Comment: Where are the other two so call leaders, Keep the Ban!
by: Progressive86
Sun Jan 08, 2012 at 13:58:37 PM EST
In betwixt and between the discussions over whether or not to lift the uranium mining ban in Virginia, the opinion of Southside Virginians on the issue has rarely been sought, at least not often enough, in public and private spheres alike.
However, the recent bipartisan letter by Southside political representatives Sen. Frank N. Ruff Jr. and Dels. James E. Edmunds, Danny W. Marshall, Donald W. Merricks, and Thomas C. Wright Jr. cast a long shadow of a doubt about the appropriateness of lifting a uranium mining ban that would primarily affect Southside Virginians.
"We are being asked to push through a proposal to lift a 30-year-old ban on an industry with an abysmal environmental record that, under the most optimistic assumptions, experts conclude the most that can be expected is to reduce some of the quite serious risks to the health and welfare of the surrounding community."
Would those of us in central and northern Virginia find it appropriate if Southside Virginians ultimately determined whether or not uranium mining would take place in our back yards, so to speak?
I'm guessing not. So why should the inverse be true?
Why should political representatives from central and northern Virginia vote directly against the wishes of Southside residents and their political representatives?
Read more:
http://bluevirginia.us/diary/5718/leading-democracy-following-the-wishes-of-southside-virginians-on-uranium-mining
