self regulated. nobody
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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 ah, ah,
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ah, you talk with my with water with wasn't, it's the department was training that he's in school. she'll machine that i get with. no, i mean, unless you put that amount with the theme years per hour or so on, you with ah,
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