Comments on: The Seattle Times excellent article on Uranium mining http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-seattle-times-excellent-article-on-uranium-mining/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Richarde http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-seattle-times-excellent-article-on-uranium-mining/#comment-4569 David Richarde Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:41:56 +0000 http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-seattle-times-excellent-article-on-uranium-mining/#comment-4569 The relevance is this and the two words are these-Civil Disobedience. Henry David Thoreau invented the term and used it. Gandhi educated himself on the principals and used them. Martin Luther King used the principal. IT is about clogging with your entire weight the machine that knows one thing-to take and take, without compensation or sharing, without concern for the destruction of homeland or life. Let us use these principals and the courts to stop Kennecott. The relevance is this and the two words are these-Civil Disobedience.

Henry David Thoreau invented the term and used it. Gandhi educated himself on the principals and used them. Martin Luther King used the principal. IT is about clogging with your entire weight the machine that knows one thing-to take and take, without compensation or sharing, without concern for the destruction of homeland or life.

Let us use these principals and the courts to stop Kennecott.

]]> By: igmuska http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-seattle-times-excellent-article-on-uranium-mining/#comment-4567 igmuska Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:47:41 +0000 http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-seattle-times-excellent-article-on-uranium-mining/#comment-4567 the irony is that today the USEPA and DOI are asking for comments on the new regulations on <a href="http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2008/February/Day-29/w3683.htm" rel="nofollow">Natural Resources Damages</a> as well as that the US Senate recently approved the Indian Health Care Improvement Act which adds more funds on study environmental pollution affecting Native Americans on reservations. GENOCIDE!!!! HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS SHAME ON BUSH SHAME ON US NO NUKES NO COAL NO MORE LIES the irony is that today the USEPA and DOI are asking for comments on the new regulations on Natural Resources Damages as well as that the US Senate recently approved the Indian Health Care Improvement Act which adds more funds on study environmental pollution affecting Native Americans on reservations.

GENOCIDE!!!! HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

SHAME ON BUSH
SHAME ON US

NO NUKES
NO COAL
NO MORE LIES

]]> By: Kay Cumbow http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-seattle-times-excellent-article-on-uranium-mining/#comment-4565 Kay Cumbow Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:46:36 +0000 http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-seattle-times-excellent-article-on-uranium-mining/#comment-4565 This has relevance for Michigan citizens in many ways. Some of the key reasons are noted here: Michigan has uranium exploration going on now in the U.P.; Michigan utilizes nuclear power for electricity, which uses uranium fuel; Several uranium mines have operated in northern Ontario (including Serpent River, Elliot Lake area, for example) and a uranium refinery which operated for years at Blind River, Ontario; these sites (among others) continue to leach uranium and radioactive byproducts into Lake Huron; uranium mining may restart in the Elliot Lake region; uranium hexafluoride crosses the Blue Water Bridge on a routine basis, heading from Canada to points south. These alone are compelling reasons for folks to support and attend these critical citizen's hearings in eastern Ontario. Uranium mines worldwide tend to be located on First Nation, Black, and Indigenous People's lands giving a "boom and bust" economy. The "bust" part of this cycle leaves the land and waters devastated, with an enormous cost to the health of the community including cancers, birth defects, emphysema, leukemias, etc. -Kay More information available at: http://www.uraniumcitizensinquiry.com/ The Community Coalition Against Uranium Mining (CCAMU) is holding a Citizens Inquiry on the Impacts of the Uranium Fuel Cycle, from exploration and mining through enrichment, power generation and weapons potential to spent fuel rod disposal. This will involve, among other things, public hearings, written and oral submissions and the creation of a document encompassing the results of the Inquiry. The Inquiry welcomes factual material from experts, stakeholders and those interested in uranium, as well as commentary on community, health and social justice issues and the environment. This has relevance for Michigan citizens in many ways. Some of the key reasons are noted here: Michigan has uranium exploration going on now in the U.P.; Michigan utilizes nuclear power for electricity, which uses uranium fuel; Several uranium mines have operated in northern Ontario (including Serpent River, Elliot Lake area, for example) and a uranium refinery which operated for years at Blind River, Ontario; these sites (among others) continue to leach uranium and radioactive byproducts into Lake Huron; uranium mining may restart in the Elliot Lake region; uranium hexafluoride crosses the Blue Water Bridge on a routine basis, heading from Canada to points south. These alone are compelling reasons for folks to support and attend these critical citizen's hearings in eastern Ontario. Uranium mines worldwide tend to be located on First Nation, Black, and Indigenous People's lands giving a "boom and bust" economy. The "bust" part of this cycle leaves the land and waters devastated, with an enormous cost to the health of the community including cancers, birth defects, emphysema, leukemias, etc. -Kay

More information available at: http://www.uraniumcitizensinquiry.com/

The Community Coalition Against Uranium Mining (CCAMU) is holding a Citizens Inquiry on the Impacts of the Uranium Fuel Cycle, from exploration and mining through enrichment, power generation and weapons potential to spent fuel rod disposal.

This will involve, among other things, public hearings, written and oral submissions and the creation of a document encompassing the results of the Inquiry. The Inquiry welcomes factual material from experts, stakeholders and those interested in uranium, as well as commentary on community, health and social justice issues and the environment.

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