Our legislative committee has been hard at work for the past month tracking legislation and lobbying our state legislators to protect our access to clean air and water. I wanted to take a few minutes to give you a mid-session update on Sierra Club’s priorities.
Uranium Ban to [...]
For Immediate Release
January 19, 2012
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Lisa Guthrie (804) 240-1976
Mary Rafferty (401) 862-8749
Chris Miller (540) 347-2334
Conservation Groups Disappointed by
Governor’s Administrative Directive on Uranium Mining
In response to Governor McDonnell’s recent directive, conservation organizations expressed concern about the rush to write regulations for the uranium industry behind closed doors.
“On behalf of Virginians across the Commonwealth, we are disappointed by [...]
For more information & to track this issue throughout the General Assembly session visit:
www.KeepTheBan.org
Virginia has a nearly 30-year ban on uranium mining. A well financed push by the industry is trying to lift the ban so they can mine and process uranium, starting in Southside Virginia. Drinking water, human health, farmland, property values, wildlife [...]
Today the Roanoke River was included in American Rivers’ 26th annual list of the 10 most endangered waterways in America. American Rivers says lifting the ban on uranium mining would threaten the Roanoke River as well as drinking water supplies in the region with radioactive pollution and toxic chemicals.
The Sierra Club Virginia Chapter commends the City of Virginia Beach for commissioning an independent study on the impacts of uranium mining on the city’s drinking water supply.
“The Virginia Beach study modeled severe rain events occurring in the area for proposed uranium mining in Virginia”, said Eileen Levandoski, conservation program manager with the [...]
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