ManaSota-88 www.manasota88.org

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ManaSota-88www.manasota88.org

• A non-profit 501.c3 public health and
  environmental organization.

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Famous And Not-So-Famous Environmental Quotes
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature
can laugh at his so called knowledge.
Thomas Edison
Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.
Ronald Regan 1981
Mining is like a search and destroy mission.
Stewart L. Udall
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Every American expects and deserves clean air,
and then we act on that belief, then we will set
an example for the rest of the world to follow
George H.W. Bush 1989
It isnt pollution thats harming the
environment. Its the impurities in our air and
water that are doing it.
George W. Bush 2002
I do not intend that our natural resources shall
be exploited by the few against the interests of
the many.
President Theodore Roosevelt
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Horse Creek
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Mosaic, the Largest Fertilizer Maker in the
United States

• Reported quarterly earnings rise of nearly six
  fold, a 493 percent jump
• A year ago, Mosaic shares were at 27, today
  nearly 114
• The average selling price of a ton of phosphate
  is up 70 percent in one year

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Phosphate Economics

• Phosphate
• Net explorer
• 0.5 Floridas Gross State Product
• Not played a significant role in Floridas
  overall economy since the early 1960s

• Peace River Basin
• 4.5 billion in tourism sales
• 38 million in Commercial Fishing
• 1.8 billion in agriculture

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Employment

• Fewer than 10,000 jobs state-wide are employed in
  the Phosphate Industry

• More than 1,000,000 are employed in the fishing,
  tourism, recreational and agricultural industries

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Potential Impacts to Regional Watershed Areas

• Peace River Total Mine Acres 104,644
• Myakka River Total Mine Acres 25,238
• Total Acres (2006 2036) 129,882
• Over the next 30 years, impacts from 130,000
  mined acres may endanger the Peace River, Myakka
  River and Charlotte Harbor

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Phosphate Accidental Spills

• 1945 Polk County Peace River Spill
• 1963 Brandon Slime Dam Failure
• 1967 Mobil Oil Retention Dike Failure
• 1971 Fort Meade Waste Spill
• 1994 IMC Global Payne Creek Mine Spill

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2004 Cargill Crop Nutrition Radioactive Clay
Waste Spill
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Tenoroc Fish Management Area
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Tenoroc

• Petroleum Contaminants, Elevated Levels of
  Radionuclides, Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and
  Manganese (known since 1984)
• Water quality, fish tissue sampling, human health
  risk assessment and ecological risk assessment
  needed
• 14 Reclaimed Sites in Florida currently are used
  by the public as Recreational Areas

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Retaining Water While Land is Mined
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Creating Lakes Where None Existed Before
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Clay Settling AreasToxic Slime Ponds
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ManaSota-88 Legal Challenges

• 1980, 1984, 1987 Gardinier Inc. (NPDES Permitting
  for Gyp Stacks)
• 1983, Estech, Inc.
• 1987 Agrico Chemical Company (wetland mitigation
  and mining impacts)
• 1989 IMC Fertilizer Gyp Stack Expansion
• 1999 Piney Point Phosphate

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ManaSota-88 Legal Challenges

• 2001 IMC Manson-Jenkins
• 2003 IMC Phosphate Section 120.68(1) F.S.
• 2004 IMC Wingate Mine NPDES
• Next ???

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Phosphogypsum Stacks
Every ton of phosphoric acid produced generates
about 5 tons of phosphogypsum
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One Billion Tons of Radioactive Waste and Adding
30 Tons a Year

• Phosphogypsum has no economic value
• Alternative uses banned by EPA since 1992
• A public health threat for 1,630 years (radiums
  radioactive decay half-life)
• Radioactive dust, arsenic, lead, cadmium,
  chromium, fluoride, zinc, antimony and copper
  toxins

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1995 IMC New Wales 15-story sinkhole
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1997 Mulberry Corporation Phosphogypsum Stack
Spill - Alafia River
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2001 Piney Point Phosphate Bankruptcy
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HBK Holdings, LLC

• Bought Piney Point for 4.3 Million
• FDEP has spent 93 million on closing costs
• Adjacent to a proposed C D Landfill
• Will assume long-term care of the site in 2010

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50 years and still no acceptable disposal
methods of PG

• FIPR proposes PG for landfill and roadbed uses
• No published scientific studies confirming safe
  uses for PG
• ManaSota-88 believes the phosphate industry
  should not be permitted to externalize the costs
  of their waste disposal problem at the expense of
  the public.

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FIPR

• The Florida Institute of Phosphate Research
• The Development and Research Arm for the
  Phosphate Industry
• An agency that has lost its focus and credibility
  and should be deauthorized and eliminated
• All of the above

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What Can Be Done?

• Strengthen Mining Reclamation Rules
• Phosphate Environmental Impact Statement
• Enforce Existing Mining Regulations
• Designate Horse Creek as an Outstanding Florida
  Water
• Reclaim Previous Mined Out Lands
• Public Involvement Make Policy makers realize
  phosphate is a limited resource of national
  significance

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Industrial Wide EIS Needed

• Cumulative Assessment not done since the 1970s
• New study paid for in part by Phosphate Severance
  Taxes and Fees
• Phosphate permitting should link mining,
  processing and phosphogypsum disposal together

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ManaSota-88www.manasota88.org

• A non-profit 501.c3 public health and
  environmental organization.