[CPEO-BIF] Port St. Joe, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Homeowners protest outside St. Joe meeting

Jacksonville Business Journal
May 12, 2009

Arion and Debbie Ward bought a lot from The St. Joe Paper Co. in the 
late 1980s and built what they thought was their 3,400-square-foot dream 
house. But several years later they started to notice cracks in the 
ceiling and heard birds in the rafters.

The couple is among seven families living on the same street in Port St. 
Joe who claim in a lawsuit that the company intentionally sold them home 
sites that had been a dump site for the St. Joe Paper Mill and that the 
homes, as a result, are now sinking into the ground.

Armed with signs that read "Greed feeds the corporation/starves the 
people," "Houses on wet sod/St. Joe is a fraud" and "St. Joe sells 
sinking sand to single moms," about 40 protestors assembled Tuesday 
outside St. Joe's headquarters on Riverside Avenue. The protesters 
included residents and their families, along with their attorneys and 
representatives from the Consumer Federation of the Southeast and the 
Florida Alliance for Retired Americans. Inside the building about 40 
company executives, board members and shareholders attended the annual 
shareholders meeting.

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For the entire article, see
http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2009/05/11/daily24.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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