Warning on uranium mining from Navajo speaker
mining firms “scoured the land” looking for ore deposits, Tohe said. They hired local workers, Navajos and Pueblos, to enter the mines, where radioactive dust settled into miners’ clothes before they went home and contaminated their families, Tohe said.
“The workers were never told that this was dangerous,” Tohe said……There may be short-term jobs, but the mining industry is susceptible to the market,”…“The communities are held hostage by the boom and bust cycle,”
Anti-uranium mining activist speaks out on project | GoDanRiver.com, 7 Feb 2011, If uranium is mined and milled at Coles Hill in Pittsylvania County, what happened in the U.S. West could happen in Chatham, Continue reading
Virginia Uranium gives big bucks to legislators
Top givers by amount ……. Virginia Uranium, ($27,489); Dominion Resources, which runs the largest electric company in the state ($22,673);
Va. legislators accepted more than $255,000 in gifts last year, Virginia Politics Blog By Anita Kumar 02/ 3/2011 Lobbyists, companies and trade associations gave Virginia legislators international trips, tickets to Redskins football games and the Richmond Ballet and meals last year, according to the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonpartisan tracker of money in politics. Continue reading
Virginian group organising to keep ban on uranium mining
Everywhere they mine uranium they have had health problems within about a 50-mile radius,” he said. A Floyd resident commented that cancer and birth defects are up by 81% in Fallujah, Iraq, because of U.S. weapons made with depleted uranium.
Uranium mining’s risk in times of flood
Beach study warns of risk if uranium mine floods By Aaron Applegate, The Virginian-Pilot, February 2, 2011 Massive flooding near a proposed uranium mine in south-central Virginia could temporarily contaminate Virginia Beach’s water supply, a city study released Tuesday found. City officials oppose mining a Pittsylvania County hilltop rich in uranium, fearing a hurricane or tropical storm could destroy landfill-like containers holding radioactive waste and flush contaminants into Lake Gaston, a main source of city water.
The state is exploring lifting a 29-year ban on uranium mining for the Pittsylvania project, about 200 miles from Virginia Beach……Tom Leahy, director of public utilities. said flooding from past hurricanes, including Camille in 1969, show the area is at risk. Beach study warns of risk if uranium mine floods | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
Libya and uranium selling deals – Wikileaks
LIBYAN ATOMIC ENERGY ESTABLISHMENT CONFIRMS DESIRE TO SELL URANIUM YELLOWCAKE Passed to the Telegraph by WikiLeaks 31 Jan 2011 ” ………..Gashut affirmed Libya’s commitment to sell its stockpile of approximately 1,000 metric tons of uranium yellowcake as part of the commitments it undertook in connection with its decision in 2003 to voluntarily abandon its WMD programs. Stressing that Libya viewed the question as primarily a commercial one, he noted that prices for uranium yellowcake on the world market had been increasing, and that Libya wanted to maximize its profit by properly timing the sale of its stockpile. Companies from the U.K., France and Canada (he did not say which) had sent representatives to Libya to negotiate for the purchase of the uranium in 2006-2007, and had subsequently tendered offers. Other companies had also expressed interest since then and the GOL had conducted discussions with them; however, only the original three British, French and Canadian companies had actually submitted formal bids to date. The GOL was currently engaged in “active, ongoing communications” with the three original companies and others, but had not yet made a decision as to which offer it was most inclined to accept……… LIBYAN ATOMIC ENERGY ESTABLISHMENT CONFIRMS DESIRE TO SELL URANIUM YELLOWCAKE – Telegraph
Paladin uranium company troubled by disruptions in Malawi
Paladin cuts uranium production forecast at Kayelekera The Australian, Ross Kelly Dow Jones Newswires * January 21, 2011 URANIUM miner Paladin Energy today downgraded its annual production guidance after disruptions at its Kayelekera mine in Malawi……Paladin cuts uranium production forecast at Kayelekera | The Australian
Australia’s security in S.E. Asia a sound reason for refusing to sell uranium to India
The arms control reasons for refusing uranium sales to India are serious. The first is the damage that could be done to the NPT system…..A second reason is that Australian uranium used for power generation could free other sources of uranium for use in Indian nuclear weapons, possibly fuelling a nuclear arms race with Pakistan..
