Dolley Madison Garden Club Conservation and Beautification Committee Present:
CONSERVATION FORUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator: Dan Holmes
Speakers:
Patrick Wales
Olga Kolotushkina
Bill Speiden
Susan Marmagas
Meeting: URANIUM- WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW?
Date: November 14, 2012
Time:
3p.m. Doors open at 2p.m.
Location:
Stonefire Station, Barboursville, VA
Free – Public Welcome
Come and hear a panel of speakers discuss the issues surrounding Uranium mining in Virginia. Learn the pros and the cons so you can make educated decisions for the future.
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Moderator:
Dan Holmes joined the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) in 2000. He currently serves as the Director of State Policy, covering land use and transportation, energy policy, air and water quality, and other related issues. He has served as a member and chair of the State Advisory Board on Air Pollution (2001-2010) and participates on numerous state advisory committees on environmental and energy matters. Appointments include the 2007 VA Energy Plan Technical Advisory Committee, Mercury Advisory Committee, and the Solar and Wind Regulatory Advisory Panels. Dan lives in Culpeper, Virginia. He attended North Carolina State University and the Conway School. His undergraduate degree is in Horticulture and he holds a M.A. in Sustainable Planning and Landscape Design. Prior to moving to VA Dan worked as a designer for Sudbury Design Associates (Landscape Architect/Architecture firm) in Massachusetts. Other - 2004 alumni of the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute.
Panelists:
Olga Kolotushkina volunteers for the Roanoke River Basin Association as the organization's legislative and regulatory advisor and also serves as a spokesperson for the Dan River Basin Association's Uranium Mining Task Force. Olga holds a position of attorney-advisor with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. Her primary expertise is in energy markets and energy policy. Olga received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from the Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA and her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Olga’s second home is in the Roanoke River Basin.
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Susan West Marmagas :Susan is the Associate Professor of Public Health Practice and Assistant Director, Public Health Program at Virginia Tech. Susan obtained her B.A. in International Studies at Earlham College continuing her education at University of California, Berkeley where she completed a Masters in Public Health, Health Education and Environmental Health. In 1997 she was the Director of Health and Environment at the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation moving on after 3 years to become the Director of Environmental and Health Programs, a non profit organization working with physicians for Social Responsibility. In 2009 Susan joined Virginia Tech as an Assistant Director in the Public Health Program moving to Associate Professor, her current position, in June 2010.
Bill Speiden was born in NYC in 1936. He moved to Virginia in 1937. Bill attended Cornell university where he obtained his BS in Animal Husbandry with a minor in Economics. As President of Hampstead Farm, Inc, the farm grew to 1600 acres with a total herd of 550 cattle, 280 of which were milk cows, the balance being beef steers and replacement heifers. In the 1970's Hampstead was the first farm in Orange County to put its acreage under easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. Bill served for ten years as the Chairman of the Orange County Planning Commission and was a member for 28 years. He is now retired. Bill has been the Legislative Director of the Orange County Farm Bureau since 1971 and is a past board member of the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District. From 1979 to 1982 he worked with PEC and the Legislature to pass the moratorium on uranium mining and milling in Virginia. Bill owned the most radioactive site in northern Virginia when the uranium interests came to lease his land in 1979. Despite riches promised, a visit to Colorado and Utah mines convinced him it was not worth the risk for neighbors down wind and downstream.
Patrick M. Wales has approximately five years of experience in the field of environmental and exploration geology. He is a geologist and the project manager for Virginia Uranium, Inc. Prior to his work at Virginia Uranium, Patrick served as Manager of Environmental Services for an engineering firm in Danville, Virginia. A native of Danville, Virginia, Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Radford University (cum laude) and a Master of Science Degree in Geology from the University of Mississippi. He is an Executive Committee member of the Virginia Section of the American Nuclear Society, is active in the Health Physics Society, the North American Young Generation in Nuclear, and represents the Nuclear Energy Institute as a speaker for the Clean Energy America speaker bureau.
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Dan Holmes joined the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) in 2000. He currently serves as the Director of State Policy, covering land use and transportation, energy policy, air and water quality, and other related issues. He has served as a member and chair of the State Advisory Board on Air Pollution (2001-2010) and participates on numerous state advisory committees on environmental and energy matters. Appointments include the 2007 VA Energy Plan Technical Advisory Committee, Mercury Advisory Committee, and the Solar and Wind Regulatory Advisory Panels. Dan lives in Culpeper, Virginia. He attended North Carolina State University and the Conway School. His undergraduate degree is in Horticulture and he holds a M.A. in Sustainable Planning and Landscape Design. Prior to moving to VA Dan worked as a designer for Sudbury Design Associates (Landscape Architect/Architecture firm) in Massachusetts. Other - 2004 alumni of the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute.
Panelists:
Olga Kolotushkina volunteers for the Roanoke River Basin Association as the organization's legislative and regulatory advisor and also serves as a spokesperson for the Dan River Basin Association's Uranium Mining Task Force. Olga holds a position of attorney-advisor with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. Her primary expertise is in energy markets and energy policy. Olga received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from the Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA and her J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Olga’s second home is in the Roanoke River Basin.
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Susan West Marmagas :Susan is the Associate Professor of Public Health Practice and Assistant Director, Public Health Program at Virginia Tech. Susan obtained her B.A. in International Studies at Earlham College continuing her education at University of California, Berkeley where she completed a Masters in Public Health, Health Education and Environmental Health. In 1997 she was the Director of Health and Environment at the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation moving on after 3 years to become the Director of Environmental and Health Programs, a non profit organization working with physicians for Social Responsibility. In 2009 Susan joined Virginia Tech as an Assistant Director in the Public Health Program moving to Associate Professor, her current position, in June 2010.
Bill Speiden was born in NYC in 1936. He moved to Virginia in 1937. Bill attended Cornell university where he obtained his BS in Animal Husbandry with a minor in Economics. As President of Hampstead Farm, Inc, the farm grew to 1600 acres with a total herd of 550 cattle, 280 of which were milk cows, the balance being beef steers and replacement heifers. In the 1970's Hampstead was the first farm in Orange County to put its acreage under easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. Bill served for ten years as the Chairman of the Orange County Planning Commission and was a member for 28 years. He is now retired. Bill has been the Legislative Director of the Orange County Farm Bureau since 1971 and is a past board member of the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District. From 1979 to 1982 he worked with PEC and the Legislature to pass the moratorium on uranium mining and milling in Virginia. Bill owned the most radioactive site in northern Virginia when the uranium interests came to lease his land in 1979. Despite riches promised, a visit to Colorado and Utah mines convinced him it was not worth the risk for neighbors down wind and downstream.
Patrick M. Wales has approximately five years of experience in the field of environmental and exploration geology. He is a geologist and the project manager for Virginia Uranium, Inc. Prior to his work at Virginia Uranium, Patrick served as Manager of Environmental Services for an engineering firm in Danville, Virginia. A native of Danville, Virginia, Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Radford University (cum laude) and a Master of Science Degree in Geology from the University of Mississippi. He is an Executive Committee member of the Virginia Section of the American Nuclear Society, is active in the Health Physics Society, the North American Young Generation in Nuclear, and represents the Nuclear Energy Institute as a speaker for the Clean Energy America speaker bureau.
http://www.dolleymadisongardenclub.org/Forms.html
