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Long term effects of uranium mining not worth the few jobs

the long-term damage and ill effects, which inevitably result from uranium mining and milling, are not worth the few local jobs, if any, and the temporary boom-bust economy that would result.

Davis opposes uranium mining in Pittsylvania, Alta Vista Journal, Jesse Pyrant Andrews, December 29, 2010 It is most important that Henry Davis be elected to the Senate seat recently vacated by Mr. Hurt. Hank Davis is the only politician who has had the courage and good sense to say that uranium mining would not be a viable course of action for Pittsylvania County or for the commonwealth.

He was here in the 1980s when the uranium issue first came to the forefront. He has studied uranium mining and its effect on communities where it has occurred and is still occurring, both in the United States and in foreign countries as well.

He has taken a common sense approach to the concept of uranium mining and has seen beyond the promises of jobs and economic recovery for Pittsylvania County that the uranium industry has put forth as a certainty. Hank Davis has looked at both sides of the equation and decided, wisely, that the long-term damage and ill effects, which inevitably result from uranium mining and milling, are not worth the few local jobs, if any, and the temporary boom-bust economy that would result.

The black and white statistics of uranium mining all over the world clearly demonstrate that that industry has left a legacy of health problems, environmental damage and mountains of toxic waste, which must be maintained forever at the expense of the taxpayers of Pittsylvania County.

Uranium is a short-term gamble of the worst kind. Hank Davis sees that and is willing to publicly declare that he will stand against the other politicians who have fallen in line behind the uranium bandwagon. His opponent, on the other hand, has yet to state any position about uranium other than to say, like all the others, that he is awaiting the results of the “study.”..

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December 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general