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Uranium mining and market mayhem

goDanRiver.com 10 Oct 08 TERRY ANDREWS, R.N. I find it interesting that most of the letters that favor uranium mining seem to be written by people who are VUI investors or employees. In other words, by people who stand to reap significant financial gains if uranium is mined and milled at the Coles Hill site in Pittsylvania County.

The people that oppose uranium mining are spending their own money and countless hours trying to educate the public on the dangers of uranium mining and milling — and they don’t get paid to do that. They, like me, do it because they love Virginia and don’t want their land, water, livestock and health destroyed………………………….

a physician was quoted as saying that there is a higher incidence of cancers (lung, bone and blood), kidney problems and birth defects in areas where uranium is mined. He was endorsing a resolution in Colorado that opposes uranium mining “in geographical areas that are utilized by the farming or ranching communities or where there are human residents, due to the adverse health conditions associated with the mining process …”

In a similar article from Utah, the results of a study by a state epidemiologist determined that “Monticello residents suffered from lung cancer and stomach cancers at up to twice the normal rate over three decades, a possible legacy of a uranium mill near the town in southeastern Utah.”

Dump and Dumber
The Texas Observer by Forrest Wilder October 03, 2008 | Political Intelligence  – “………………….The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality convened the meeting to gather public input on a proposal by Waste Control Specialists to bury up to 28 million cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste in a landfill 30 miles west of Andrews. The September hearing follows the agency’s release of a draft license and environmental analysis. The documents simultaneously move the project one step closer to opening and raise questions about the environmental impact of what would be the nation’s largest commercial radioactive waste dump……………………………..Waste Control has spent at least 15 years convincing people in Andrews and Eunice that its hazardous and radioactive waste operation will aid the community, using radio and television spots and contributions to local charities and politicians……………………..Two groundwater tables appear to be in the “immediate vicinity” of the dump, one of which could be as close as 14 feet……………………………..The Sierra Club asserts, in written comments submitted to the TCEQ, that issuing the license “is clearly in violation of the law.”

Bush could still attack Iran
The Guardian September Stefan Simanowitz Westminster Committee on Iran 17 2008 Despite the main finding in the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that it “has been able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran”, the western media has focused on the issue of Tehran’s lack of transparency over the IAEA investigation into recent intelligence allegations (Report, September 12). These involve missile re-entry vehicle projects and have been rejected by the Iranians, who have not even been permitted to see the documents upon which the allegations are founded.
This week the US Congress is debating two non-binding resolutions which, if passed, will greatly increase the likelihood of military intervention against Iran………………..speculation that George Bush might authorise military attacks against Iran before the end of his term in office in January, or before the November elections to boost to the likelihood of a McCain presidency.
Stefan Simanowitz Westminster Committee on Iran