When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
Cree Prophecy
This was not in the video, flooding at S Meadows, area of proposed uranium tail ponds!
Comment: Keep the uranium ban!
By Tom McLaughlin
SoVaNow.com / August 18, 2011
This August has seen a marketing flood touting the benefits of the Coles Hill uranium mine in Pittsylvania County from Virginia Uranium Inc., the company that wants to dig up ore, and the Virginia Energy Independence Alliance, a corporate-backed pro-mining group that has popped up as the uranium battle heats up. Both outfits are spending liberally on TV and print ads across Southside and central Virginia, with the Alliance airing a series of commercials that kicked off at in early August. The spots feature actors dressed up as jes’ folks, all pushing an identical message: “Uranium is mined safely around the world. If it can be done safely in Virginia, then I’m all for it!”
Why of course, it’s not like the Alliance — backed by corporate sponsors Areva, the French state-owned nuclear power company, and VUI itself, among others — would make up its mind on this key safety question without first awaiting the judgment of the scientific community, right? In the meantime, though, the moneybags behind the Alliance must’ve figured they’d spend thousands of dollars on TV commercials just so the folks back home would be entertained by happy people on the tube saying happy things about uranium mining, with no indication they glow in the dark. Nice touch.
These ads are just the start. Company chairman Walter Coles has said VUI will seek to lift Virginia’s mining moratorium in the 2012 session of the General Assembly — so much for waiting on the National Academy of Sciences study, due in December, before deciding on a course of action.
Coles further let slip that the company has enlisted legislative patrons to do its bidding, like that comes as some great surprise.
For years now the pro-uranium lobby has been spreading cash around Richmond: VUI this year alone has made political contributions of $32,500, bringing its four-year payout to $87,650. This number doesn’t begin to account for the on-the-side contributions made by the company’s 14 registered lobbyists representing some of Richmond’s biggest lobby shops.
Despite projecting the air of a Virginia gentleman, Walter Coles can’t seem to get many other actual Virginians to back his plans.
Consider the evidence — local governments downstream from Coles Hill have come out strongly in opposition to VUI’s plans; groups representing sportsmen, farmers, landowners and environmentalists who normally fight like dogs have found common ground at last; even most politicians in the region have stiffened their outward resolve that nothing will happen with mining until it can be shown to be absolutely safe (yeah, I know, caveat emptor).
No doubt most people are able to distinguish between true grassroots campaigns and their corporate equivalents, the well-funded, empty-to-the-core Astroturf variation.
Comment: Pray for the people who have been exposed to the evils of uranium mining and Virginia, keep the uranium mining!
Posted on August 12, 2011 by forgottenpeople
US EPA Pacific Southwest, Region 9 Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations: Addressing Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation: The lands of the Navajo Nation include 27,000 square miles spread over three states in the Four Corners area.
The unique geology of these lands makes them rich in uranium, a radioactive ore in high demand after the development of atomic power and weapons at the close of World War II in the 1940s. From 1944 to 1986, nearly four million tons of uranium ore were extracted from Navajo lands under leases with the Navajo Nation. Many Navajo people worked the mines, often living and raising families in close proximity to the mines and mills.
Today the mines are closed, but a legacy of uranium contamination remains, including over 500 abandoned uranium mines (AUMs) as well as homes and drinking water sources with elevated levels of radiation. Potential health effects include lung cancer from inhalation of radioactive particles, as well as bone cancer and impaired kidney function from exposure to radionuclides in drinking water.
EPA maintains a strong partnership with the Navajo Nation and, since 1994, the Superfund Program has provided technical assistance and funding to assess potentially contaminated sites and develop a response. In August 2007, the Superfund Program compiled a Comprehensive Database and Atlas with the most complete assessment to date of all known uranium mines on the Navajo Nation. Working with the Navajo Nation, EPA also used its Superfund authority to clean up four residential yards and one home next to the highest priority abandoned uranium mine, Northeast Church Rock Mine, at a cost of more than $2 million.
At the request of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in October 2007, EPA, along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Indian Health Service (IHS) developed a coordinated Five-Year Plan to address uranium contamination in consultation with Navajo Nation EPA. EPA regularly reports back to the Committee and to the Navajo Nation on its progress (PDF) (2 pp, 489K) in implementing the Five-Year Plan. (The Progress Report was updated in August 2010 (PDF) (2 pp, 2.9M) .)
The Five-Year Plan is the first coordinated approach created by the five federal agencies. This landmark plan outlines a strategy for cleanup and details the cleanup process for the Navajo Nation over the next five years.
EPA is addressing the most urgent risks on the reservation — uranium contaminated water sources and structures.
Comment: The nukes, including our gov want nuke power regardless of the people well being but the nukes are pushing the uranium mining in Virginia, Coles Hill sits on the Chatham Fault. Keep the uranium ban, no more nukes!
By Deirdre Fernandes
The Virginian-Pilot
August 24, 2011
Virginia Uranium Inc. representatives could have picked a better day to refute a Virginia Beach study on the potential dangers of a mining operation in south-central Virginia during a natural disaster.
But there they were in front of City Council three hours after a rare earthquake and with Beach officials preparing for a possible hurricane this weekend.
Alan Kuhn, a consultant for Virginia Uranium, which wants the state to lift its ban on uranium mining so the company can extract the deposits in Pittsylvania County, called the Beach's study flawed and "based on unrealistic assumptions."
The Beach study, conducted by an engineering firm for $437,000, found that in the worst case of massive flooding at the mining operation, the city's water supply in Lake Gaston could be temporarily contaminated.
Council members, however, pointed out that although earthquakes are unusual in Virginia, the state had just experienced a 5.8-magnitude temblor earlier in the day.
The Gulf oil spill and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have shown that with some events, you "can't always predict it based on a history," Councilwoman Rosemary Wilson said.
Walter Coles Sr., the chairman of Virginia Uranium, said the earthquake did not hurt the company's message.
He said Virginia Uranium will continue rebutting the Beach's findings.
Beach Public Utilities Director Tom Leahy said, however, that Kuhn's analysis was a "misunderstanding" of the study. The segment of the Beach's report that Kuhn questioned assumed the waste would have entered the river by that point during a flood, Leahy said.
