BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Brevard County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to request a public meeting with state environmental regulators over Blue Origin’s controversial plan to discharge industrial wastewater into the Indian River Lagoon.

The commission chambers were packed with residents opposing the aerospace company’s permit renewal request, which would allow discharge of approximately 500,000 gallons of industrial wastewater daily into an onsite retention pond that drains into the lagoon.

“This is Jeff Bezos. I’m sick and tired of billionaires playing the power game and we are insignificant. They throw us aside cause they don’t care. They get rid of us, they’ll go someplace else,” said Brevard resident Elizabeth Michaelman. “So I’m fighting for my home, as should all of you.”

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