Comments: Why is the Governor of Virginia pushing the uranium mining on his people when the film below clearly states uranium mining has always been dangerous. The uranium and nuclear group lie everyday about the old days and claim they did not know the dangers but since the 1800's their knew uranium mining kills people. There is nothing new in uranium mining procedures, maybe 2, you cannot smoke in the mines and they vent the radon gas but only at EPA standards but remember, there is no safe radon gas, it will cause lung cancer at any amount. Also, radiation, no matter how low is dangerous! Demand the governor of VA to stop wasting taxpayers monies on his secretive Uranium Working Group, demand the Gov of VA to keep the uranium mining ban!
Filmed in South Dakota, Nebraska, Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma, California and Colorado.
The American (mostly Canadian) mining corporations' dirty little secret finally comes into the light of day - and is being exposed for what it is -- sometimes illegal, socially irresponsible and, in many cases, deadly.
Uranium mining is scarring the landscape, harming the planet and posing dire health consequences in communities throughout the Southwest of the United States.
One has only to look back in recent environmental history at the devastation and death left in the wake of Love Canal, Three Mile Island and most recently Fukushima, Japan to see the future of corporate greed and disregard for the public health and well being.
These entities were allowed free reign to dump at will - in the case of Love Canal - and to allow human error to go unchecked at Three Mile Island and Fukushima -- both ending up scarring land and lives in the process.
Dark Water charts the background of current companies whose main goal is their bottom line over the well-being and safety of the public at large.
Our ground waters are being fouled at an alarming rate and even the Grand Canyon is being considered as a future site for Uranium mining.
The thought that our grandest national park would ever be considered as a location for this kind of exploitation is beyond anyone's wildest imagination.
Adding further insult is the current plan to build a storage facility for nuclear waste in Texas, directly above the Ogalalla Aquifer, which supplies water for the entire midwest and the agricultural 'bread basket of the world'.
This compelling and enlightening documentary film will follow the trail of destruction and despair, chronicling the methods used to leach the uranium from the mines to the lives affected on a daily basis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHPzgTg1yN4
