- April 8, 2025
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Dear Editor:
The worrisome ill-conceived proposal to build a huge “oil tank farm” in Palm Coast conjures up visions of the mayor and city council lined up on a street corner with tin cups and holding makeshift cardboard signs reading “Willing To Do Anything For Tax Revenue.”
And indeed, the mayor sure is. He’s all in. He said so. He loves the idea of a massive 12.6-million-gallon gasoline depot to be erected in our town. The 78 acre “farm” is to be constructed by a subsidiary of Grupo México. Grupo México is a huge company known to be responsible for numerous and notorious environmental disasters including 20 EPA Superfund cleanups and oil spills.
Its subsidiary, Belvedere Terminals, reportedly has no experience undertaking this kind of project making Palm Coast sort of a guinea pig. And those folks living in the Matanzas area should be especially freaked out since the depot is only around a mile or so away. Seems that the mayor and the city either failed to do an easy Google-due-diligence search. Or have they simply sold their environmental consciousness and values for tax revenue dollars?
Robert Gordon
Palm Coast
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