Comment: Please vote to keep the Ban in VA plus write the leaders of VA and tell them to keep the ban too!
AN Open Letter to Virginia Activists on Keep the Uranium Ban in VA
Greetings
We need everyone's participation to prevail against the imminent threat of uranium mining in Virginia.
Lifting the moratorium would open the floodgates to numerous mining opportunists throughout Virginia and with questionable safety nets and oversight. If mining happens then Virginia will become environmentally defiled forever. Contaminated water sources would bring a blight upon Virginia and compromise the health of its citizens for many generations. Watershed left in the wake of mining would stand as a ready vehicle to deliver contaminants of mining wastes as containment structures fail in future years. It is a set up for perpetual if not immediate disaster. The nightmare of "dead zones" and "sacrificial area" is but a vote away. Virginians are largely unaware of the environmental implications associated with uranium mining. The bulk of information presented by the media has been paid for by VUI (Virginia Uranium Incorporated). We need to change that.
We are asking for your help in this grass roots effort to keep the ban on mining Virginia intact.
We are asking you to spread the word, to call your state representatives and implore them to "keep the ban".
We are asking you to write letters to the editor stating your concerns.
-call and write your representatives
-lobby them
-Bring the message to church, business,schools
-Visit your town council, board of supervisors, etc. Ask for and expect a resolution condemning the mining of Virginia
-Organize a local chapter to stand united.
-Do what you can to bring this subject out of the closet and fully exposed as the pestilent folly for which it is.
The mining proponents are hoping that we will apathetically sleep through this corporate rollover. But we are waking up. We realize the value of our water and air. We feel the potential and power within ourselves to stand firm and protect this land as inheritors of a sacred place. A victory in " keeping the ban" will bolster our efforts on every environmental front. The unity we will achieve will strengthen all of our environmental efforts to keep Virginia clean and its citizens healthy.
Thank You
Friend of the Keep the Ban
I include here links pertaining to this issue:
http://keeptheban.org/
http://keeptheban.org/?page_id=237
(Please note that there is a statewide petition which you can sign online at this site.)
The Endangered Roanoke River Needs Your Help!
https://secure3.convio.net/citnet/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=603
Informative Blogs:
http://www.pecva.org/anx/index.cfm/1,391,0,44,html/Uranium
http://www.southernenvironment.org/virginia/uranium_mining_in_virginia/
http://lifeincva.blogspot.com/
http://uraniumfreevirginia.blogspot.com/
http://virginiaagainsturanium.blogspot.com/
http://prideva.blogspot.com/
http://wise-uranium.org/
http://dls.state.va.us/groups/cec/Uranium/meetings.htm
http://danvilleregionalfoundation.org/news/2010/20100618-UraniumStudyProposals.php
http://www2.godanriver.com/news/2010/apr/01/virginia_beach_outlines_uranium_concerns-ar-270571/
http://www.earthworksaction.org/pubs/ComparisonsReportFinal.pdf
Comparison of Predicted and Actual Water Quality at Hardrock Mines
http://204.12.38.203/archives/34/lewis.pdf
Keeping Agriculture Alive in the Shadow of a Uranium Mine: Potential Effects and Regulatory Solutions for Virginia
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