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Many Oppose Uranium Jobs
ABC 13 (video) 02/09/09 reporter: Sarah Bloom producer: Amy Fosterfolks are worried about the side effects. Virginia Uranium Incorporated is pumping the economic benefits, in the form of 300 to 500 jobs, with starting salaries of $65,000 to $70,000. With having a job almost a luxury these days, news of hundreds of possible openings is eye opening……………………………But that enthusiasm is terrifying to people like Eloise Nenon.  She’s spent hours fighting the mining industry. Eloise Nenon, Against Mining – “In areas where they have uranium mining you have horrendous birth defects, you have rampant lung cancer, and many other physical problems.”………………Breathing puts your health at a price right now, so it’s we’ve got to decide what’s more important.” For Nenon, and others opposed to mining, that’s a frightening realization. Barbara Hancock, Against Mining – “As a nurse, I feel any amount of money wouldn’t be worth living in those conditions.”

Many Oppose Uranium Jobs|ABC 13

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February 10, 2009 - Posted by | politics, USA

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  1. It’s not that anyone is opposing the prospect of jobs or is necessarily anti-mining, but it’s the location of this mine that makes the risks so much more significant. We’ve been told that the ISL process (which industry describes as the more “benign” method of mining) probably would not work with the geology in Pittsylvania County, which means open-pit mining (which currently isn’t being done anywhere in the US). It’s also in a rural but populated area in a region where people are dependent on private well water. This region also is prone to severe and sometimes unpredictable weather, such as “high wind warnings,” flash flooding, tornadoes, etc.; It’s an area where tropical storms have dumped inches of rain from when they’ve tracked up the Gulf or in from the Atlantic.

    Concerned's avatar Comment by Concerned | February 10, 2009 | Reply


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