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Legal action against uranium milling

Sheep Mountain files suit against uranium mill approval Telluride Daily Planet (USA) By Matthew Beaudin Editor , November 8, 2009

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“………….Sheep Mountain Alliance, a local environmental group, recently filed a lawsuit against the Montrose County Commissioners and its land use director, alleging a hopscotch of missteps in the board’s approval of a uranium mill to be built six miles outside of Paradox, Colo. Continue reading →

November 9, 2009 Posted by | 1, Legal, USA | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

No international nuclear garbage for America

Don’t import nuclear waste

Bill by Alexander, Gordon would ban such shipments

The Leaf Chronicle October 21, 2009 If a friend asked to dump his garbage in your yard because he knew you would know what to do with it, what would you say? Probably, no thanks. That’s what the United States should say to countries that want to send their nuclear waste here for processing and storage. Thankfully, Sen. Lamar Alexander and U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon of Murfreesboro are sponsoring legislation in Congress to keep other countries’ nuclear waste out of the United States. No other nation allows the importation and storage of another country’s nuclear waste. Continue reading →

October 23, 2009 Posted by | Legal, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

UK Defence Ministry opposing nuclear test veterans

Ministry of Defence bid to dodge nuclear test veterans trial MoD Oracle (UK)  18 Oct 09 Defence chiefs are appealing against a legal ruling in favour of Britain’s nuclear test veterans.They are trying to overturn a judgement in June allowing vets to sue the MoD for negligence.A thousand survivors of the blasts argued the Pacific tests’ fallout left them with cancers and rare disorders, and their children and grandchildren with birth defects. Continue reading →

October 20, 2009 Posted by | 1, Legal, UK | , , , , | Leave a comment

Court finds depleted uranium caused soldier’s cancer

Soldier’s cancer linked to Gulf War, inquest

A report is to be sent to the Defence Secretary after an inquest jury found a former soldier’s cancer was caused by service during the 1991 Gulf War.

Telegraph.co.uk By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
10 Sep 2009 The death of Stuart Dyson, a 39-year-old former soldier, from a rare from of cancer was caused by his exposure to depleted uranium used in military munitions, an inquest jury ruled.

The jury heard that Mr Dyson, a lance corporal in the Royal Pioneer Corps, cleaned tanks after the first Gulf War during a five-month deployment to the war zone.

His widow Elaine told the hearing that her husband’s health had deteriorated after he left the Army in 1992 and that he was diagnosed with colon cancer, which spread to his liver and spleen, in 2007.

Mrs Dysion, 41, said her husband, from Brownhills, West Midlands, had been “convinced” before his death that his cancer was linked to his service in the Gulf.

After the verdict was returned at Smethwick Council House, Black Country Coroner Robin Balmain said he intended to send a report on the death to the Secretary of State for Defence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6169481/Soldiers-cancer-linked-to-Gulf-War-inquest.html

September 11, 2009 Posted by | Legal, UK | , , , , , | Leave a comment

legal action to stop Grand Canyon mine

Groups say they’ll sue to stop Grand Canyon mine

Legal News September 8th, 2009

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Environmental groups have given notice that they’ll sue the federal Bureau of Land Management over its decision to allow a uranium mine to reopen near the Grand Canyon.

Canadian mining company Denison Mines Corp. says it could reopen its mine about 20 miles north of the canyon by the end of the year. Dennison received the final state permit it needed last week………………he Center for Biological Diversity, the Grand Canyon Trust and the Sierra Club argue that the BLM is relying on an old environmental analysis and isn’t considering potential impacts on endangered species.

The notice the groups filed Tuesday says they plan to file a lawsuit in 60 days.

http://blog.taragana.com/law/2009/09/08/environmental-groups-say-theyll-sue-to-stop-uranium-mine-near-grand-canyon-from-reopening-12031/

September 11, 2009 Posted by | Legal, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

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