We need to strengthen, not weaken, nuclear deterrent, Sydney Morning Herald, Andy Butfoy, January 21, 2011 Australia has a sovereign right to choose its customers. REPORTS that Delhi is pressuring Canberra to sell India uranium are predictable. The arguments for selling have been well rehearsed, and vested interests have long been encouraging Australia to cash in on the opportunities being dangled before it. But to understand why, one has to go beyond the spin produced by the Indian government and the nuclear industry…. Continue reading
Ballooning $billions cost of Uranium Processing Facility
Uranium facility’s cost leaps: Y-12 officials ‘taken aback’ but defend design increases Knoxville News Sentinel, Frank Munger, 20 Jan 2011, OAK RIDGE —A lot of folks were shocked last November when the projected cost of the Uranium Processing Facility jumped from $1.4-$3.5 billion to the current cost range of $4.2 billion to $6.5 billion. Continue reading
Cameco uranium company working out how to clean up ship’s uranium spill
Cameco, regulators finalize cleanup plan for uranium concentrate spill , The Vancouver Sun, By Cassandra Kyle January 18, 2011 A ship whose cargo of uranium concentrate spilled during bad weather at sea is docked in British Columbia while a Cameco Corp. team assesses damage to its product and devises a plan to clean up the spill. Continue reading
History of Congo’s atrocities tied to USA and atomic bombs
the US acquired a strategic stake in the enormous natural wealth of the Congo, following its use of the uranium from Congolese mines to manufacture the first atomic weapons, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs..
Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja |guardian.co.uk, 18 Jan 2011, The US-sponsored plot to kill Patrice Lumumba, the hero of Congolese independence, took place 50 years ago today. Continue reading
Uranium mining lobby’s political influence in Virginia
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba – the role of uranium
Congo’s production of weapons-grade uranium vastly raised the stakes for the United States, which had used Congolese uranium to build the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945…….
War-crimes charges to be filed 50 years after Lumumba’s assassinationm Google hostede news, The Canadian Press:, By Slobodan Lekic (CP) – 18 Jan 2011, BRUSSELS — Activists plan to file a civil suit alleging war crimes by a dozen former Belgian officials they say participated in the assassination of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba 50 years ago, Continue reading
France leaves radioactive legacy in uranium mine tailings
When the mines are shut down, the radioactive waste remains, and it seems that the costs for managing this radioactive legacy will have to be largely supported by the society, not the companies.
Radiological hazards from uranium mining: Problems posed by the disposal of tailings, League of Individuals for the Environment, Inc, Bruno Chareyron, 5 Jan 2011, The disposal of radioactive tailings and their control on the long term, has not receivedyet satisfying solutions, taking into consideration their activity, radiotoxicityand long half-lives. Some examples from France (where about 50 million tonsof tailings are stored) and Niger are given below. Continue reading
Pittsylvania uranium mining study not really “independent”
Politics and uranium mining | GoDanRiver.com, RICHARD D. WOOD 6 Jan 2011, With all the study and attention to the mining of uranium in Pittsylvania County, I would like to comment. As for the independent study, the so-called independents, in the real world will be working for who hired them to do the so-called independent study. Continue reading
Rare Earths carry radioactive hazards for workers
REE deposits are usually found in the same vicinity as major lodes of uranium, radium and other radioactive ores.
Rare Earths: China’s not-so-secret secret weapon, Toronto Sun, By alan.parker January 5, 2011“…………The environment concerns were very real. Mining and refining rare earth elements is a dirty, dangerous business Continue reading
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