Posted on December 14, 2011
An hour North of Chapel Hill, a Canadian energy company is planning to mine for Uranium for use in Nuclear Energy.
These is an extremely dangerous type of extraction and is a great risk to our water table, the Roanoke River Basin.
The area in which the mining happens feeds into waterways that go to Virginia Beach, Eastern NC, Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh which are all downstream.
This could contaminate our entire bioregion and water supply. Until recently, uranium mining has only been done in very remote areas.
Mining inside of a community and right next to a waterway is nearly unprecedented.
This would be the first mining project for uranium East of the Mississippi. Prepare a written statement to make a comment against the lifting of the ban, and contact us asap by e-mail at croatanearthfirst (at) gmail.com to let us know you’d like to carpool to Richmond next Monday.
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