"It's a figment of his misinterpretation," Leahy said.
By: The Editorial Board
Published: August 17, 2011
To the editor:
If, as Virginia Uranium Inc. and its backers claim, uranium mining is safe, clean and profitable, then why does VUI feel the need to pay for newspaper spreads, TV ads and a traveling propaganda wagon to promote their mining scheme?
Why does VUI feel the need to spend money to wine-and-dine some state legislators in an effort to win their votes for uranium mining in our commonwealth?
If there were not so many unanswered and unanswerable questions surrounding this issue, they would not have to spend all that money to influence votes.
If uranium mining is clean, safe and profitable as VUI claims, why haven’t they put forth any sort of plan for their project? Even they have admitted that they have no real plan for any phase of the proposed mining and milling.
Why have almost 50 communities and organizations passed resolutions against lifting the moratorium? This includes several communities in North Carolina that are within the Lake Gaston watershed. If it were so safe, those communities would not have felt the need to take that action to protect themselves from uranium mining.
If uranium mining is so clean and safe and profitable, why are the communities where it has been mined and milled in the past now suffering from poisoned water, polluted air, increases in cancer rates and birth defects?
Many of those communities are now classified as Superfund sites, the cleanup being paid for by our tax dollars. Why are they not the thriving, growing communities VUI claims Southside will become if uranium mining is allowed?
Why do prominent scientists, including nuclear physicists, warn against the dangers of uranium mining and milling?
Uranium is only the beginning of the process that resulted in the meltdown at the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, Japan.
If it is so safe and clean, why are people dying every day from the effects of that accident?
Why are people dying from having worked in uranium mines and mills?
Uranium mining is the single most important issue facing our commonwealth.
The risks, both known and unknown, are far too pervasive and potentially devastating to disregard so callously as VUI has up to this point.
They have no real answers, nor will the NAS report provide any real answers to these questions. They expect to be allowed to proceed with this massively impacting project without a plan, without answers to basic, unavoidable questions and without regard for the long-term effects their scheme might have on the commonwealth.
Allowing them to do that would make us all participants in a huge, toxic experiment. Is it really worth that risk?
Comment: This is a great video with the history of the nuclear cycle of death, starting with uranium mining! This is a meltdown, I have family in Japan and the truth is not being told by America, France, England newspapers because our countries are in bed with the nuclear and uranium companies. No to nukes, keep the uranium mining and pray for the families in Japan!
Long time Fairewinds.com viewer and filmmaker Brian Rich has created a moving and high energy chronology of nuclear power and its impact upon the world.
We have received incredible public acknowledgement and support since we first began putting up videos about Fukushima, nuclear power, and answering questions sent to us by viewers.
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The people of Japan need our attention and support.
My friends in Japan are asking for this opportunity.
To this end Fairewinds Energy Education Corp will continue our analytical analysis, outreach, and my commentary.
CHATHAM --
Nancy Barbour Smith plans to take on Tim Barber again for the Tunstall seat on the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors.
Smith filed papers to run against Barber, an incumbent and the board’s chairman, Tuesday night in Chatham.
“We need someone that will work for the people, not (for) what I think is important, but what is right for the entire county,” Smith said during an interview at the county registrar’s office in Chatham, just minutes before the 7 p.m. deadline to file Tuesday night to be on the Nov. 8 ballot.
Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority related to the Berry Hill industrial mega park. She said she supports attracting clean industry to the park that would not pollute the land, air or water in Pittsylvania County.
“We need jobs,” Smith said.
Smith opposes mining the uranium at Coles Hill six miles northeast of Chatham. Virginia Uranium Inc. proposes to mine and mill the deposit.
Smith said she wants to make sure the Board of Supervisors follows the law. How can the county’s children be law-abiding citizens when the board is not? Smith asked.
On the board of supervisors, Frank Fox are vying for the Chatham-Blairs seat held by Hank Davis, who will retire at the end of the year.
James T. DeHart will try to unseat incumbent Coy Harville from the Westover seat on the board of supervisors.
Jessie Barksdale faces no challenger in his bid for the Banister seat held by William Pritchett, who will retire this year.
Jerry A. Hagerman is running against incumbent Fred Ingram for the Callands-Gretna seat while Dan River Supervisor James Snead faces no opponent this year.
Gov. Bob McDonnell today declared a state of emergency [...] because damage assessments appear to be more extensive than initial reports, aftershocks have caused further problems and the potential for high winds from Hurricane Irene threaten to further damage weakened structures.
More significant damage has been found closer to the epicenter in Louisa [...]
In Louisa, meantime, officials said earthquake-damaged schools will remain closed for the rest of the year. [...]
mergency Declared”: Aftershock causes quake-hit Virginia nuke plant to report Unusual Event August 25, 2011
Comment: Why is the US letting foreign mining companies ruin our lands for profit, uranium prices are in the toilet, countries plan no more nuke plants, so stop the nuclear cycle of death, not wanted, not needed!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 16, 2011
3:33 PM
CONTACT: Center for Biological Diversity
Hilary White, Sheep Mountain Alliance, (970) 728-3729
Matt Sandler, Rocky Mountain Wild, (303) 546-0214 x 1
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (928) 310-6713
Public to Feds: No New Uranium Mining, Clean Up Mess
TELLURIDE, Colo. - August 16 - The public voiced strong opposition to new uranium mining at a series of regional public forums recently hosted by the Department of Energy focusing on its 42-square-mile uranium-leasing program in southwestern Colorado. Dozens told the department to prohibit new uranium mining and create new jobs by cleaning up pollution from past mining. The meetings in Telluride, Colo. and other towns added to a groundswell of opposition to uranium mining on western public lands, including those near Grand Canyon, in northwestern New Mexico and other parts of the United States.
The Department of Energy was asking for public comments on a new environmental impact statement, which it had launched to avoid a still-pending lawsuit from conservation groups challenging its 2007 approval of the uranium program. On June 11 the department concurrently published a Federal Register notice of the new environmental impact statement and filed a legal brief citing that same notice and asking a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit. The department claims the lawsuit and the new impact study are unrelated.
