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Pittsylvania residents not happy with uranium advertising

Residents Raise Questions About Legality Of Uranium Mining Billboard abc 13 Virginia: Jan 22, 2014   By Whitney Delbridge Pittsylvania Co., VA – A sign declaring Pittsylvania County “the future home of theworld’s safest uranium mine” has stood on Route 29 for months now, but local anti-uranium groups want to see it come down.

Anti-uranium advocate Karen Maute took a look at the state code section that relates to advertising, and this is what she found: Code 33.1-369 says advertisements cannot promote “activities which are illegal under state or federal laws”.
Another sub-section says a billboard that “advertises a county, city, [or] town…” must have “consent, in writing,” from the local governing body.
“Virginia Uranium can just keep its sign up, but just take ‘Welcome to Pittsylvania County’ off it. Don’t advertise our county as the future safest uranium mine in the world, ” Maute said……http://www.wset.com/story/24522237/residents-raise-questions-about-legality-of-uranium-mining-billboard

January 24, 2014 - Posted by | general

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