Phosfate / an Erik E. Crown documentary ; producer/director/camera/editor, Erik E. Crown.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Crown, Erik E., director, producer, editor of moving image work.

Cinema Libre Studio, publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phosphate mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Florida.

Phosphate mines and mining.

Phosphate mines and mining--Waste disposal.

Groundwater--Pollution--Florida.

Groundwater.

Cancer--Environmental aspects.

Cancer.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Burbank, CA : Cinema Libre Studio, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Cancer survivor and filmmaker Erik E. Crown joins local water activists to investigate accelerated cancer rates and other illnesses in central Florida communities, tracing the source to phosphate mining and the pollution of the state's waterways by a multinational corporation. The residents of Bone Valley Florida have cancer rates 6 times higher than the national average. This region of central Florida has the largest deposits of the naturally occurring chemical phosphorous, which is mined to make fertilizer. As the chemical is processed, using over 70 million gallons of groundwater, each ton leaves behind 5 times the amount of radioactive rock. One of the largest landholders in Florida, The Mosaic Company, owns over 300,000 acres allocated to mining.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed November 21, 2024).

OCLC:

1463729896