“Instead of promoting mining when DOE has plentiful uranium stockpiles, the public has requested DOE turn its focus to the environmental and economic benefits that would flow from requiring the immediate and comprehensive reclamation of 13 of the leased tracts,” said Hillary White of Sheep Mountain Alliance. “This would require no federal monies as the reclamation responsibilities must be met by the private companies who leased these tracts.”
Since approving the leasing program in 2007, and despite having sidestepped environmental laws, the Department of Energy has approved 31 lease agreements authorizing mining for 10 years. The program includes 13 previously active but unreclaimed uranium leases; uranium tailings have contaminated the Dolores and San Miguel river watersheds, affecting water quality and fish populations in both rivers.
“Pollution from uranium development can be fatal for people, fish and wildlife, and can last for hundreds and even thousands of years,” said Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Department of Energy works for the public and the public is right to insist on reclamation rather than more uranium pollution. It’s time for the government to start listening.”
Uranium development threatens to further deplete and contaminate the Colorado River and its tributaries with toxic and radioactive waste products. Selenium and arsenic contamination in the Colorado River basin from abandoned uranium-mining operations has been implicated in the decline of the four endangered Colorado River fish species and may be impeding their recovery.
“The Dolores, San Miguel and Colorado rivers and watersheds are too precious to subject to another round of uranium contamination,” said Matt Sandler of Rocky Mountain Wild. “Communities, hunters, fisherman and endangered species all depend on these waters. Their protection should be our first priority.”
Bob Spieldenner
Virginia Department of Emergency Management
804-674-2400 www.vaemergency.gov
Governor McDonnell Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Hurricane Irene
RICHMOND - Governor Bob McDonnell has declared a state of emergency in Virginia in preparation for Hurricane Irene, which is anticipated to affect the Commonwealth over the weekend. Depending on the storm's final track, there is the potential for flooding from both rainfall and storm surge in the eastern part of the state. Winds could potentially reach hurricane strength in the Hampton Roads area; tropical storm force winds could extend much further inland. The ultimate impact of Irene on the Commonwealth will be dependent upon the storm's exact track, which continues to be subject to change over the next 48 hours prior to landfall. A slight deviation by Irene to the east or west would have a significant impact on observable weather in the state.
Eastern Virginia residents who live in low-lying areas should be ready to evacuate ahead of the storm. Citizens should listen to local TV and radio stations for instructions, such as an evacuation order for specific areas, details about evacuation routes and locations of evacuation shelters. If an evacuation is ordered for your area, take your emergency supplies with you, including all medications. For a list of suggested emergency supplies you should collect for your family, visit: http://www.vaemergency.gov/readyvirginia/getakit.
The Commonwealth does not plan to reverse lanes on Interstate 64. Residents should review the evacuation routes for their area to determine the best route for their families. In the event that a mandatory evacuation is necessary in specific areas, citizens will be provided further instructions through local and state authorities.
A state of emergency is declared under state law so that state resources can be made available. The governor's emergency declaration ensures a fully coordinated state response to support local initial recovery efforts. A declaration also decreases time needed to get personnel, equipment and supplies on scene.
Speaking about the State of Emergency, Governor McDonnell noted, "We are issuing this state of emergency today as a precautionary measure in order to ensure that we are ready for any potential effects of Hurricane Irene in the Commonwealth. Over the last 24 hours, a number of weather models have shifted the forecasted track of Irene slightly to the west, increasing the potential for inclement weather and potentially dangerous conditions in portions of Virginia. At this time, I encourage all Virginians to gather items they may need this weekend in case of power outages and disruptions in public services and to make sure their family members and friends are also prepared for this storm. In conjunction with our federal, state and local partners we are monitoring Irene closely, and we will issue further statements and orders as necessary in accordance with the final projected path of the hurricane. At this time, 48 hours before any possible impact of Irene, it is imperative that, in an abundance of caution, all Virginians, state agencies and localities prepare for this storm."
State agencies are preparing by in the following ways:
The Commonwealth has activated the Virginia Evacuation Coordination Team for Operational Response to assess the storm's potential impact and to take necessary actions.
The Virginia Emergency Operations Center is coordinating the state's response with increased staffing available 24 hours a day and is now at Response Condition, due to Tuesday's earthquake.
Virginia State Police personnel have been placed on stand-by and will be pre-positioned to the areas where they will be needed based on the final projected path of the hurricane. The Virginia State Police Swift Water Rescue Team is standing by in strategic locations.
Chainsaw crews from the Virginia Department of Forestry are standing by with emergency response personnel and to help with debris removal.
Virginia Department of Transportation crews are ready to clear roads and ensure roads are safe for travel.
The Virginia National Guard has been authorized to bring personnel on state active duty and begin prepositioning resources.
The Virginia Department of Health is coordinating with hospitals and long-term care facilities to ensure that they are prepared for storm impacts.
Emergency preparedness is everyone's responsibility. For information about preparing for Hurricane Irene, visit http://www.vaemergency.gov/. For general information about the storm, dial 211.
While most of America worries about the crippled economy part of the country's indigenous people are struggling to stay alive. However no one seems to care as disease from radiation threatens to leave people of Navajo nation extinct in the area.
The uranium boom of the 1940s made mines sprout like mushrooms in parts of Arizona. Eventually the need for nuclear fuel declined and after decades the facilities were abandoned, and left to contaminate the environment.
This North-East part of Arizona encompasses part of America’s Navajo nation. Native American governed territory, rich in uranium, but ruined by America’s demand for it.
“It’s a different world. We don’t have money. We don’t have the funds the people from the dominant society have. We also have conditions we’re trying to live through. Like living in the abandoned uranium areas here and drinking the contaminated waters that we have drank,” says Faye, a Navajo Nation Citizen from Blackmesa, Arizona.
Beginning in 1944, nearly four million tons of uranium ore were extracted from Navajo lands, under the auspices of private companies and the US government. The radioactive resource was in high demand for development of atomic power.
After four decades, corporations closed shop but neglected to clean up. Abandoned mines, homes, and drinking water were left contaminated with elevated levels of radiation. Residents were left behind to battle deteriorating health conditions.
Elsee Tohomie an Old Woman of the Navajo Nation, says that her knees are aching and walking became difficult for her.
