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Legal action against approval of Wyoming uranium mine

Group sues over planned Wyo. uranium mine, Wyoming Business Report By MJ Clark November 12, 2012 — CHEYENNE — The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance filed suit in federal court in Cheyenne last week to contest federal approval of a uranium mine in southwest Wyoming….

the Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
failed to abide by both their own sage grouse policy and a Wyoming
executive order; and violated federal laws in approving the Lost Creek
uranium mine.

The Alliance’s allegations include BLM failed to take a hard look at
how the mine would affect sage grouse, pocket gophers and pygmy
rabbits. It claims that the nearly-finished access road to the Lost
Creek site is too close to a sage grouse breeding ground, or lek.

According to the Alliance’s Facebook  posting, the Lost Creek project
is sited inside a safe grouse Core Area in the Red Desert. “If we win,
we will set a precedent that unlimited loopholes cannot be offered to
allow the industrialization of Core Areas,” the posting read. “An
adverse ruling [will] serve as a signal that the Core Area policy is
ineffective at protecting sage grouse habitats.”
http://www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/article.asp?id=64144

November 15, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, Uranium, USA