U.S. activists battle Australian company’s new uranium mine
Activists battle new uranium mine request
They want a closer look taken by regulators.
07/31/2009
Two environmental groups are trying to block Utah’s first new uranium mine in three decades. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Uranium Watch want the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to rethink its approval of the Daneros Mine, located about 10 miles from Natural Bridges National Monument.The groups also want the federal agency to stop Australia-based White Canyon Uranium from mining its Daneros claim until BLM’s Utah director, Selma Sierra, determines whether her agency studied the environmental consequences sufficiently.
“There are a lot of issues associated with uranium mining that were not adequately assessed before the permits were issued,” Liz Thomas, an attorney for SUWA, said Friday…………………..Besides possible harm to the air and water, she said, the cumulative impacts of the Daneros Mine and other nearby uranium For instance, mine waste, called “tailings,” from past uranium mining remains piled up on the Daneros site, Thomas noted. In addition, if old mines reopen in the area, there will be more ore trucks traveling the backcountry roads on their way to the uranium mill in Blanding.
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