“I’ve been diagnosed with some form of cancer. I feel pain below my chin.I’m taking medication now,” she says.
US officials say radionuclides in the air and drinking water have been linked to thousands of cases of lung cancer, bone cancer and impaired kidney function.
Comment: The above video is a good example of inland flooding from a Hurricane, this happen in the proprosed uranium mining in Pitts. County but inland flooding happens all of VA during hurricanes. Keep the uranium mining ban!
"In the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, inland flooding was responsible for more than half of the deaths associated with tropical cyclones in the United States."
Ed Rappaport
National Hurricane Center
Consider the following:
Tropical Storm Allison
Harris County Flood Control District
When it comes to hurricanes, wind speeds do not tell the whole story. Hurricanes produce storm surges, tornadoes, and often the most deadly of all - inland flooding.
While storm surge is always a potential threat, more people have died from inland flooding from 1970 up to 2000. Intense rainfall is not directly related to the wind speed of tropical cyclones. In fact, some of the greatest rainfall amounts occur from weaker storms that drift slowly or stall over an area.
Inland flooding can be a major threat to communities hundreds of miles from the coast as intense rain falls from these huge tropical air masses.
Tropical Storm Allison (2001) produced extremely heavy rainfall and catastrophic floods in the Houston, Texas area. Allison then acquired subtropical characteristics and continued to produce heavy rainfall and flooding near its track from Louisiana eastward to North Carolina, and then northward along the U.S. east coast to Massachusetts. Forty-one deaths were directly related to the heavy rain, flooding, tornadoes, and high surf. Damage estimates reported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were near $5 billion, with approximately $4.8 billion in the Houston metropolitan area alone
Hurricane Floyd (1999) brought intense rains and record flooding to the Eastern U.S. Of the 56 people who perished, 50 drowned due to inland flooding.
Hurricane Floyd Courtesy of NASA/GSFC
Tropical Storm Alberto (1994) drifted over the Southeast United States and produced torrential rainfall. More than 21 inches of rain fell at Americus, Georgia. Thirty-three people drowned. Damages exceeded $750 million.
Tropical Storm Claudette (1979) brought 45 inches of rain to an area near Alvin, Texas, contributing to more than $600 million in damages.
Hurricane Agnes (1972) produced floods in the Northeast United States which contributed to 122 deaths and $6.4 billion in damages. Long after the winds from Hurricane Diane (1955) subsided, the storm brought inland flooding to Pennsylvania, New York, and New England contributing to nearly 200 deaths and $4.2 billion in damages.
In a study from 1970 to 1999, freshwater flooding accounted for more than half (59%) of U.S. tropical cyclone deaths. These floods are why 63% of U.S. tropical cyclone deaths during that period occurred in inland counties.
At least 23% of U.S. tropical cyclone deaths occur to people who drown in, or attempting to abandon, their cars.
78% of children killed by tropical cyclones drowned in freshwater floods. So, the next time you hear hurricane -- think inland flooding!
What can you do?
When you hear hurricane, think inland flooding.
Determine whether you live in a potential flood zone.
If advised to evacuate, do so immediately.
Keep abreast of road conditions through the news media.
Move to a safe area before access is cut off by flood water.
Do not attempt to cross flowing water. As little as six inches of water may cause you to lose control of your vehicle.
Develop a flood emergency action plan.
Have flood insurance. Flood damage is not usually covered by homeowners insurance. Do not make assumptions. Check your policy.
The National Flood Insurance Program, is a pre-disaster flood mitigation and insurance protection program. The National Flood Insurance Program makes federally backed flood insurance available to residents and business owners
National Flood Insurance Program call 1-888-CALL-FLOOD ext. 445, TDD# 1-800-427-5593.
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ADDITIONAL SAFETY INFORMATION INLAND FLOODING SAFETY ACTIONS
When you hear hurricane, think inland flooding.
Learn your vulnerability to flooding by determining the elevation of your property.
Evaluate your insurance coverage; as construction grows around areas, floodplains change. If you are in a flood area, consider what mitigation measure you can do in advance. More from the National Flood Insurance Program.
In highly flood-prone areas, keep materials on hand like sandbags, plywood, plastic sheeting, plastic garbage bags, lumber, shovels, work boots and gloves. Call your local emergency management agency to learn how to construct proper protective measures around your home.
Be aware of streams, drainage channels and areas known to flood, so you or your evacuation routes are not cut off.
Monitor NOAA Weather Radio.
Avoid driving into water of unknown depth. Moving water can quickly sweep your vehicle away.
Restrict children from playing in flooded areas.
Test drinking water for potability; wells should be pumped out and the water tested before drinking.
Do not use fresh food that has come in contact with floodwaters. Wash canned goods that come in contact with floodwaters with soap and hot water.
Stay away from downed power lines.
HISTORIC INLAND FLOODING EVENTS
TS ALLISON 2001
Allison produced catastrophic floods in Houston, TX which contributed to 41 deaths and $5 billion in damages. More...
FLOYD 1999
Floyd brought intense rains and record flooding to the Eastern U.S. Of the 56 people who perished, 50 drowned due to inland flooding. More...
TS ALBERTO 1994
Alberto drifted over the Southeast United States and produced torrential rainfall. More than 21 inches of rain fell at Americus, Georgia. Thirty-three people drowned. Damages exceeded $750 million. More...
TS CLAUDETTE 1979
Claudette brought 45 inches of rain to an area near Alvin, Texas, contributing to more than $600 million in damages. More...
AGNES 1972
Agnes produced floods in the Northeast United States which contributed to 122 deaths and $6.4 billion in damages. More...
CAMILLE 1969
A Category 5 hurricane, the most powerful on the Saffir/Simpson Scale with maximum winds of more than 200mph devastated the Mississippi coast. The final death count for the U.S. is listed at 256. This includes 143 on the Gulf coast and another 113 from the Virginia floods. More...
DIANE 1955
The storm brought inland flooding to Pennsylvania, New York, and New England contributing to nearly 200 deaths and $4.2 billion in damages. More...
