Comments on: Why Won’t Virginia Allow Uranium Mining? http://www.delmarvadealings.com/2008/07/29/why-wont-virginia-allow-uranium-mining/ Political Dealings In and Around the Delmarva Peninsula Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:47:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cato http://www.delmarvadealings.com/2008/07/29/why-wont-virginia-allow-uranium-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 Cato Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:34:47 +0000 http://www.delmarvadealings.com/?p=2505#comment-4618 That's what regulation is for. Don't ban it. That’s what regulation is for. Don’t ban it.

]]> By: Virginia native http://www.delmarvadealings.com/2008/07/29/why-wont-virginia-allow-uranium-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-4617 Virginia native Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:31:17 +0000 http://www.delmarvadealings.com/?p=2505#comment-4617 Not dangerous? Maybe you didn't see stories such as the one out of Goliad County, Texas, earlier this year when officials announced plans to sue a uranium company in federal court on claims of contaminating drinking water. Or the recent story that Cameco alerted the Canada's regulators that they may have contaminated Lake Ontario. How many examples do you need? Is that considered tree-hugging, or is it considered being educated about risk-assessment? Do you realize they would likely proceed with open-pit mining, rather than the more "benign" ISL method, and in a rural but populated area dotted with private water wells? And in a climate prone to severe storms, flash flooding, high wind warnings (multiple ones this year), etc. I would caution folks to not blindly follow those who claim to have the solution to the energy crisis, especially when remediation of uranium mines & mills is estimated to run into the millions and millions of dollars. Check out www.wise-uranium.org for details (it's a world-driven Web site about the issue). Not dangerous? Maybe you didn’t see stories such as the one out of Goliad County, Texas, earlier this year when officials announced plans to sue a uranium company in federal court on claims of contaminating drinking water. Or the recent story that Cameco alerted the Canada’s regulators that they may have contaminated Lake Ontario. How many examples do you need? Is that considered tree-hugging, or is it considered being educated about risk-assessment? Do you realize they would likely proceed with open-pit mining, rather than the more “benign” ISL method, and in a rural but populated area dotted with private water wells? And in a climate prone to severe storms, flash flooding, high wind warnings (multiple ones this year), etc. I would caution folks to not blindly follow those who claim to have the solution to the energy crisis, especially when remediation of uranium mines & mills is estimated to run into the millions and millions of dollars. Check out http://www.wise-uranium.org for details (it’s a world-driven Web site about the issue).

]]> By: Cato http://www.delmarvadealings.com/2008/07/29/why-wont-virginia-allow-uranium-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-4616 Cato Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:18:15 +0000 http://www.delmarvadealings.com/?p=2505#comment-4616 With all due respect, your sources are the Virginia Beach Dems and the Virginia Tree Huggers? I've got almost as much faith in the propaganda of WET. I have a lot of faith in the material put out by Heritage. If you had read the links, one was just a blog post and the other was an article written by one of their fellows, they state that Uranium mining is ugly, but not dangerous. The moratorium should be lifted with legislation that requires the miner to restore any property. I don't advocate strip mining any more than you do. With all due respect, your sources are the Virginia Beach Dems and the Virginia Tree Huggers? I’ve got almost as much faith in the propaganda of WET.

I have a lot of faith in the material put out by Heritage. If you had read the links, one was just a blog post and the other was an article written by one of their fellows, they state that Uranium mining is ugly, but not dangerous.

The moratorium should be lifted with legislation that requires the miner to restore any property. I don’t advocate strip mining any more than you do.

]]> By: ShoreThings http://www.delmarvadealings.com/2008/07/29/why-wont-virginia-allow-uranium-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-4615 ShoreThings Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:47:41 +0000 http://www.delmarvadealings.com/?p=2505#comment-4615 http://www.vcnva.org/news/uranium_lte.html As recently as November 2007, job deficient Navajo Reservation in Arizona resisted renewed uranium mining interests because of previous experience of cancer rates, livestock deaths and water contamination. In the semi-arid West (10 to 15 inches of rain a year) radioactivity and associated toxic metals have shown up miles away from the mining site in time. http://www.vcnva.org/news/uranium_lte.html

As recently as November 2007, job deficient Navajo Reservation in Arizona resisted renewed uranium mining interests because of previous experience of cancer rates, livestock deaths and water contamination.

In the semi-arid West (10 to 15 inches of rain a year) radioactivity and associated toxic metals have shown up miles away from the mining site in time.

]]> By: ShoreThings http://www.delmarvadealings.com/2008/07/29/why-wont-virginia-allow-uranium-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-4614 ShoreThings Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:36:28 +0000 http://www.delmarvadealings.com/?p=2505#comment-4614 It appears that the ban has been in place for 25 years. This is not something new. Here are some reasons to continue the moratorium. http://www.vbdems.org/?p=2132 Here are some quick facts about uranium mining from Tidewater CCAN’s Rick Kennerly: 1. with just a slight increase in acidity of the water, uranium deposits are highly water soluble material 2. it takes 1-2 tons of ore to produce 1 lb of yellow cake uranium and of that only 1-2% is reactor quality material, that’s a lot of mine tailings 3. this is a slurry process sure to produce acres of dammed radioactive sludge near our waterways and ground water sources 4. the Pennsylvania county (Danville region) gets 44 inches of rain per year, increasing the likelihood of leeching or a dam break 5. uranium mining has never been attempted in an area with such a large population 6. the water shed from this region feeds both the Richmond (James River) and the Virginia Beach (Lake Gaston) water supplies. Maybe if you used a source other than heritage.org, whose post only links to other posts on heritage.org, you would provide a more complete picture of the issue. Uranium mining has only been done in sparsely populated desert regions for good reason. Your knee must hurt from all of those knee jerk reactions. It appears that the ban has been in place for 25 years. This is not something new. Here are some reasons to continue the moratorium.

http://www.vbdems.org/?p=2132

Here are some quick facts about uranium mining from Tidewater CCAN’s Rick Kennerly:
1. with just a slight increase in acidity of the water, uranium deposits are highly water soluble material
2. it takes 1-2 tons of ore to produce 1 lb of yellow cake uranium and of that only 1-2% is reactor quality material, that’s a lot of mine tailings
3. this is a slurry process sure to produce acres of dammed radioactive sludge near our waterways and ground water sources
4. the Pennsylvania county (Danville region) gets 44 inches of rain per year, increasing the likelihood of leeching or a dam break
5. uranium mining has never been attempted in an area with such a large population
6. the water shed from this region feeds both the Richmond (James River) and the Virginia Beach (Lake Gaston) water supplies.

Maybe if you used a source other than heritage.org, whose post only links to other posts on heritage.org, you would provide a more complete picture of the issue. Uranium mining has only been done in sparsely populated desert regions for good reason. Your knee must hurt from all of those knee jerk reactions.

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