Piney Point remains perhaps the most egregious example of the Florida phosphate industry’s power over .the State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection. Because of jobs and money provided, companies like Mosaic are allowed to […]
Your aquifer is now threatened by a new risk, orchestrated by bad decisions by different groups, among them Manatee County and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Of course we must add the phosphate companies, […]
Nice to see OSFR quoted by newscasters regarding environmental issues instead of the go-to guy Audubon, just for a change. Also nice to see news people reading our website. Not so nice to see […]
Manatee County, aided and abetted by the main culprit in this mess — the DEP, has opted to take the easy way out and dump the unwanted process water which is atop the gypstack […]
We certainly hope Mr. Herb Donica can follow through on his goal to shut down the Piney Point gypstack and make it safe. Something is really whacky here in Florida. The state has already spent […]
We have mentioned the irony here as our Department of Environmental Protection is suing the Piney Point owners for the very thing they themselves are guilty of. The incompetence and malfeasance of our DEP […]
We believe that HRK Holdings, current caretaker of Piney Point, should be sued for damage the gypstack has done. But it seems an incredible bit of irony that the Department of Environmental Protection has […]
Who has been remiss in the Piney Point mess? Plenty of people and especially the Department of Environmental Protection. And one more time, the DEP. And we could ask also, why did Manatee County allow […]
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