Comment: The Piedmont may not take a direct hit this time but flooding, wind has been our problems in the past. Uranium Mining will be damage during hurricanes, earthquakes which is hitting VA this week. Stay safe, always be prepared for problems lke this, keep a prepared kit at all times! Hurricane Irene Hits Bahamas, Threatens U.S. East Coast
August 24, 2011 |0
Hurricane Irene hit the southeastern Bahamas on the morning of August 24 with top winds at 115 mph, the National Hurricane Center reported. On the previous day, GOES-13 satellite (One of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) captured this image of the approaching storm. The southern tip of Florida is visible in the upper left corner of the image.
The National Hurricane Center expects Irene to move across the Bahamas through August 24 and 25. By the morning of the latter, the center expects the hurricane to reach Category 4 intensity—it's at Category 3 currently—and remain "large and powerful" for the next five days. It may travel in a curved path north, touching land in North Carolina on August 27 before heading up the eastern coast of the U.S. Evacuations are already underway in one coastal North Carolina county, Bloomberg reported.
Discuss the type of hazards that could affect your family.
Know your home's vulnerability to storm surge, flooding and wind.
Locate a safe room or the safest areas in your home for each hurricane hazard. In certain circumstances the safest areas may not be your home but within your community.
Determine escape routes from your home and places to meet. These should be measured in tens of miles rather than hundreds of miles.
Have an out-of-state friend as a family contact, so all your family members have a single point of contact.
Make a plan now for what to do with your pets if you need to evacuate.
Post emergency telephone numbers by your phones and make sure your children know how and when to call 911.
Check your insurance coverage - flood damage is not usually covered by homeowners insurance.
Stock non-perishable emergency supplies and a Disaster Supply Kit.
Use a NOAA weather radio. Remember to replace its battery every 6 months, as you do with your smoke detectors.
Take First Aid, CPR and disaster preparedness classes
Hurricane Supply Kit
Water - at least 1 gallon daily per person for 3 to 7 days
Food - at least enough for 3 to 7 days
— non-perishable packaged or canned food / juices
— foods for infants or the elderly
— snack foods
— non-electric can opener
— cooking tools / fuel
— paper plates / plastic utensils
Blankets / Pillows, etc.
Clothing - seasonal / rain gear/ sturdy shoes
First Aid Kit / Medicines / Prescription Drugs
Special Items - for babies and the elderly
Toiletries / Hygiene items / Moisture wipes
Flashlight / Batteries
Radio - Battery operated and NOAA weather radio
Telephones - Fully charged cell phone with extra battery and a traditional (not cordless) telephone set
Cash (with some small bills) and Credit Cards - Banks and ATMs may not be available for extended periods
Keys
Toys, Books and Games
Important documents - in a waterproof container or watertight resealable plastic bag
— insurance, medical records, bank account numbers, Social Security card, etc.
Tools - keep a set with you during the storm
Vehicle fuel tanks filled
Pet care items
— proper identification / immunization records / medications
— ample supply of food and water
— a carrier or cage
— muzzle and leash
Comment: I love the following statement, Thanks so much: "I and the conservation community oppose lifting the ban because of the potential risks to human health and safety." Strange, we do not need uranium mining or nuke plants in the area of the shake in VA but the whole east coast. Keep the Uranium Mining Ban!
Posted by afp on Aug 17, 2011
The Governor’s 2011 Conference on Energy has been announced for October 17-19 at the Richmond Convention Center. Once again the logo for the conference proclaims “Virginia: Energy Capital of the East Coast.”
If the slogan is to indicate the debates that are likely to take place in the Commonwealth next year on energy issues, it might be a better fit.
The Energy Capital of the East Coast is likely to see intense debates next year on uranium mining, off-shore drilling, wind farms, fracking, and renewable energy sources.
A move on the part of uranium mining interests will attempt to repeal the ban on mining uranium that has been in place for several decades.
While the current focus is on mining in Southside, a repeal would affect all deposits in the state including those closer to the water supply of Northern Virginia.
I and the conservation community oppose lifting the ban because of the potential risks to human health and safety.
Of much greater interest recently has been the prospect of wind farms off the Virginia coast to generate electricity. Technical studies have found that the wind off the Virginia coast is strong and sustainable enough to support wind turbines to generate electricity. The gigantic turbines would be far enough off the coast so as to be barely visible from land. Financing of such a project seems to be the major hurdle.
With these heavyweight issues, alternative energy will not receive much attention.
Maybe Virginia is the energy-debate capital of the East!
Ken Plum is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Resources on Uranium Mining in Virginia:
Safeguard Our Drinking Water
Keep Our Communities Healthy
Protect Local Economies
Dear Virginia Interfaith Center Advocates,
Earlier this summer members of the Virginia Interfaith Center voted to set the Center's priorities for the coming legislative session. Affirmed by our Board of Directors, one of your chief concerns is the stewardship of creation and the threat that uranium mining poses to the water, health and local economies of Virginians.
Today we publicly announced our strong support for maintaining the state's long-running ban on uranium mining. The nearly 30-year old ban protects Virginians from the harmful threats uranium mining poses to our health, drinking water systems and economy.
As many of you know, for nearly 30 years there has been a statewide ban on uranium mining in our Commonwealth. However, there is now a foreign backed corporation seeking to exploit a uranium deposit in Pittsylvania County, VA. This will most certainly result in legislation being proposed to lift the ban so mining operations can begin.
However, opening our Commonwealth’s fields, valleys and water supplies to this kind of experimental mining would benefit a few individuals, while risking the health, safety, and prosperity of millions of Virginians. So we have joined the Keep the Ban Coalition and will work to prevent the ban from being lifted to protect Virginians.
So, what can you do?
We need advocates like yourselves to make your voices heard on this issue! First, learn more about uranium mining in Virginia and the risks it entails on our website. (The Keep the Ban coalition also has educational materials available online.) Then, get involved by voicing your concerns to your elected officials, by writing a letter to the editor or by signing our petition to keep the ban.
I look forward to working with you on this issue!
Best,
Trieste
Trieste Lockwood
Director, Virginia Interfaith Power and Light
The Keep the Ban coalition has a goal of collecting 10,000 signatures from concerned citizens across the state. We will share these signatures with decision makers to show broad support for the ban on uranium mining in Virginia.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two nuclear reactors in Virginia operated by Dominion Resources' were shut due to an earthquake which was reported near the plant site on Tuesday, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Two reactors at the North Anna Station in Mineral, Virginia, tripped, the NRC said.
