We agree..............uranium mining in Virginia MUST be considered now more than ever!
However, it must be considered versus its costs to the community! Virginia Uranium, Inc (VUI), and all of its Multi-National and Local Corporations that it hides its liabilities behind, wants us to view the delay by Wal-MART n building its Blairs location as a result of our state's General Assembly failing to endorse VUI's version of a uranium mining study.
This is not true! VUI was offered an alternative study method that would be more people-environment friendly and VUI turned it down outright! Only then, did the General Assembly turn VUI's proposal down.
VUI would have us believe that nuclear power is the only way out from under the clutches of foreign oil-providing nations. Yet, just within the last week has news come out that North Dakota and surrounding US states have lying below their lands enough oil there alone to provide all of the country's oil needs for decades to come. The projections are for 500 BILLION barrels of oil.......more than Saudi Arabia's largest oil field!!!!
And this does not take into account all of the vast oil deposits in Alaska, if Congress would just allow us to develop it. Who needs the risk of uranium mining and nuclear production of energy when we have all this oil at our fingertips? The fact/myth of global warming continues to be a hotly debated item and recent weather conditions raise alarm at the fact.
Regardless of the supposed need for uranium production, the act of producing uranium from a mine does remain a risky matter for those within the mine's reach. This blog has published hundreds of posts showing the terrible effects on humans, birth defects, plant life, waters, pets, crops, and livestock from uranium mining. There is no need to duplicate them in this post. Feel free to browse our Blog.
The key question is this:
Is a $6.00 an hr job, a $7.00 an hr job, maybe even an $8.00 an hour job at Wal-Mart worth getting uranium poisoning or cancer or a birth defect in your new-born child? I think NOT !
1 comment:
Can you even read? I will translate for you.
My point in my post yesterday was that times are hard, even for Wal-Mart. And if times are hard for a company like Wal-Mart, do you think they will be better for any other company in this area? Additionally, if Wal-Mart doesn't think another store could survive here, where it's the only place people go to get anything, what does that say about the economic projections of our region specifically?
I did not in any way, shape, or form say that Wal-Mart's decision not to build here had anything to do with the ridiculous decision to squash SB 525. If you had read more than the headline and the first sentence, you would have known that. Stop posting about things you don't read.
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