Re: Phosphate mining

Good Morning Alan!

Thank you for your comments.  I do appreciate you.  

If you wouldn't mind, please, go to todays Sarasota Herald Tribune's
front page... the hyper link is so long... I'll just suggest go to
http://www.heraldtribune.com then, click on Sarasota... then, if you
would click on the little window at the top right of the page that
says search.  Type in Long Shadow and be sure the window beside it
says Today.  That is the shortest way to navigate there.
That front page article is what we in so close proximity to the
phosphate mines are worried about.  Perhaps, if you lived here you
might have a bit more appreciation of our plight.  I'm not sure I'm a
wacko (but then everything is relative) for being concerned.  I am,
only, here for discussion about one of many topics that I have grown
very fond of.... earth.  I come to you, the teachers, the experts for
insight to the why's of things.

I am waving a white flag of truce, Alan.  You are the experts!  I am
just an artist that loves a healthy life. I have not had the advantage
of an extensive degree.  Never was into the wacky drug culture.  I'm
just a country girl trying to get an education.  Still...!  A few of
my friends that I went to school with in the 60's and 70's after they
got their PHD's fled to Montana in hopes of trying to find a clean,
unblemished, unstacked back to nature balanced habitat.. Remember, the
group that got together back about that time?  I don't remember their
name.  They, only, made one song but it soared to the top of the
charts!  It was called "In the Year 2525".  Well, Alan,... that's a
bit exaggerated but ... we are still concerned about our mother earth
and where's the harmony in technology and nature going to go...

If you would, Alan, or anyone listening, please, comment on the
articles in today's Sarasota Herald Tribune.

Thank you, 
(some friends call me Carl E., more friends and my family - what
little's left, calls me Carlee)
Savebrokefolks.com
   



Alan Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 20 Nov 2003 08:13:19 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >"that 20 tons of a specialty chemical known as tributyl
> >phosphate, or TBP, was shipped from China to the North Koreans.  It
> >further stated that the chemical has both commercial and military
> >applications and U.S. intelligence officials believe the TBP will be
> >used to extract material for nuclear boms from the North Korea's
> >stockpile of spent nuclear reactor fuel....
> 
> TBP is indeed used for extraction of metals, though that's a very
> low-volume use of phosphates. Those metals include uranium.
> 
> I have to ask: Why didn't you include this detail in your first post?
> Why have you still not provided a link to the article you reference?
> For anyone interested, it's at
> 
>  http://www.ceip.org/files/nonprolif/templates/article.asp?NewsID=3871
> 
> You now quote the article as saying that the TBP came from China,
> whereas your first post clearly implied that it came from the US and
> that it was monetary justification for the destruction of the
> environment in the Gulf of Mexico, and even "descruction (sic) of our
> beautiful coast, land, water supply and contaminate the air?" 
> 
> You ask us "(Please, don't twist what I question to bring in a
> tangent)" but you come across as a typical environmentalist wacko.
> 
> Give references, do some research on your own, don't present only the
> facts and interpretations which suit you, avoid interpretations and
> loaded words, and you can learn a lot on the technically oriented
> newsgroups.