The plants lost off-site power, but diesel generators are operating, the spokesman said.
Earthquake Hits Areas of DC, Maryland and Virginia
Updated: Friday, 16 Jul 2010, 11:18 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 16 Jul 2010, 5:27 AM EDT
WASHINGTON - Earthquakes are so rare in the Washington area that even a geology student wasn't quite sure what was going on when a minor one hit early Friday. Was it a truck passing by? A low-flying plane?
Gerasimos Michalitsianos, who will be a senior at the University of Maryland, College Park, was sitting on his couch looking at e-mails when the 3.6-magnitude temblor occurred.
"I didn't actually know that I was in an earthquake," said Michalitsianos, who is studying postseismic relaxation, how the ground changes following major earthquakes.
Michalitsianos said he only found out he'd been through an earthquake when he looked online.
"It was a rare treat to see an earthquake occur here on the East Coast and to actually feel it," he said.
Washington area residents are used to politicians being the region's movers and shakers, so it was a surprise when the earth below shook.
The earthquake rattled windows and jostled dishes but apparently caused no serious damage. President Barack Obama told reporters he didn't feel it.
Though Californians who have earthquakes of this size almost weekly may scoff, it was the strongest to hit within 30 miles of D.C. since officials began keeping records in 1974. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., joked on Twitter, "Small earthquake in DC this morning ... someone must have dropped a copy of ObamaCare," the president's health care legislation
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The quake happened at 5:04 a.m. and was centered in the Rockville, Md., area, said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center. By noon, more than 15,000 people had logged on to the U.S. Geological Survey's website to report feeling it, some from as far away as Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The website said earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains can be felt over an area as much as 10 times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the West Coast.
Police in Washington and nearby Montgomery County, Md., said they received many calls from residents Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Water, gas and electric utilities reported no problems to the District of Columbia Department of Homeland Security, which said streets were clear and the subway wasn't affected. Crews did go out to inspect bridges, however, to check for damage. None had been found as of midday.
Residents, meanwhile, spent the day asking each other "Did you feel it?"
Matthew Castelli, 40, of Fredericksburg, Va., said he didn't.
"I understand in this area for a lot of people it's 'holy cow!"' he said. "I think people tend to forget that we're near a fault line around here."
The Washington area has had small, infrequent earthquakes over the years, including a 2.5-magnitude quake in 1997 that was within 25 to 30 miles of Friday's and a 2.3-magnitude quake in 1996 that was within 15 miles.
One earthquake larger than a magnitude 5 was recorded in the area in 1897, and it's possible one might occur in the future, but it would be an extremely rare event, said USGS geophysicist John Bellini. Earthquakes in the area occur on fault lines called intraplate faults because, unlike California's San Andreas fault and others, they are not on boundary lines between the six or so large plates that make up the Earth's crust.
Debby Taylor Busse said she was watching television in the basement of her home in Vienna, Va., when she felt the quake.
"I didn't know what it was," Busse said. "I have never been in an earthquake before. It felt like an airplane going overhead or thunder, but it wasn't coming from above."
Busse said it lasted just a few seconds and compared it to a strong thunder strike -- enough to rattle the house, but not enough to knock anything over.
Tafelila Pilgrim, 78, said the shaking was strong enough to knock a plastic glass of water over in her home, but nothing else was amiss, though the quake shook her.
"I start screaming," she said. "I was afraid."
Washington resident Denver Turner said he too was awake to feel the quake. He'd been answering e-mails when he felt the carpet begin to vibrate beneath his feet.
Comment: People are fighting against the killing industry called Uranium Mining! Keep the U Ban in VA!
Monday, 15 August 2011 23:13
By Bernard Lugongo
The Citizen Reporter
The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) is planning to take the government to court should it go ahead with uranium mining projects in Bahi and Manyoni districts in Dodoma and regions respectively.
The LHRC cautioned yesterday that it was against the projects because they would lead to serious health and environmental impacts on the people living in the area.
Addressing reporters in Dar es Salaam on behalf of the LHRC executive director, Mr Harold Sungusia, who is LHRC’s director of Advocacy and Reforms, said the Centre had established that there would be negative implications after it made a follow up on uranium exploration in the areas said to have reserves of the mineral.
LHRC also asked the government to learn from other nations, such as Niger, that have already experienced negative effects of uranium mining
A few months ago, an FLS editorial encouraged those opposed to uranium mining in Virginia to sit back, relax, and wait until the studies come out at the end of the year ["Uranium: Dig deeper," May 16].
Since then, we have seen the proponents do anything but wait. They're sending our legislators on an expenses-paid trip to France. Advertisements are being posted here and there around the state touting the benefits of uranium mining.
And it's no secret that they intend to introduce legislation lifting the ban right away in January. So much for relaxing.
The tailings themselves are radioactive.
According to the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, the half-lives of the principal radioactive components of mill tailings, thorium-230 and radium-226, are about 75,000 years and 1,600 years, respectively.
Who is going to be responsible for monitoring the tailings until their radioactivity decays to that of the natural surroundings? How will the integrity of the tailing waste impoundment be assured against natural erosion and seepage into groundwater and airborne dust for such a long period of time?
And this doesn't even consider the effects of hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico that reach our mountains from time to time with torrential rains and winds. What bonding company would insure the integrity of the tailings at all, much less for that length of time?
Uranium mining in Virginia is just too risky, and the downside is too catastrophic. The ban needs to remain in place!
Comment: Is this a modern way to shutdown a nasty uranium mill, use crates? No to u mill and mining!
By David O. Williams
Real Aspen – August 14, 2011
Rather than seek an appropriate technological solution, managers of a decommissioned uranium processing mill near Cañon City want the state to let them stop testing a radioactive holding pond because wooden pallets used to cross the pond are sinking into the toxic mud.
Environmental attorneys and watchdog citizen groups point out that the company that owns the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Cleanup site that’s been leaking into local groundwater since the 1950s is Cotter Corp., a subsidiary of General Atomics, which is a division of General Dynamics – the company that makes high-tech Predator Drones.
