Mayors seek mining moratorium
The Forum des maires Acadie-Beauséjour in southeastern New Brunswick is asking the province to impose an interim moratorium on delivering permits for uranium mine exploration in the region.
Dieppe mayor and forum president Achille Maillet said several meetings have been held in southeastern N.B. concerning the possible dangers of uranium.
"We want to protect not only our water supply sources but also our beautiful scenery. We have seen pictures of areas where uranium mining has been allowed and we don't want the environment to be destroyed because of uranium mining," he said in a press release.
Companies have been staging aerial explorations to identify possible uranium deposits in the region.
Several explorations have been held in areas such as Kent, Westmorland and Albert counties.
The nine municipalities, which are members of the Mayors' Forum, adopted a resolution to respectively submit to their municipal councils a resolution requesting that the provincial government deny all permit applications for uranium mining in the region.
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