No room for error in uranium mining

Comment:  Ace believes all uranium mining companies say the same thing, "They tell us strict government oversight and regulation of their proposed mining is not all that necessary."  The same uranium group says the same thing plus, "it won't hurt ya"!  No to uranium mining or milling!


June 5, 2010

The more one hears about BP's ruinous catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, the more one has to worry about the risks inherent in the proposed in situ uranium mining in nearby Weld County.

Both BP's extraction of oil and Powertech's extraction of uranium depend on piping systems to bring the desired substance to the surface.

The piping system Powertech proposes to use involves many injection wells to push chemically treated water down through the Laramie Fox-Hills aquifer, which thousands of people depend on for water, and into the uranium ore body.

 Many more extraction wells will be used to pull the dissolved uranium and other dangerous heavy metals to the surface.

Like BP, Powertech asks us to trust them.

They tell us they are the experts. They tell us strict government oversight and regulation of their proposed mining is not all that necessary.

"Better safe than sorry" is an old and true saying.

Powertech must be required to prove beyond any and all doubt that its proposed uranium mining is absolutely fail-safe and will not endanger our water, environment, health, and local economy.

There is no room for error.

John S. Dixon,
Fort Collins, CO

Read more:
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20100605/OPINION03/6050329/1014/OPINION/No+room+for+error+in+uranium+mining