Comment: Look at the following comment: "shows Lac Kachiwiss does not have a sufficiently high grade of ore to justify the heavy investment needed for a mine"! Well the uranium ore located in Virginia is not a high grade ore, so why are Virginia and Canada pushing the uranium mine and milling? The nukes love to build bombs, the only purpose to use low grade uranium ore! So just Google, the head of the US Energy Department and see what he has built, you will be surprise! So why does Virginia keeps taunting the comment, Virginia Energy Independence and Southside has the uranium for Nuke Plants, it is just a fairy tell, just like using the French as Energy Independence when their Nuclear Policy and uranium mining is a failure?!! Why is Virginia pushing the uranium mining issue? One answer maybe, the French want to mine uranium in other parts of our county and Virginia!
By Robert Gibbens,
Special to The Gazette
December 14, 2009
Demonstrators protest in Sept Îles against plans by Terra Ventures of Vancouver to mine uranium at Lac Kachiwiss.
A uranium exploration program 14 kilometres north of Sept Îles on Quebec’s Lower North Shore has been frozen, due partly to objections by the region’s doctors buttressed by popular demonstrations.
The doctors believe it threatens the environment and people’s health.
Vancouver-based Terra Ventures Inc. said on Friday it had stopped all work on the controversial Lac Kachiwiss uranium property because the onset of winter.
“I took their statement to mean the project is on ice indefinitely,” said Jean-Pierre Thomassin, president of L’Association de l’exploration minière du Québec, reached in Rouyn-Noranda.
On Sunday, an estimated 1,000 people demonstrated against the Lac Kachiwiss project in the streets of Sept Îles, following a threat by 20 doctors to resign from the city’s health-care system if exploration was not stopped and a moratorium on all uranium exploration put in place by the provincial government.
One of the doctors said the impact would be “catastrophic” on the region.
Under Quebec’s existing mining law and the new one being now being proposed, companies cannot build new mines without extensive public consultation and environmental controls and provision for final clean-up.
Thomassin said the evidence, including Terra’s own exploration reports, shows Lac Kachiwiss does not have a sufficiently high grade of ore to justify the heavy investment needed for a mine.
“The demonstrators on Sunday braved the cold, but they apparently didn’t know about Terra’s statement on Friday,” Thomassin said.
“The doctors let their names be used to protest what are very personal issues, but they are due to hold a press conference later today (Tuesday).”
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