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Florida Phosphate Mining And The Public Trust Doctrine
Florida’s elected officials may be overlooking navigable waterways and riparian lands laws. Elected officials may be permitting Florida’s phosphate industry to strip mine large tracts of public land. These large tracts of land hold public waterways and lands based on Florida’s Public Trust Doctrine.
Read MoreFlorida Sinkholes Created By Phosphate Mining
Sinkholes are known to occur inside phosphogypsum stacks due to the added weight created by the “stack”. The stacks are also radioactive creating environmental hazards in and around all phosphate facilities. The stacks hold billions of gallons of toxic radioactive waste and historically are susceptible to failing, creating severe environmental impacts to properties adjacent to mining facilities.
Read MoreFlorida Phosphate Industry Practices Severely Disturb Navigable Waterways?
Florida, also known as the “Sunshine State” receives tremendous amounts of rain year after year. Unfortunately, Florida’s phosphate industry wastes enough freshwater to create severe water shortages yearly in the Tampa Bay area since 1992.
Read MorePhosphate Industry Strip Mining Central Florida Watersheds
Florida’s riparian lands and navigable waterways are being decimated by phosphate industry draglines on a daily basis. Florida’s elected officials “permit” phosphate industry officials to strip mine in central Florida’s watersheds degrading drinking water quality and quantity.
Read MorePhosphate Industry Siege On Alafia River And Watersheds
The Tampa Bay estuary, Alafia River, other local tributaries and watersheds are known to be “navigable waterways” or public domain. Phosphate industry officials historically cause severe environmental impacts called dead zones in the Alafia River and the Tampa Bay estuary in and around Riverview, Florida.
Read MorePhosphate Mining In The Myakka River Watershed
Phosphate mining operations in the Myakka River watersheds are detrimental to drinking water quality and quantity. Thousands of acres of pristine environmentally freshwater resources are being stripped from the central Florida earth.
Read MoreFlorida Riparian Lands And Navigable Waterway Rights
Florida’s elected officials pander to phosphate officials while destroying riparian lands and navigable waterways. The Peace River and watersheds are examples of riparian lands and navigable waterways being plundered by the phosphate industry. It seems Florida’s elected officials stand on unsound principles.
Read MorePhosphate Mining The Peace River Watershed Basin
Peace River watersheds and basins are in danger of extinction caused by severe environmental impacts by Florida’s phosphate industry. Over six million people in Central Florida are in danger of losing their freshwater resources due to Florida’s phosphate strip mining industry.
Read MoreFlorida Rivers, Springs, Lakes, And Aquifers Are Navigable Waterways With Riparian Rights?
The Peace River and area watersheds are navigable waterways with riparian rights. The state owns navigable waterways within Florida boundaries. West Central Florida is where the Peace River and area watersheds are located. Florida’s phosphate industry officials may continuously neglect Florida’s navigable waterways and riparian rights of others, daily.
Read MoreFlorida’s Phosphate Industry Officials Display Little Concern For Florida Riparian Waterways
Florida’s phosphate industry destroys riparian waterways without concern for environmental laws. Public waterways are terminated daily for the phosphate ore just beneath the surface. At the same time, phosphate industry officials bolster their reclamation projects as successful. However, phosphate officials do not tell the whole truth about their unscrupulous deeds.
Read MoreFlorida Riparian Waterways Destroyed By Florida’s Phosphate Industry
Florida’s phosphate industry owns more land in central Florida than exists in the state of Rhode Island. The industry destroys the natural landscape causing severe water shortages, pollutes natural resources of freshwater, and ultimately destroys all riparian waterways (public waterways) in the landscape they strip mine.
Read MoreWho Owns Florida's Natural Freshwater Resources?
Freshwater resources are owned by the state where they reside. Using large volumes of freshwater daily is overseen by state officials, Florida in this case. State issued permits are required to pump large volumes of freshwater from Florida’s aquifer systems. However, Florida’s phosphate industry completely disregards Florida’s riparian water rights laws and is “permitted” to pump unmetered fresh aquifer water daily.
Read MoreFlorida Phosphate Mitigation Dilemma
Florida‘s phosphate industry officials state mitigating severe landscape disturbances and new land reclamation policies will construct the once strip mined landscape for “beneficial use” as defined by Florida’s Environmental Protection Agency, EPA officials. Industry officials claim to have new technologies designed to meet state land reclamation requirements. However, the new technologies have not been made public.
Read MoreCentral Florida Watersheds Worry Four County’s In Florida Based On Phosphate Industry Practices
Four central Florida counties are in legal battles with phosphate industry officials over strip mining thousands of acres of environmentally critical wetlands, rivers, streams, springs, and aquifers. The industry is also pumping millions of gallons of state water reserves daily. The water being consumed by the phosphate industry is causing water shortages for the citizens of central Florida since 1992.
Read MorePhosphate Permits, Altman Tract, Manatee County Florida
West Central Florida is where phosphate industry and local government officials are continuing to litigate in Florida courts. Industry officials are in court because of denied strip mining permits by Manatee County, Florida. The total amount being asked for in court by phosphate officials is over $600 million.
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