{"id":603,"date":"2018-07-25T23:43:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T03:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=603"},"modified":"2018-07-25T23:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T03:43:29","slug":"desoto-commissioners-deny-mosaic-mine-rezoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"DeSoto Commissioners Deny Mosaic Mine Rezoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DeSoto County Commission voted 4-1 Wednesday to deny a request by Mosaic to rezone 14,000 acres for a future phosphate mine.\n<\/p>\n<p>The vote came following a two-day hearing in Arcadia.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unbelievable but true,&#8221; said Marian Ryan, conservation chair for Ancient Islands Sierra and a member of Florida Sierra&#8217;s Phosphate Committee.\n<\/p>\n<p>The DeSoto County vote came a week after the Hardee County Commission and Planning and Zoning Board approved a permit for Mosaic to mine 22,854 acres in Ona in western Hardee County.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sierra opposed the expansion of mining  because of the environmental impact on wildlife habitat and the Peace River and its tributaries.\n<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate word on whether Mosaic will appeal the vote, though that seems likely.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DeSoto County Commission voted 4-1 Wednesday to deny a request by Mosaic to rezone 14,000 acres for a future phosphate mine. The vote came following a two-day hearing in Arcadia. &#8220;Unbelievable but true,&#8221; said Marian Ryan, conservation chair for Ancient Islands Sierra and a member of Florida Sierra&#8217;s Phosphate Committee. The DeSoto County vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}