Virginia Uranium isn’t the only entity in our state that owns land containing uranium. Uranium is found in many, many places around Virginia — and the world, for that matter.
As Virginia continues to struggle with the question of whether to allow uranium mining and the milling that turns the raw ore into the more valuable yellowcake, opponents have raised the specter that VUI or other companies could set up mines and even mills in other parts of the Dan River Region — and around the commonwealth. They even point to the old leases that Marline had in the early 1980s as proof that there’s a lot more uranium available for mining.
Ironically, it’s the moratorium on uranium mining that has kept some of those questions from being answered. With the moratorium in place, it makes no financial sense for a mining company to expend the kind of money, time and effort to find the next Coles Hill in Virginia.
If the moratorium were lifted, that would certainly encourage mining companies to look for more uranium deposits. .
Now the question for Virginia is whether this industry can be trusted with the health and safety of the people, animals, land and water beyond the borders of its own property — a case that hasn’t been made yet.
But let’s not pretend that the debate over uranium mining and milling is only a debate about Virginia Uranium’s project at Coles Hill. If there is demand for uranium and Virginia allows VUI to move forward with its project, the entire uranium mining industry will be taking a good, long look at other parts of the Dan River Region — and the state.
Key Faith Group to Mobilize Members Behind Keeping Virginia's Uranium Mining Ban
by: TheGreenMiles
Wed Aug 17, 2011 at 13:33:19 PM EDT
Virginia's oldest faith-based advocacy group has announced it will put its weight behind keeping Virginia's ban on uranium mining:
Officials at the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy say they will be mobilizing activists across the state to lobby the General Assembly to continue a moratorium on uranium mining in the state.
Trieste Lockwood, director of the group's power and light program, said that mining could harm drinking water, residents' health and the economy by damaging agricultural, tourism and fishing industries if there is an accident.
"The financial gain of one corporation is really simply not worth the longterm risks to so many people," Lockwood said.
"We do not believe an unbiased study exists that suggests uranium is no longer radioactive and no longer has severe health consequences," she said.
For more on why Virginia's uranium mining ban is just as necessary today as it was when first implemented decades ago, check out KeepTheBan.org or read this excellent article by the Virginia Sierra Club's Mary Rafferty.
By: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 17, 2011
Updated: August 17, 2011 - 11:01 AM
RICHMOND -- The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy says it opposes ending a state ban on uranium mining, calling mining a "risky experiment."
Director Trieste Lockwood of the center's Interfaith Power and Light program said Wednesday the opposition is based on concerns about mining's impact on drinking water and human health.
Virginia Uranium Inc. wants to tap a 119-million-pound uranium deposit in Pittsylvania County. Virginia has a moratorium on uranium mining.
Uranium mining can cause a security and health meltdown of communities across Virginia.
But Governor Bob McDonnell’s ‘profit-over-people’ attitude has left the door open for corporations to launch an aggressive lobbying campaign to lift the ban on uranium mining. It looks like it might succeed.
Virginia’s lawmakers are on the verge of considering lifting a 30-year ban on uranium mining, which could send many communities down a devastating path. The ban on uranium mining has kept us safe from radioactive waste in our water and neighborhoods.
Sign the petition below to send a clear message to Governor McDonnell: Keep the Ban, and keep Virginia safe, secure, and radioactive-free!
Petition: Governor McDonnell:
Uranium mining could devastate communities across Virginia. Exposure to uranium waste has been linked to increases in leukemia, kidney disease, and other severe health problems. A recent study by the city of Virginia Beach predicts that a spill at the first proposed mining site could contaminate drinking water for up to two years for Virginia Beach and other Virginia communities. Why are you willing to gamble with the health of families and communities in Virginia? Please veto any law that will end or compromise the 30-year ban on uranium mining in the Commonwealth. Keep Virginia safe, secure, and radioactive-free. Please sign the petition: http://statevoices.salsalabs.com/o/13/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=140
A series of soothing television ads and videos tells us that mining uranium in Virginia would produce jobs and protect us from scary foreigners.
Virginia newspapers carried an article from the Associated Press this week that did not pretend to be anything but one-sided, reporting on the agenda of corporations that would profit from mining uranium while including no other views or any verified facts. The Washington Post did the very same thing. These articles are essentially press releases that have been tweaked. The online versions even include the videos.
We can expect even less actual news reporting than that (yes, less than nothing) to come through our televisions. But these ads hyping uranium mining as a job solution will be aired.
While wrecking the Grand Canyon to get at some more uranium will make more news, poisoning the water of Southern Virginia may kill more people.
"Uranium is highly toxic heavy metal that emits alpha radiation and is soluble in water. When consumed, it may cause kidney failure and birth defects. Mining of only 4 lb of high quality uranium ore produces at least one ton (more than 2200 lb) of radioactive waste, known as uranium mining tailings, which contain polonium, radium, radon, thorium, lead and many other toxic elements that are responsible for causing cancer and birth defects.
Thousands of years of danger, to provide what the uranium mining companies claim might be 65 years of uranium use.
And the bar has officially been lowered. If the media sees it somehow newsworthy that "greens" are not absolutely "friendless" in the House GOP merely because a few Republicans voted to allow the Endangered Species Act to continue to exist -- as this report from a mainstream newspaper does -- we are in dire straits indeed. Just witness this vain attempt to cast some members of the GOP Congress as green-friendly -- frankly, it's pathetic.
Here's Politico: "Dozens of purple-state Republicans have broken ranks with their party leadership to take the pro-green position during floor and committee votes spanning more than 100 bills and amendments." Dozens! Literally dozens! Okay, so far, so good ... "Granted, the defections seldom come all at the same time, meaning the number of actual environmental victories can be counted on one hand." And there it is -- essentially, a handful of Republicans have occasionally broken ranks to protest NIMBY projects that their states would object to, or to vote against something so egregious that anyone but a stalwart, balls-to-the-wall Tea Partier would have to admit is crazy.
