Stop Uranium Mining

Click here to sign the petition:http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-uranium-mining


Target:To Abolish Uranium Mining

Sponsored by: Trish Sturrock

Virginia Uranium, Inc., a new corporation, is seeking to lift the moratorium on Uranium Mining in Virginia.

Uranium production presents a serious threat to our water supplies.

Radioactive and other toxic gases and particles will be washed and blown from the mill tailings unless they are protected from rain and wind for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of years.

These toxins will then find their way into our waterways becoming a danger to people, livestock, wildlife and crops.

No one has yet put forth a means of controlling this type of pollution.

Below are just a few reasons we need to stop them:

1. The drinking water supply of Virginia Beach is downstream of the proposed mine in Southside. Other cities downstream of Uranium deposits include Fredericksburg and Richmond.

2. The radioactive waste produced by a uranium mining and milling operation is stored on site for more than 1,000 years. Any leakage could contaminate waterways and wells.

3. Uranium mining has left superfund federal clean-up sites everywhere it has been done west of the Mississippi River.

4. The coal ash spill that flooded 400 acres in Tennessee in 2008 was caused by the failure of an earthen dam similar to those used to contain uranium mining waste. The spill would have been much worse had it contained radioactive uranium 'tailings'.

5. No Uranium mining and milling operation has ever been licensed in the US east of the Mississippi. The region's wet climate and high population make it too risky.

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# 16:5:58 pm PDT, Apr 29, Name not displayed, Canada

the moratorium must NOT be lifted to enable uranium production.
# 15:5:47 pm PDT, Apr 29, Thorton Wells, Kansas

# 14:4:31 pm PDT, Apr 29, David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania

# 13:3:47 pm PDT, Apr 29, Sandi Fentiman, Canada
Poisoning of the land/wildlife/people hits EVERYONE faster than any of us may want to believe or acknowledge. The time to act is now!

# 12:3:38 pm PDT, Apr 29, Kristina Salgado, Arkansas

# 11:2:27 pm PDT, Apr 29, Mieke Bernaards, Belgium

# 10:12:44 pm PDT, Apr 29, Mervi Rantala, Finland

# 9:11:18 am PDT, Apr 29, Elizabeth Reynolds, United Kingdom
This is a worthy cause, please get your friends and family to sign! Another worthy cause :- The Venus Project is an Organisation that proposes a feasable plan of action for social change; one that works towards a peacful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines to strive toward where human rights are not only paper proclaimations but also a way of life. A world whe Mother Nature and Technology work together, not as two opposing forces. Where Resources and

Science are choices over Profit and Power. Please look up the website

http://www.thevenusproject.com/ and sign the petition. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/The-future-that-Humanity-Deserves

# 8:10:14 am PDT, Apr 29, Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece

# 7:9:54 am PDT, Apr 29, Maria Gonzalez, Uruguay

# 6:9:48 am PDT, Apr 29, Kristina Borisova, Bulgaria
STOP URANIUM MINING!!! It`s awful for the enviroment and we should have realised that nature is the most precious posesion we have and we must save it no matter what it will cost us, because without it we cannot survive.

# 5:9:13 am PDT, Apr 29, Marcin Sztwiertnia, Poland
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# 4:6:25 am PDT, Apr 29, Jamie Mills, Georgia

# 3:6:14 am PDT, Apr 29, Mike Downs, Missouri

# 2:5:45 am PDT, Apr 29, Name not displayed, Virginia
I am appalled at the lack of concern of our earth!

# 1:5:24 am PDT, Apr 29, Trish Sturrock, Virginia
We love the parks and recreation that Virginia has to offer - if Uranium mining is allowed all that may be gone. The uranium industry has an extremely poor environmental and public health history...in this time of technology surely there is a better way!