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Uranium mining – an immoral investment

Uranium industry untenable By Leo Kurtenbach, The StarPhoenix May 30, 2011 In 2009, Dan Perrins chaired Future of Uranium meetings across the province to look into the future of uranium mining in Saskatchewan.

This took place at a time when the uranium industry anticipated ballooning profits, if nuclear power would be used to develop our province’s oilsands.

Approximately 80 per cent of those attending the meetings or making written presentations opposed the expansion of nuclear power, however.

The uranium industry has the support of people in government, universities, and the corporate sector. Powerful corporations influence the media through advertising.

Therefore it is necessary for citizens to inform themselves of the real dangers and costs of using nuclear power.

Although the nuclear catastrophe in Japan’s Fukushima area shocked the world, it was just one more in the long list of nuclear “accidents” over the past half century.

Attempts by the Japanese government to minimize the horrors of that accident are evidence reactors and the people who support them are out of control.

Over millions of years, all forms of life, including humans, have evolved with the presence of natural radiation. But the recent onslaught of additional levels of radiation and nuclear accidents is causing greatly increased numbers of cancer and deaths.

Earth can’t continue to be subjected to nuclear disasters, nuclear waste, the bombs, or depleted uranium weapons.

The nuclear industry is not safe, it is not clean, and it is not cheap.

Canada is the largest exporter of uranium in the world. It sells wheat for life and uranium for death.

Uranium industry untenable

May 31, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general