Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Uranium Mining: BREDL Statement to the Uranium Working Group

Uranium Mining: BREDL Statement to the Uranium Working Group
in Richmond, VA

Nov. 27, 2012: The environmental and public health impacts of uranium mining and milling are life-threatening and long-lasting. They include massive amounts of radioactive and toxic rock and sand, or “tailings,” surface and groundwater contaminated with radioactive and toxic pollutants, and airborne releases of conventional, toxic and radioactive pollution.

Read BREDL Statement : http://www.bredl.org/pdf3/121127_BREDL_comments_to_Virginia_UWG.pdf

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 Phone Numbers: Office: (804) 786-2211, Fax: (804) 371-6351 TTY/TDD (For the deaf or hard-of-hearing): 1-800-828-1120, or 711 : http://www.governor.virginia.gov/CommunityRelations/ 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

Virginia Against Uranium Mining

Tuesday, November 27, 2012