Comment: Virginia Uranium Inc will be one of the Stakeholders, I mean they are the real stakeholder, they paid for the NAS Uranium Mining study and they get to present too! I mean really......No to U Mining and Milling!
By GoDanRiver Staff
Published: December 01, 2010
The Uranium Mining Subcommittee of the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission plans to meet Wednesday, Dec 6 in Richmond.
At the meeting, the committee members are expected to review and choose one of six firms to conduct a socioeconomic study on the impacts of uranium mining and milling around Coles Hill in Pittsylvania County.
The meeting begins at 2:30 p.m. in House Room D in the General Assembly building.
For more info on the study and proposals from firms wanting to do it, visit http://dls.state.va.us/groups/cec/Uranium/info.htm and click the socioeconomic study link.
• On Tuesday, Dec 6, the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club and the Martinsville-Henry County Voters League are co-hosting a community meeting about the threats of uranium mining to the region.
The meeting runs from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Henry County Administration Building at 3300 Kings Mountain Road in Martinsville. For more information or to R.S.V.P, e-mail mary.rafferty@sierraclub.org
• On Dec. 13-15, the National Academy of Sciences’ committee conducting the scientific study on uranium mining in Virginia plans to meet in Danville.
On Dec. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., stakeholders will give presentations. From 6 to 9 p.m. that day, the public can participate in a town hall meeting. Sign-up for public comment will begin at 5 p.m. on a first come, first serve.
Those planning to attend should register with Courtney Gibbs at (202) 334-2744 or e-mail cgibbs@nas.edu
For more info, visit http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/ ,title “Uranium Mining in Virginia.”
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