{"id":622,"date":"2018-08-29T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=622"},"modified":"2018-08-29T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:25:23","slug":"mosaic-desoto-commission-to-hold-talks-on-mine-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic, DeSoto Commission To Hold Talks On Mine Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DeSoto County Commission agreed this week to enter into mediation with Mosaic over the phosphate company&#8217;s attempt to get approval to rezone 14,000 acres to allow phosphate mining.\n<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners voted 4-1 on July 25 to deny the request.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mosaic officials formally requested mediation in an Aug. 14 letter to the commission, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc-2.com\/story\/38971465\/desoto-county-enters-mediation-with-mining-company\">news reports<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The prospect that the mediation may result in a reversal of the July 25 vote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/ArcadianNews\/posts\/?ref=page_internal\">has angered mining opponents<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The principal issues in this debate over mining include water use, protection of the Peace River and its tributaries and loss of native habitat and productive farmland.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two major landowners are seeking protection via conservation easements for ranches in this area of the Peace River Basin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DeSoto County Commission agreed this week to enter into mediation with Mosaic over the phosphate company&#8217;s attempt to get approval to rezone 14,000 acres to allow phosphate mining. Commissioners voted 4-1 on July 25 to deny the request. Mosaic officials formally requested mediation in an Aug. 14 letter to the commission, according to news [&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-622","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\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}