Comment: People of Virginia, we need a petition to stop uranium mining and tell Virginia Leaders we do not care about Dillion's Rule! No to Uranium Mining and Milling!
25 Nov 2009
Flash News
The Slovak Parliament will consider a petition opposed to uranium mining at its December session, the parliamentary committee for agriculture and the environment decided on November 24.
The petition, signed by more than 113,000 Slovak citizens and 41 local authorities from areas between Nové Mesto nad Váhom (Trenčín Region) and Zemplín (Košice Region), was submitted in September by environmental organisations Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, and civil associations Sozna and Brečtan.
The director of Greenpeace in Slovakia, Juraj Rizman, told the TASR newswire that Greenpeace welcomes the committee’s decision as well as the fact that the petition was supported by all the MPs on the committee.
The civic initiative is trying to persuade MPs to take all the environmental, health-related as well as economic risks of uranium mining into consideration.
According to the activists, the main risk from mining uranium comes from the handling of enormous amounts of radioactive materials.
Uranium waste rock also contains several toxic substances such as arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, they said.
Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports
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