Virginia Beach deserves a hearing on uranium mining

Comment: Some more history of VA Beach and their concerns about uranium mining. The Uranium Subcommittee came to our county and was beaten by our words about the problem of uranium mining. However, the Uranium Sub has not visited other locals in Virginia about their future uranium mining. Uranium is located all over VA and it will not stop at Southside, if the ban is lifted, the whole state will be blown up for uranium. Listen up Virginia, demand the Uranium Sub to come to your area, and do not want on a Pro-Nuclear NAS to determine our fate on uranium mining!


The Virginian-Pilot
December 22, 2008

Most of the 20 speakers at last week's public hearing in Richmond on a proposed uranium mine in Southside Virginia had the same talking points.

They're worried about the mine's effect on the environment and particularly the surrounding streams and groundwater.

Members of a legislative panel will hear those identical concerns when they travel next month to Pittsylvania County, home to an estimated 60,000 tons of uranium, for a second hearing on the issue.

So far, no forum has been scheduled for Virginia Beach, which gets its drinking water from Lake Gaston, located downstream from the mine site.

Should the legislative panel even bother to schedule a Beach hearing? Absolutely.

But that doesn't negate the right for all people who could be affected by the proposed mine to be included in the discussions from the beginning.

Virginia Beach residents have a clear interest in the outcome of the mining study.

They deserve ironclad guarantees that their water supply will not be tainted by excavations for uranium or by haphazard disposal of mining byproducts laced with heavy metals.

But lawmakers overseeing the study should immediately extend an offer to meet with city leaders and residents to discuss the issue.

The interests of Virginia's largest city should not be an afterthought

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