Linda... If I had been willing to pull a name out of my hat, it would have probably been Dow. But frankly I don't remember at all, and that name probably just came to my mind because of it's production of Agent Orange for the Vietnam War. Occidental is surely a good candidate. Monsanto would do... or that French company that owned the huge gypsum pile that used to (and may still for all I know) teeter and collapse into Tampa Bay and kill all of those fish every time it rained hard. The possibilities are extensive, and all the same to me. We don't need most of the crap they make. It's mostly wasted and thrown away. But as long as they market, we consume (the very earth itself)... create mildly radioactive gellid pools of mud that will exist for millenia where real land once stood, and slowly foul our own nest... so long as we do these things... we seal a very bad fate of our descendants in the not very distant future. To me, that's sort of the opposite of genealogy. I would call it extinctionology (to coin a term). It doesn't matter which corporation it is. Corporations are a portable shell game, and the suckers (i.e., most people) never win. Florida is already extensively riddled with enormous open pits full of mine tailings. They used to be blatently visible. My perception is that they are often well hidden today, but boy are they invidious. My guess is that all of Florida will be strip mined within another 100 years. But I have no real information. I made that estimate up. The thing about the Okeechobee/Suwannee area is that it is/was basically pristine. RW Linda Johns wrote: > Are you referring to Occidental Chemical? If so, they mined a large > portion of Hamilton county. That plant now belongs to PCS Phosphate. > > Linda Johns in Lake City