One of those "surprising" victories? Some Republicans voted to allow the Endangered Species Act to continue to exist: "Rep. Fred Upton, once known as a moderate on green issues, has taken the party line since his successful run for the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee. But the Michigan Republican surprised many when he voted with Democrats to preserve the Endangered Species Act."
Wow! What boldness! Not conceding the total abolition of one of the few tools we have to protect dwindling populations of threatened animals, which are often vital to the survival of various ecosystems? Give him the green badge of honor!
In fact, the only thing each "green-friendly" Republican the article cites has done for the environment is occasionally not voted to obliterate it. One once voted in favor of funding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's climate service.
One voted to keep devastating uranium mining out of the Grand Canyon. Another, voted to approve one -- gasp! -- EPA regulation of toxic emissions.
Like I said -- calling any of these folks 'green' on these grounds isn't just misguided, it's pathetic.
And each and every one of them voted to strip the EPA's authority to enforce the Clean Air Act.
What brave, courageous defenders of the environment, these.
By: The Editorial Board
Published: August 07, 2011
To the editor:
I am writing in reference to "Uranium debate sparks letters to Va. localities" (Aug. 3, page A2), which details how Walter Coles Sr. of VUI sent letters to 30 communities pleading with them to "reserve judgment" on uranium mining until the results of the NAS "study" are in.
I would suggest your readers take a look at an article by Andrew Rice entitled "Nuclear Standoff/What Happens When You Discover Uranium in Your Backyard," (The New Republic, March 12, 2010).
In that article, Coles is quoted as saying, regarding the NAS study, "Many of the elected delegates are waiting for the study, to give them cover to take a position on this."
Of course the key word in that sentence is "cover." Here we have the head of VUI, speaking about the study that he himself paid for, telling the world that in essence that "study" is nothing more than a smokescreen, designed to falsely appease the fears of the people, and to give the legislature a means of validating their votes to lift the moratorium on uranium mining after they have been wined and dined by VUI and its lobbyists for more than two years.
Many of us have known the study was a diversionary tactic from the beginning.
Now we have Walter Coles himself virtually admitting that.
What more proof do we need to know that this "study" is just another part of the plan VUI has had in place since the beginning of this controversy?
It is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to convince the legislators that they can vote for uranium mining and then blame their favorable votes on the NAS study.
From the beginning, VUI has repeated the same tired phrase, "wait for the study, wait for the study ... ." But everyone knows that the "study" is not going to say whether or not uranium can be mined safely. Everyone also knows that if they did say that, it would be a falsehood.
Coles is like the Wizard of Oz, creating lots of smoke and lightning while hiding behind the curtain, hoping he won’t be discovered before he can get his uranium mine approved.
Comment: Praying for you and your family, Nancy, We love you!
Rev. Edwin Benjamin Barbour October 14, 1947 - August 12, 2011
The Reverend Edwin Benjamin Barbour departed this life on Friday, August 12, 2011 surrounded by his family. He is survived by his children, Benjamin Gibson Barbour of Richmond, Margaret Allycen Barbour Williams, his son-in-law, John Harrell Williams, and their children, Jackson Maguyre, Keegan Gibson and Brodi Joella Williams, all of Waycross, Georgia; his former wife, Joella Faye Johnson Barbour of Glade Springs; sisters and brothers-in-law, Patsy B. Craig of Martinsville, Nancy B. and Charles T. Smith of Axton, and Julian “Buck” Kester of Martinsville
Ben Barbour was raised in the Sandy River community near Axton in Pittsylvania County and was a graduate of Tunstall High School, Ferrum College, Lynchburg College and Duke University School of Divinity.
Family will receive friends from 6 to 8 pm on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at the Anderson Chapel United Methodist Church, 4437 Medical Center Road, Axton, VA , where a funeral service will be held Thursday, August 18th at 4pm with burial to follow in the church cemetery.
There will also be a memorial service at 2pm Saturday, August 20th, at Manakin Episcopal Church 985 Huguenot Trail, Midlothian, Virginia.
The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Anderson Chapel UMC Cemetery Fund or to Ferrum College, P.O. Box 1000, Ferrum, VA, 24088. On-line condolences may be made to the family at www.bassettfuneralservice.com. Bassett Funeral Service in Bassett is serving the family of Mr. Barbour.
Posted: Aug 08, 2011 5:30 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 08, 2011 5:57 PM EDT
The Shenandoah Valley is already home to Virginia's largest solar power system. But it's about to get one that's even larger, and a Staunton company is behind both of those cutting-edge power projects.
Over 1,500 solar panels will crank out 450 kilowatts of electricity from the rooftops at Washington and Lee University. The project aims to show how energy stewardship can make financial sense.
With the stroke of a pen, Washington and Lee University committed to a massive solar energy project, one that is billed as a commitment to the future.
"For any student graduating from a liberal arts college, you have to consider that broader context. When you go out into the world … what do you owe to others, and what do you owe to those in the future," said Washington and Lee President Kenneth Ruscio.
One array of solar panels will be installed on a new canopy on a campus parking garage. Another will cover most of the roof of Lewis Hall at Washington and Lee's Law School. Together they'll generate enough electricity to power 44 homes.
The project is designed, developed and financed by Staunton based Secure Futures.
"We own and operate it. And then we sell the electricity back to the customer, in this case, the university," explained Secure Futures CEO Tony Smith.
"We're in a position where we're able to invest now for payoffs in the future," said Ruscio
Nuclear Industry’s Latest LIES: SB 1138, STOP The Nuke Con Job! Call or Write the Governor Now!
Email the Governor: http://www.governor.virginia.gov
Mailing Address: Office of the Governor, Patrick Henry Building, 3rd Floor , 1111 East Broad Street , Richmond, Virginia 23219
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SB1138/HB1790 - Nuclear Energy Consortium bills headed to VA Governor Bob McDonnell -
We do not want more Nuclear Power in VA, nuke power is not green or clean, starts with uranium mining to nuke rods which last 4ever!
The General wording allows for a lack of transparency and public accountability, and that that may have been deliberately written into the bill to give VNECA unchecked powers, including the authority and power to promote and expand cradle to grave nuclear industries using taxpayer’s monies for grants.
SB 1138 Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority;
Introduced by: Jeffrey L. McWaters
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SB1138
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