Broadcast at noon on Wednesday on WRIR lp 97.3 FM and WRIR.ORG and 11 a.m. on the webstream on Thursday.
Lightly on the Ground Radio features a parlor conversation among several who spoke at 53rd Garden Club of Virginia Conservation Public Education Forum entitled Uranium: What Should Virginia Do?
Olga Kolutushkina,(legislative and regulatory adviser to the Roanoke River Basin Association), Robert E. Moran, Ph.D. (geologicist and geochemist and partner in Michael-Moran Assoc., LLC, in Golden, CO), and Paul Robinson, (Research Director for Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, NM) joined Sunny Gardener in the parlor of the Jepson Center at University of Richmond for a candid conversation about the forum.
We discussed several discrepancies between the fact and the talking points being used to promote the safety of mining uranium in a major watershed. The focus is on an effort to rescind the 1982 ban on uranium mining. Topics include the effect on agriculture and tourism, the Commonwealth’s two major industries; the difficulty in predicting the behavior of radioactive tailings stored in robust plastic bags for thousands of years, and the cost of reclamation and restoration which would, very probably, revert to the state and federal governments, that is to taxpayers.
Broadcast at noon on Wednesday on WRIR lp 97.3 FM and WRIR.ORG and 11 a.m. on the webstream on Thursday. Befriend Lightly on the Ground Radio on Facebook so you’ll know who future guests will be and when shows are available to podcast.
Patricia Stansbury
Epic Gardens
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