Comment: City of Danville, thanks for at least considering the resolution and please pass the resolution that uranium mining and milling will not happen at the Berry Hill Mega Park! Please bring true green and clean jobs (Nuclear Power is not Clean) to the Park!
By Denice Thibodeau
Published: February 15, 2010
Updated: February 15, 2010
A Blairs woman’s proposal to ban uranium mining at the Berry Hill Road industrial mega park will be considered by Danville City Council in a work session Tuesday night.
Deborah Dix has presented the proposal to ban such mining to (not true, Karen Maute presented to the County...Ace) both the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors and the Danville Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority without success.
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors chairman Hank Davis made a motion to pass the resolution during the Feb. 8 RIFA meeting, but the proposal was not seconded.
Mayor Sherman Saunders is the RIFA vice-chairman and Councilman David Luther is a board member. At the meeting, both said the resolution would be discussed by City Council.
City Council will consider a carefully written resolution that states “City Council’s intent that no mining operations take place in the City-County Mega Park, while at this time taking no position for or against the uranium mining moratorium currently in effect by the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
The moratorium has been in effect since 1982, but a push to mine uranium in Pittsylvania County has brought the issue before legislators once again.
City Council’s proposed resolution notes that the state (Virginia Uranium Inc. is paying for the study..Ace)has commissioned a study of uranium mining by the National Academy of Science’s National Research Council and the Danville Regional Foundation is sponsoring a separate study to examine the overall impact the proposed mine could have, including effects on quality of life, real estate values and economic opportunities.
The proposed resolution says the new industrial park is being built to house manufacturing industries “not mining operations of any type, and those in the regional opposed to uranium mining can be assured that the Mega Park will not be used for that purpose.”
City Council’s work session will be held immediately after the regular meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. The work session will be held in City Council’s Conference Room, across the hall from City Council Chambers, on the fourth floor of the Municipal Building on Patton Street.
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