Jouni Sakari Kemppinen Kristinn Hrafnsson I ask you and your friends and family to pray for us all~~ especially, because of what happened to Karen Silkwood, according to Wikipedia: {{{ Karen Silkwood: Activist Karen Gay Silkwood was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety of workers in a nuclear facility. Wikipedia }}} This is probably the most factual article I have read thus far on the Uranium mines that still need to be cleaned up, and here are a few excerpts from Tallis article: { The EPA has developed preliminary remediation goals intended to be protective of human health and the environment around the site. No such work has been done at Dewey-Burdock. } { Sacred sites off-limits due to radioactive waste Like many mines, Riley Pass and other nearby sites contain not only uranium but also other hazardous and radioactive substances, such as arsenic, molybdenum, thorium, radium and uranium. The Custer National Forest has issued a special order closing access to the area “due to the human health, safety and environmental concerns related to elevated levels of these substances.” } { In a separate case, Kerr-McGee paid $1.38 million in a settlement with the family of its former laboratory technician Karen Silkwood after she was found to have been exposed to unusually high levels of plutonium at work. The Supreme Court’s 1979 judgment for damages, following her death in a vehicle crash on the way to meet with a New York Times reporter and a union representative, inspired the Academy Award-nominated 1983 movie Silkwood about the murder of an environmental whistleblower. } { “The costs for reclamation of any new uranium exploration and mining operations must in the future be borne by the mining industry itself,” it states. Powertech wants to reopen mines without cleanup In the case of the Edgemont Mining Area, a corporation new to the Black Hills is applying for permits to reopen the abandoned mines without doing any cleanup of the existing waste. Powertech Corp., under the majority ownership of the Hong Kong-headquartered Azarga Resources Ltd., ....} and there is so much more information here to justify no more uranium mining until the clean-ups are fully accomplished.....
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:46:10 +0000