Mining Impacts to the Human and Natural Environments

A compilation of resources and issues

Phosphate mining

The best resources to keep you up to date about phosphate mining in Southwest Florida are

People for Protecting the Peace River and

Mana-Sota-88 Manatee and Sarasota County 501c3  www.ourphosphaterisk.com

Mosaic’s public education website – www.PhosphateFlorida.com

    News and resources regarding phosphate mining:

The 2011 Area-Wide EIS for Phosphate Mining Webpage (USACOE)

Nora Demers Letter with Supplemental information (June 29, 2011)

Attachment L (Fluoride Brain Damage)

Attachment M1 (Piney Point Phosphate Releases Pittman)

Attachment M2 (Piney Point Phosphate Releases Compton)

Attachment M3 (Piney Point Phosphate Releases Rehill)

Attachment N (Ocean Report)

Attachment O1 (New Geopolitics of Food Brown)

Sierra Club Florida, Lemon Bay Conservancy 3PR and POW additional comments (April 25, 2011)

John Rehill's comments to the ACOE phosphate AEIS (April 23, 2011)

Ecology Party of Florida Letter to the AEIS

Attachment B1 (ASR inventory in Southern Florida)

Attachment B2 (Hillsborough Reservoir siting study)

Attachment B3 (CH2M Hill Taylor Creek Reservoir material)

Attachment C (Hydrofluorosilicic Acid MSDS)

Attachement D (AES letter regarding Cocoa Beach ASR)

Attachment E1 (Nonmechanical dewatering of the regional Floridan aquifer system Bacchus 2006)

Attachment E2 ((More Inconvenient Truths: Wildfires and Wetlands, SWANCC and Rapanos by S.T. Bacchus 2007)

Attachment F (Particulate AIr pollution affects heart health, research finds May 20, 2010)

Nora Demers' Letter regarding AEIS (April 22 2011)

Attachment A (generic public comment form)

Attachment B (CH2M Hill Hillsboro Reservoir Siting Study

Attachment C (State of the Science conference announcement)

Attachment D (mining background maps)

Attachment E (NEPA process and overview)

Attachment F (Water resources)

Attachment G (Wetlands adn Aquatic Resources)

Attachment H (Economic considerations)

Attachment I (Demers presentation given at State of the Science Conference Mar, 2011)

Appendix J (More Inconvenient Truths: Wildfires and Wetlands, SWANCC and Rapanos by SS.T. Bacchus 2007)

ManaSota-88 comment letter to the Team AEIS A project for Environmental Quality (April 10, 2011)

Comment Letter from Manatee County regarding the Area-wide EIS scoping (Jan 11, 2011).

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