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Uranium Mining in The Black Hills - A path of destruction from which there is no return

"Uranium Mining in the Black Hills"

Director / Editor, Christopher Crosby
Producers, Karla LaRive, Susan Watt and the Institute of Range and American Mustang
Interviews by Dayton O. Hyde, Susan Watt, Michael Bucher, Barbara Peltier & Tom Ballanco

Original Music by Windwalker, Michael Bucher

Governments and the uranium industry say the mining and milling of uranium provides high-paying and much-needed jobs in some of the most remote areas of the country, with manageable environmental risks. But it's an industry that has long attracted its share of controversy.

This is a major concern for the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in western South Dakota, and other residents including environmental and conservation groups. The Sierra Club of South Dakota warns that water pollution will be a major concern if the mining company Powertech is given a permit to mine for uranium. Shirley Frederick, with the Sierra Club’s Black Hills Group, says there’s a high likelihood that aquifers will become polluted if an injection-well recovery system is used to mine the ore.
“It’s a huge potential for contamination of groundwater.”

Powertech Inc USA has submitted its uranium mining application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and it can be viewed at the NRC website. The NRC has announced a time period for interested individuals to voice their concerns regarding the uranium mine’s impacts to the environment. This proposed uranium mine will be the first time folks can be heard under the new GEIS.

The Institute of Range and American Mustang (IRAM) founded by Dayton O. Hyde in 1988 is a 501 © 3 non-profit corporation registered in the state of South Dakota.

IRAM owns 13,000 acres of private land dedicated to range preservation and a balanced ecosystem. IRAM’s finest gift is The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, whose purpose is to provide not only freedom for unadoptable and unwanted wild horses, but also a research area dedicated to solving wild horse herd management that will contribute to the well-being of wild horses everywhere.

http://wildmustangs.com
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8 comments // Uranium Mining in The Black Hills - A path of destruction from which there is no return // Video

  • susanwatt
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    • Susan Watt
      With this video Uranium Mining in The Black Hills, we hope to educate the public as to the dangers of the project. Thanks to Karla LaRive and Chris Cosby for creating this form of media to help reach the people. Please watch the footage and learn. We do have choices and can take a stand.

      Help pass the message to others.

    • 1 year ago
  • susanwatt
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    • Susan Watt
      If we are the masters of our destiny, do we have the right to destroy what has been given to us for all time? Once the water is polluted there is no going back. Uranium money can not bring back life it only can decimate and ruin the very planet that we honor. Oh what, foolish folly man has, that thinks that money is the answer! The plans for the uranium at the Dewey Burdock Project is not to generate power in the US but to be sold by a Canadian company to China and India. The very yellow cake so sought after for the riches that one thinks it can bring may one day come back as weapons to wipe all of us out.

    • 1 year ago
  • figgdimension
  • ampersand
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    • figgdimension:

      You're right. It was stolen, and in clear and direct violation of signed treaties. There has long been a movement for redress of this. The government has discussed compensation but I think it has gone the way of most such efforts, into a infinite state of "turnaround."

    • 1 year ago
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