Oct. 16, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
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| Hey, citizens of Bradford County, Florida, Clay County, Alachua County, and Putnam County. | |
| I'm Stasha, the other half of Dr. | |
| Steve Pachenik, and I'm here to talk about a local issue, but it really does go beyond local, and it's about accountability, from corporate America accountability to elected official accountability. | |
| Tomorrow night in Stark, Florida, the county seat of Bradford County, we have a meeting where Chemours is going to make a case or just tell us that they want to expand mining to the Keystone area. | |
| And Chemours is kind of a tricky, evil company. | |
| Here's their logo here. | |
| Almost looks like a personal hygiene product logo, I think. | |
| But anyway, Chemours used to be DuPont, but they had to change their name because of all kinds of legal reasons. | |
| Anyway, Chemours does not have a good reputation, but they still want to expand mining. | |
| And of course, our commissioners and everyone else is saying, oh, Camorra's new mining project, more jobs, more jobs, more wealth. | |
| Just like some of the commissioners in Bradford County promised more jobs, more wealth for a trailer park development. | |
| Oh, I mean an RV park development. | |
| And did that happen? | |
| No. | |
| We have a big hole in the ground, but we don't see any jobs. | |
| OK, so let's go back to the subject at hand. | |
| And Camorra's had some kind of wishy-washy filing that said, oh, we're going to present this. | |
| No Q&A, just we're going to present this and we want to expand mining. | |
| Well, do the citizens really know what's going on? | |
| We're not sure. | |
| Most of the people we called said, I never heard of such a thing. | |
| And the people on Crystal Lake, one of our beautiful lakes, will be totally impacted by additional mining by Chemours. | |
| Now, does anyone here know about Chemours in North Carolina? | |
| Do we know that North Carolina is actually suing Chemours for poisoning their drinking water? | |
| Shouldn't we know something about that? | |
| But no, of course we don't, because it's kept quiet. | |
| Well, I'll put a link below this video about something called Gen X, which is one of the processes that causes the water to be poisoned in North Carolina. | |
| But again, corporate accountability. | |
| Are they accountable? | |
| Is Cremors accountable? | |
| Probably not. | |
| Now, let's go back to the commissioner's, elected officials' accountability. | |
| We have this little problem in Bradford. | |
| We have a fire station, a brand new fire station that was supposed to be paid for by the trailer park developers. | |
| Oh, I mean RV park developers. | |
| And this fire station was only going to cost $250,000. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| The fire station cost almost a million dollars, $941,000. | |
| And the inspector says... | |
| It can't even be a fire station. | |
| It's a warehouse. | |
| Now, what commissioner should be held accountable for that? | |
| I say Danny Riddick should be held accountable. | |
| He was an elected official and he pushed this firehouse saying that it was going to lower our insurance premiums. | |
| It'll be so much better. | |
| And now the fire guys and EMT guys can't even be in there because it's technically just a warehouse. | |
| So how does this happen? | |
| Where does the accountability lie with elected officials or corporations that don't do what they say they're going to do, poison our water, and try to get away with it? | |
| Please show up tomorrow in Stark, Florida, at 6 o'clock, come early, fill out a comment card, and let them know that you really want to know more about what Comores is planning to do to your drinking water and to your lakes. | |
| Thank you very much. |
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