”These yellow cakes are not harmful–but making uranium yellowcake and leaving behind radioactive waste in Virginia is. Protect our health, our heritage and our future. Keep the Ban on Uranium Mining in Virginia.”
Among the groups making the pitch today are the Virginia Conservation Network and the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club. Virginia Uranium contends mining and milling can be done safely, while protecting the environment.
VCN director Nathan Lott says the network “works on a broad range of environmental issues all across the state, but never have I seen such an issue galvanize people like the prospect of uranium mining. Black and white, urban and rural, Republican and Democrat–Virginians agree that mining is just too risky.”
Read more:
http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/waterearthsky/2012/01/23/uranium-mining-opponents-present-yellowcake-to-legislators/
