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Agrium gets OK to expand
Edmonton – The largest fertilizer plant in the country has been given permission to expand, despite objections from its neighbours. The Natural Resources Conservation Board has approved an expansion at the Redwater Agrium plant, which will see its gypsum pile – which covers 1.7 square-kilometres and is about 30 metres high – almost double in […]
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Cattle Suffered Due to Fluoride
For your teeth, fluoride is a wonderful thing. Commonly used in modern toothpastes and dental rinses, it helps make teeth more resistant to decay and inhibits the production of acids that can harm teeth. In the 1950s, however, fluoride was nearly disastrous for several agricultural industries in Polk County. Cattle grew gaunt and starved. Leaves […]
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Top 10 findings of Escambia Co. Grand Jury
Here’s a look a the top 10 findings in the Escambia County grand jury report issued Tuesday: 1. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the Escambia County Utilities Authority failed to do all they could to prevent and remove pollution in Escambia County. 2. More than half of Escambia […]
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Panel raps state, federal, local agencies on Pensacola pollution
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — State, federal and local agencies failed to do all they could to prevent and remove pollution that has contaminated more than half of Escambia County’s public water wells, a grand jury said in a report Tuesday. The panel, however, issued no indictments. State Attorney Curtis Golden said the statute of limitations […]
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Survey Focuses On Health Woes, Not The Causes
PLANT CITY – There are shortcomings: The community health survey wasn’t designed by an epidemiologist, the responses are anecdotal, the ailments unconfirmed. The Tampa Tribune and WFLA, News Channel 8, survey of residents in the neighborhoods bordering Coronet Industries was an exercise in journalism, not science. We wanted to know what ailed people, not what […]
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Medical Mystery
PLANT CITY – The old gray buildings on the edge of town are a grim specter, heavy and forbidding like the fear that has enveloped this rural community. Something seems wrong here. People say they can feel it in their aching joints, their cracking bones and teeth. To some, the fear is as tangible as […]
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It’s Door-To-Door, Nose-To-Nose Journalism
PLANT CITY – People kept telling us they were sick, and they were wondering why. Residents near the Coronet Industries plant and abandoned landfills spoke of diseases and voiced fears that pollution may be to blame. Plant City commissioners heard their fears. With the 2,600-home Lakeside Station project one vote from final approval, they put […]
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Obituary. Larry Gosnell, 1923-2004
Filmmaker and environmentalist Larry Gosnell died of natural causes in Toronto on March 23. He was 80. Air of Death, his most celebrated documentary for the CBC, triggered environmental awareness in Canada in 1967 when it revealed that fluoride fumes emitted by a Southern Ontario fertilizer plant were poisoning plants and livestock in the area. […]
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ConocoPhillips to pay $70 million to settle Florida pollution suits
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) ConocoPhillips has tentatively agreed to pay $70 million to as many as 7,000 Florida Panhandle property owners who sued over pollution from the former site of a fertilizer plant. The agreement, which still needs a judge’s approval, would settle two lawsuits that contend that underground contamination has reduced property values and may […]
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Phosphogypsum Regulations Are Appropriate
I write in response to Jeff Stidham’s March 28 commentary, “Making Something Of Florida’s `Mountains,’ ” an article about phosphogypsum stacks. Central Florida phosphogypsum is an acidic, radioactive industrial waste – a public health and environmental hazard that should continue to be prohibited by state and federal agencies for use in roadbeds and agricultural uses. […]
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