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Sierra Club Stands By Coronet Ad
TAMPA, Fla., March 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — Following is a statement by Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope regarding a Florida ad on Coronet Industries and Bush Administration’s Superfund policy: The Sierra Club’s current television ad concerning Coronet Industries’ role in polluting communities and threatening public health in the Tampa Bay area has been falsely […]
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Coronet Plant sued by nearly 700 residents, employees
PLANT CITY, Fla. – Nearly 700 residents and employees who have lived near or worked for Coronet Industries have sued the troubled phosphate plant. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by three law firms. It is the second in six months against Coronet, which is closing the 98-year-old plant this month. The suit charges the phosphate […]
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Coronet Cancer Study Disputed
PLANT CITY – A national expert in environmental medicine and toxicology calls the state health department’s recent investigation into cancer rates near Coronet Industries “meaningless” and “irrelevant.” James Dahlgren, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles, has testified on behalf of plaintiffs in a number of lawsuits involving pollution- […]
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Emotional week for area residents
Residents made their closing, but definitely not the last remarks in a week-long hearing on what life is like in a neighborhood of ‘astronomical changes’ last week. “It was incredibly emotional,” recalled Cheryl Henkelman, a resident who was the first of nine from the northeast Strathcona County area, perusing a statement to a panel of […]
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Heartland: “a pollution ghetto”
A hearing pegging Fort Saskatchewan area residents against industry is a matter stretching beyond the scope of the community. Environmental Defense Canada, a charitable group committed to protecting the environment, is backing the residents plea to halt an Agrium proposal for a phosphogypsum stack extension at the Redwater operations plant. The fertilizer producer says halting […]
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Residents fight Agrium expansion; want controls
FORT SASKATCHEWAN – As many as 750 jobs in the region will vanish if neighbours succeed in blocking expansion at an Agrium fertilizer plant, the company says. But some nearby residents say their lives may be at stake because the plant, near Redwater, leaks fluoride and low-level radiation. Others insist at a minimum there should […]
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Families fight fertilizer plant expansion
Edmonton – Increasing the size of a gypsum pile at a fertilizer plant will put the health of those living nearby at risk, nine Fort Saskatchewan families will argue Monday morning. Agrium wants to expand its gypsum pile, which covers 1.7 square-kilometres and is about 30 metres high, by about 1.2 square-kilometres. The gypsum contains […]
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Contamination Might Make Coronet Property Unusable
PLANT CITY – Part of the Coronet Industries site might be so contaminated that it might not be safe for future use, the county’s top environmental regulator said. Testing will determine whether the holding ponds and the phosphate processing factory can be cleaned up enough, said Rick Garrity, director of Hillsborough County’s Environmental Protection Commission. […]
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Coronet Throws In Towel But Promises A Clean Site
Coronet Industries Inc. executives vow they will do the “right thing” and clean up pollution problems as they close the animal food supplement plant, which some neighbors believe is making them sick. We hope they mean it. Much is at stake. State Department of Environmental Protection officials say it could cost as much as $45 […]
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DEP Still Looking At Coronet Plant, Senators Are Told
TALLAHASSEE – An official with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection told a state Senate committee Tuesday that the agency will continue investigating how far pollution has spread beyond the boundaries of Coronet Industries. Mike Sole, DEP director of waste management, would give no details of where the investigation into the Plant City phosphate processing […]
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