After attending public hearings on the uranium mining controversy in Colorado here's what I've learned:
The mining industry is salivating over the rising value of uranium. The price has risen because China and India are building nuclear power plants. It is also rising because Dick Cheney and the Bush administration like nukes. I think it is part of Cheney's secret energy plan. Why secret? Nukes can kill a lot of people or make them very sick. Frail memories have faded. The disasters at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island never happened.
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Uranium industry lobbyists are in bed with sympathetic politicians because nuclear power plants can't be built without billions in taxpayer subsidies. They are too expensive for private corporations to build and operate.
Looking at the big picture, there are currently 4,000 uranium mine applications pending in Colorado alone. These mines will consume and contaminate millions of gallons of our water per month. Water travels underground for hundreds of miles. It will pass through every crack and crevice in the rock. No mining company can guarantee it won't.
Bloated on the usual propaganda, industry cheerleaders are trying to convince us how safe and wonderful nukes are. It reminds me of the DDT experiment in the 1950s. People were soaking their hair in that poison. This time, with rising cancer rates, most people aren't buying it.
For more information, go to www.nunnglow.com. Help stop this potential disaster.
Jim Vassallo,
Fort Collins
2 comments:
Jim, please be aware that I am in 100% agreement that uranium should not be mined anywhere. However, I must point out that VP Dick Cheney has no "secret energy plan" that could be successfully launched with mere months left in the Bush administration.
I respectively recommend that we should be inclusive of all political persuassions in our appeal as even right-wing Republicans do not want to be inundated with radiation. You can include myself in the latter group!
Mr. Chaney...Please know that Mr. Cheney has indeed had at least one "secret energy plan" that was exposed by Judicial Watch a few years ago (link below). I doubt seriouly that we know all of Mr. Cheney's wheelings and dealings in the world of energy.
http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:nqvwQv3z9bYJ:www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/8.html+dick+cheney+secret+energy+plan&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Judicial Watch, by its own definition, is "a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation" which "promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law" and "advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people". Please don't confuse yourself or anyone else by claiming that JW is run by Democrats or "left-wing radicals" as it is not. It attacks Democrats with zeal.
Please don't kid yourself, or try to delude anyone else into believing, that come November, 2008, things set into motion by the Bush-Cheney administration, or by Mr. Cheney's ties to the world's energy lords will come to a halt or cease to exist. As Shakespeare said, "The evil that men do lives after them...."
Republicans have been very cruel to the environment in this country during the past 7+ years and staunchly support nuclear energy which includes nuclear mining. I applaud your taking a stance against the proposed uranium mining in spite of your chosen party's position. I have to ask this, though: if the proposed mining were not in your back yard (so to speak), would you still be opposed to it?
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