Comment: A great piece, Leaders of VA , listen to people in other countries and our country too, who lives have been ruin from uranium mining and milling! No to uranium mining!
Sunday, 10 October 2010
It's not usual for one doctor to resign on principle but when twenty Canadian doctors walk together, there has to be a pretty powerful reason.
The cause for this extreme move was the concern they had about the proposed mining of uranium in their province.
Two other provinces had already refused to allow it.
This happened in December of last year.
You can read the details in the Spring Edition of Nukewatch Quarterly.. under: twenty doctors resign (!)
These guys aren't stupid, nor are the members of the Australian trades union, who refuse to work in uranium mines.
....Last year twenty doctors, including specialists, resigned en mass from their hospital in Sept Isles, Canada in protest at the Quebec government's decision not to ban uranium mining in their province, unlike British Columbia and Nova Scotia, who already have.
There were plans for Uranium mining on the North Shore of Quebec.
The doctors wrote about the historical contamination of drinking water,environmental destruction and, irreversible health hazards.
You can read the full report at http://www.nukewatch.com/quarterly/2010spring/page1%5B1%5D.pdf . These are professional people, and they resigned as a group in an advanced nation.
Cross to Australia and you will find that the electricians in a trades union.
The branch refuses to let any of its members work in uranium mining projects "When the Dust Settles" is a DVD production to explain to Members and the people of Australia the dangers and effects that Uranium mining creates.
Now come back to America, and an indigenous people. I read that the Navajo Nation has banned Uranium mining on their land.
According to Wikipedia:
"For a people that historically had almost no cases, currently several types of cancer are in evidence at rates higher than the national average on the Four Corners Navajo Reservation. (Raloff, 2004) Especially high are the rates of reproductive-organ cancers in teenage Navajo girls, averaging seventeen times higher than the average of girls in the United States.
It has been suspected that uranium mines, both active and abandoned, have released dust into the surrounding air and the water supply.
Water contamination for many thousands of years is one of the problems that people fear in the areas surrounding uranium mining.
You will see that this is one reason why they don't want it, apart from a history of exploitation, sickness and deaths,from mining..
Now, ask yourself where the uranium mining exploration and granting of licenses is going on at full speed, and one of the places is Africa, and the people who will be affected are some of the poorest and least formally educated in the world. Do you think that their voice will be heard?
It's a struggle for people in developed nations with a history of sickness and deaths from uranium mining.
We have brilliant people working on renewables.
In this country we have enough wind and wave and tidal energy to keep us supplied and have spare to export. In Australia, in the desert, Dr. Karl states that an area 50km by 50km of solar voltaic would provide enough electrical energy for the whole of Australia and an area 500km by 500km would supply enough electrical energy to supply the whole world.
Come on guys, we can do it. Think what a future you could be leaving your grandchildren. Think happy.
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