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Safer ways to generate jobs – we don’t want uranium mining

The handful who stand to gain financially want us with farms, homes, businesses, and families to turn a blind, trusting eye as they play Russian roulette with all that could be negatively affected.

The risks far out-weigh any possible benefit to the general public here, and others surrounding us, as well as future taxpayer expense.
There are safer ways to generate jobs, and tax revenue for this county.

Uranium mining not worth risks  http://www.wpcva.com/opinion/article_0ddf499a-4475-11e2-86de-001a4bcf887a.html , December 12, 2012 
To the editor,     We would like to sincerely thank Mr. Ben Davenport, certain members of
the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors, the water control at Virginia Beach, Virginia tourism industry, and many others for their stand on keeping the moratorium on uranium mining. We appreciate their efforts to bring to light the many risks involved in such an operation.

Those who stand to reap a substantial financial windfall want to convince the innocent public, who count on our elected officials to protect us, that they have everything under control, and allow them to move forward without opposition.

We simply do not believe it is possible for this group, which formed in 2007, to be that certain. How much mining experience do any of them have prior to this?
The handful who stand to gain financially want us with farms, homes, businesses, and families to turn a blind, trusting eye as they play Russian roulette with all that could be negatively effected.
The facts are there is no way to believe all mistakes made in other
areas anywhere with uranium mining have been improved to the point
none are possible here.
There are approximately 1,300 dangerous jobs possible, and tax dollars
to county or state, but at what future expense to the individual life
that is exposed to the radiation, and cancer it is known to cause, or
to our property values?
How much will it cost to clean up a disaster that is possible, or how
much will it cost to maintain the radioactive waste ponds that hold
the more than 85 percent waste from the mining process, which remains
radioactive for thousands of years?
The risks far out-weigh any possible benefit to the general public here, and others surrounding us, as well as future taxpayer expense.
There are safer ways to generate jobs, and tax revenue for this county.
People also need to realize if the moratorium is lifted, there are
other known uranium deposits in the Dry Fork and Brosville
communities, as well as many other areas of our state, so these waste
ponds could end up in their back yard.
In conclusion, we would like to know why anyone was allowed to even
test drill before safety concerns were addressed. –   many signatures

December 14, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general