Protect the Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining!

// added May 07, 2009 // 4 comments //
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Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Sierra Club

Before he left office, Bush-era Secretary of the Interior Dick Kempthorne ignored scientists and Congress and authorized destructive uranium mining on 1 million acres of land around the Grand Canyon. Soaring uranium prices have led mining companies to stake more than 10,600 claims on federal land - right along the Colorado River.

We can't let this uranium mining destroy the Grand Canyon! The mining would threaten the drinking water for 30 million people living in the western United States and could devastate tourism, which generates more than half a billion dollars for the economy.

Urge your Representative to work with new Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to permanently protect the Grand Canyon from uranium mining and pass the Grand Canyon Protection Act.

Please, take action and sign the petition

LiAnna
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4 comments // Protect the Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining!

  • JanforGore
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    • "The Bureau of Land Management has authorized several new uranium exploration permits near the Grand Canyon despite a congressional resolution last year barring new claims near the national park.

      According to documents released yesterday [pdf] by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Grand Canyon Trust, BLM on April 27 authorized Quaterra Alaska Inc. to conduct eight uranium mine exploration operations at five separate projects north of Grand Canyon National Park and west of the Kaibab Plateau.

      "Our understanding is that exploration can begin immediately," said Taylor McKinnon, director of CBD's public lands program."
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      Notice the date. April 27, 2009. Ken Salazar is there now and is allowing this to happen. And yet, they come out saying they want "renewable energy" sources, when that is really the catchphrase to include nuclear and "clean coal". Although, they never say THAT publicly. They always shield that agenda with the words solar and wind in their speeches. However, where are the subsidies in Congress still going? It ain't all solar and wind.

      So at some point if you care about this, you have to go beyond accusing Dirk Kempthorne. You have to also accuse Salazar along with Kempthorne and anyone else allowing this gross injustice to occur. There is no excuse to deface and pollute this sacred land and this national landmark except for profit.

      I am truly so disgusted with this government regardless of political party, and so tired of those on both sides who defend them clearly because they put party over country. So I don't know if this will do any good, but I did sign it anyway. Thanks Stopnoise.

    • 9 months ago
  • VoyagerFilms
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    • It would be a travesty to allow the mining to go forward. I am sure there are other places where the Bush Admin. has placed into jeopardy lands for profit. Let's stop them all.

    • 9 months ago
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