Comment: Everybody should attend the meeting if you live in the area! Our thoughts will be with our families fighting uranium mining out West! People in Virginia are being threatened with Open Pit Uranium Mining and Milling! The Canadian uranium corporations are telling our state and local government the same untruths, plus they have major Uranium Lobbyists giving money away in Richmond, giving money to local churches and schools! Demand our local leaders to ban uranium mining and milling!
URANIUM MINING: PROTEST AND DEMONSTRATION
WHEN: NOV 12, 2009 @ 12:00 PM
WHERE: SAMMY C’S 107 W Coal Ave.
GALLUP, NEW MEXICO
WHAT: A presentation on the proposed in-situ leach (ISL) uranium mines proposed for the Church Rock and Crownpoint areas by Uranium Resources Inc./ Hydro Resources, Inc.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT #1: URI/HRI wants to buy influence among Gallup and McKinley County businesses through the Chamber of Commerce. They will say ISL mining is "benign." But what they won't tell you is that USGS has now officially documented that the vast majority of commerical ISL mines in Texas, Wyoming and Nebraska have not restored drinking water aquifers to their pre-mining conditions.
WHY #2: Economically, most jobs will be for URI/HRI’s trained wildcat crews and technical personnel, not Navajos that live in the areas to be mined and impacted forever. The “economic benefits” that are touted are short-term as most of the economic gain will be for URI/HRI, which is based in Texas. URI is once again shutting down its Texas facilities because of low uranium prices. If it starts here, it will LEAVE TOWN when the market slumps.
WHY #3: Politically, the Navajo Nation and McKinley County will once again be left with the devastation of the legacy of uranium mining. The Navajo Nation ban on uranium mining and processing still STANDS! and it covers the Crownpoint and Church Rock areas. Why is URI/HRI continuing to disrespect Navajo sovereign authority to say No uranium?,
WHY #4: THE LEGACY -- The UNC Church Rock uranium mill tailings facility -- the site of the largest release of radioactive wastes in US history 30 years ago -- is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “Superfund” site on the EPA’s National Priority and is still leaking contaminants to the groundwater. . URI/HRI acquired the Old Church Rock Mine from UNC in 1993 and did not clean up all of the radioactive wastes left there, as it promised the community it would.
WHY #5: TRUST -- This is an issue of environmental injustice, of economic blackmail, of broken promises, of environmental destruction, and of the poisoning of people in uranium communities. New research shows that living in CLOSE PROXIMITY to uranium mines increases risks of kidney disease. We cannot and should not trust URI/HRI.
TAKE ACTION: Please show your distaste for this event. Attend and protest! Call Sammy himself at 505-863-2220 and tell him this is NOT the type of business we want in Gallup. Tell him MOST PEOPLE who frequent his establishment OPPOSE new uranium development. Tell him to give EQUAL TIME to opponents of uranium mining, who are PROPONENTS OF SAFE ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT!
Anna Rondon
P.O. Box 5058
Gallup NM 87305
505-726-9392
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
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