it's our very precious land. and water dang 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 vicente 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 $16000.00 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. sir garrett has decided to take them to court. you know this, i mean, it must be extremely stressful. this process all yeah, mining is stressful. foster 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 for, you know, some things that 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 hm. was 8 managers themselves, they then give them those of those results to the county and then a county. okay. you met the criteria. those wells were placed in the conservation area where they violated their own work. one interesting aspect of mosaic is their masters of disguise. so here's just the 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 opens 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. i. this is a tower that a crew was at, and 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 down them. now i just said, you know, this is a dangerous thing out here, but none of them there. no warning signs were on here on property. they just say we can't trespass there is there is radioactivity in 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. right. right. i don't like to talk about it. and i, you know, we like it. we like to talk with where exactly are we looking at here is this phosphate extraction. it 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 they bring out the slurry a hit it with the water cannons. and that's the result of that by product right there, that they didn't take out of here. that is the actual product, right? they did their mining exists. so this is of in limbo, 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 and 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 fat, right that here which i believe of lymph nodes. so that's the 1st thing in, in how it sets in, within maybe being around that dust and that 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 that phosphate process is after you've cleaned out and separated the phosphate from the leftover uranium and other radioactive cancer causing toxic materials. they 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. pot 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 burrage last bond looks like the little holes and already a stone bay. not water st. sleeping rattled down into a rattling through the ronald blue, saying it's that lamps don't each said it quickly. so is it a, b, b, a n k lane, probably more work role processes. the jukes in sports because the sister was born a mastery of florida for students own more. mobile jackson still works very good. to be honest about school in the world. well, talking about where are you shouldn't, shouldn't offer those a newspaper is worse for each michigan. it's cold, paul. paul, paul, paul ward t shirt resorts was not to go for total war for angela contains full foreclosure for all for going home through june to vote to you. ringback over and 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 notice her 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 in the little cocoa thing. they'll have arts and crafts here. is probably one of the ready most radioactive places in mulberry because you had that you had the mosaic drag line right here. well, the bucket. yes. renews. 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 you know, and look for sharks. they say this is, this is average like level at the same sulfate and all that 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 readings 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 say in your 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 floor, you'll probably get a headache later. viet, we're living in this every day and it's higher than radiation treatment. yeah, yeah. our kids come 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, there's birth defects, there's, there's miscarriages and heart disease, high blood pressure that make one in this area. kidney fingers a big when lung cancer. huge. i've had lots of 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 from who returned, 44 lung cancer in brain cancer and throw kit, he suffocated, did that. and then i had somebody else i was close to and he would have been 52 when he died the data 3rd cancer. so you don't have to necessarily work at the mines. you have to live around 2 or drinking water or near with the soil. they generate hazardous waste radioactive waste, but everything they dump falls into the ground and migrates, has to go somewhere. and in migrates tune, example, lake okeechobee, it goes to the atlantic ocean and it goes to the gulf of mexico, out of a red tide. karen, neo brothers, that's the one that's out in the ocean. knees, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and phosphorus is where the phosphorus it's flows through. his bare is cracked in the ground like this at wells. now he's cracks, like a bunch of roads and highways under the ground. you have fractures, a horizontal vertical in angles as though 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. ah christmas, the traditional yuletide 100 in this year making this traditional with a special christmas guide me christmas tolerance diversity guide. we all know that christmas is a family holiday and makes oral your parents are properly numbered. i follow the agenda and make us no woman instead of snowman, or even better, that this new person designed for themselves. ah, no gifts, no don't, or teddy best prepare your children for the brave new world. to remember, diversity is not a t i o is no longer an appropriate cost. you this is appropriation, zoological appropriation offensive to the day community. mm hm. and obviously santa oh has to be cancelled. i because he is a wisest gender male who amuses mrs. claus discriminates against children based on behavior, whereas red, which is a communist color, makes children sit on his lap, makes people destroy trees and exploit sales. so sorry kids center is not coming to town anymore. oh, these instructions stick to the spirit of christmas. you decide? oh ah ah, laura means everything to me. i have it on the water since i was a child. i live here in matlab. shay, florida, where i've you choir life dream. vonny the small mom and pop motel. the 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 and sea life dolphins, vanity's margin up on our beaches all summer long. devastating r m r. mcnair 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. over $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 arc over those aquifers eventually make their way into our, our coastal waters trading. 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 with them are unnatural, and they're being fed by the unification of our waterways through phosphate nitrogen. hello everyone, my colleagues that they hillsborough county board of county commissioners and i are proud to walk on 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 crop new treatment. this is our 1st fortune 500 recruitment. when in march, an important milestone and our rise has a global business destination. hillsboro county has experienced tremendous gravity in our financial professional services i. t and manufacturing sector that our cost paid industry, which dates back to the $18.00 eighty's continues to thrive. the export, a phosphate products and related phosphate 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 said i was just going to fight him to the bay. i dive in thinking by having to put my body down here in this walk so that if anything happens after we're gone and mosaic wanted this property, they can't do they own that property. 7 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 say they don't, they say i don't care about it, but they spent what 1st 10 years or 12 years that we lived on the property, one of their buyers pallet is trying to get us to sale. but we love 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 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 right there. as long as she lives on the property mosaics. not allowed to touch with the problems that does. she surrounded on all 4 sides by mine, which he about japan travels airborne to all the surrounding areas for miles and miles, which gives of radar and which is undetectable when breed. then it's the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer in the united states, killing over 20000 people. you can see it stay in the house a lot because he was he has one 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. mm. in google me. i was starting to feel disheartened. 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 mosaic or environmental pollution. so i decided to try the freedom of information act i 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 that eric crown i'm calling regarding a point to record actually real website. i have a few additional questions 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 thought 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 glass them myself. so i stopped by the office. i says we closed at the moment. i very may not be here yet, so we're gonna head up like i was just getting some pictures around the area. i thought i'd stop by and introduce myself. my name is eric. i just want to say hi heather. at france, oh, are you doing? hi, i'm trying to stop by and say in person hello. busy okay, yeah, 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, what i'm hearing all town. yeah. well, not all of our operation. but why would be a better, i think, reflection of our current operations just because you've been mining so long and hardy county here. oh okay. yeah, we're looking to permit here or years away from having any operations or employees here in 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 that want to, like i said, i was hoping maybe be here and you know, i could just say hi in person. so. okay, nice to meet you think? i'll email you. all right, no worries. have a good one. yeah, that's 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? so you know, it's 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 1081 at the e. p. aden, 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 people work 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 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 of a, this is part of us being followed always by these white trucks close. if they were basically stopped to visit us, the timing was really unfortunate because 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 corners mine. we just went to the entrance and we're gonna do a quick geiger countering and stealing a find out just being here. it's deborah over there is actually manmade. it's where they put other than going fast with walker full and being 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 mind is 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. a ah so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race group is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time to sit down and talk join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess on the world politics sport. business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then for special yes today the only in the legendary mich virus, 9 author of planet ponzi mitch. nice to see happy holidays. a . the headlines, a 4 year old is caught in pepper spray as the police break up, an unclean back in march in germany in time countries across europe facing on rec ahead of new year restrictions. some parents of the u. k. accusing a hospitals of discriminating against children with down syndrome in a bit to free up beds during the cobra crisis. we hear from one mother who was off to find a do not perfect form for her son. when she said it, i, well john is that's my son's life that you're asking with or no, i mean he has down syndrome, but that's got nothing to do when we're shipping the stuff types to know the latest holding showing the motion, you ask them.

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