Steve Pieczenik - Stasia Opus 1 Chemours Aired: 2019-10-16 Duration: 03:41 [00:00:01] Hey, citizens of Bradford County, Florida, Clay County, Alachua County, and Putnam County. [00:00:07] I'm Stasha, the other half of Dr. [00:00:09] 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. [00:00:21] 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. [00:00:35] And Chemours is kind of a tricky, evil company. [00:00:38] Here's their logo here. [00:00:40] Almost looks like a personal hygiene product logo, I think. [00:00:43] But anyway, Chemours used to be DuPont, but they had to change their name because of all kinds of legal reasons. [00:00:48] Anyway, Chemours does not have a good reputation, but they still want to expand mining. [00:00:55] And of course, our commissioners and everyone else is saying, oh, Camorra's new mining project, more jobs, more jobs, more wealth. [00:01:04] Just like some of the commissioners in Bradford County promised more jobs, more wealth for a trailer park development. [00:01:12] Oh, I mean an RV park development. [00:01:14] And did that happen? [00:01:15] No. [00:01:16] We have a big hole in the ground, but we don't see any jobs. [00:01:20] OK, so let's go back to the subject at hand. [00:01:22] And Camorra's had some kind of wishy-washy filing that said, oh, we're going to present this. [00:01:27] No Q&A, just we're going to present this and we want to expand mining. [00:01:31] Well, do the citizens really know what's going on? [00:01:35] We're not sure. [00:01:36] Most of the people we called said, I never heard of such a thing. [00:01:39] And the people on Crystal Lake, one of our beautiful lakes, will be totally impacted by additional mining by Chemours. [00:01:46] Now, does anyone here know about Chemours in North Carolina? [00:01:52] Do we know that North Carolina is actually suing Chemours for poisoning their drinking water? [00:01:57] Shouldn't we know something about that? [00:01:59] But no, of course we don't, because it's kept quiet. [00:02:03] 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. [00:02:13] But again, corporate accountability. [00:02:16] Are they accountable? [00:02:17] Is Cremors accountable? [00:02:18] Probably not. [00:02:19] Now, let's go back to the commissioner's, elected officials' accountability. [00:02:24] We have this little problem in Bradford. [00:02:26] We have a fire station, a brand new fire station that was supposed to be paid for by the trailer park developers. [00:02:33] Oh, I mean RV park developers. [00:02:35] And this fire station was only going to cost $250,000. [00:02:39] Well, guess what? [00:02:40] The fire station cost almost a million dollars, $941,000. [00:02:45] And the inspector says... [00:02:48] It can't even be a fire station. [00:02:51] It's a warehouse. [00:02:53] Now, what commissioner should be held accountable for that? [00:02:56] I say Danny Riddick should be held accountable. [00:02:59] He was an elected official and he pushed this firehouse saying that it was going to lower our insurance premiums. [00:03:06] It'll be so much better. [00:03:08] And now the fire guys and EMT guys can't even be in there because it's technically just a warehouse. [00:03:14] So how does this happen? [00:03:15] 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? [00:03:26] 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. [00:03:40] Thank you very much.