Public News Service - VA
August 19, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. - The fickle market is up at the moment for yellow-cake uranium, and one Virginia company would like to take advantage by tapping into a massive uranium deposit in Pittsylvania County. However, the proposition to suspend the state's 1982 moratorium on uranium mining comes with a lot of opposition from those who fear the economic and health impacts would be too great a price.
Trieste Lockwood, director of the Interfaith Power and Light environmental program at Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, says her group favors keeping the moratorium.
"Opening our Commonwealth's fields, valleys and water supplies to this kind of experimental mining in Virginia would benefit a few individuals, while risking the health, safety and prosperity of millions of Virginians. So, we're talking about our water supply, our health and our local economies."
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