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Published: November 6, 2008
A state panel voted today to study whether uranium can be safely mined in Virginia.
The Virginia Commission on Coal and Energy voted 12-0 for the study. A state House of Delegates committee killed a study proposal in March. But the commission’s chairman, Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Scott, said that panel is probably the best group to oversee a study.
Mining supporters say roughly $8 billion worth of uranium may lie underground in Pittsylvania County in south-central Virginia. They say mining it would help address America’s energy problems. Opponents say mining could pollute waters, land and crops with radioactive waste.
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Of course I’m not wishing a bus accident befall you, I’m merely pointing out the folly of your curious attempt to avoid catastrophe by moving away from a perceived threat even if that “threat” is proven to be safe.
Life is like that. Stuff happens. As I said before, there is only one truly safe place in the world. I hope you enjoy your padded cell. Or plastic bubble. Or wherever you find that sense of security you so desperately desire.
wow…thank you for that bus accident mishap. not really comparible to a uranium accident, but if that’s where you see it, so be it. Obviously you are pro uranium mining. I do not make my statements out of ignorance. I have done my own research on this…enjoy your mine…I hope you don’t have a bus accident on the way there. Goodnight and good luck
I too have traveled the world. I have worked in the mining industry as well.
Your statement, “...I’m not sticking around for that one unforeseen accident!“, however, is as inane as any I’ve ever encountered.
Perhaps you’ll find that shangri la where nothing unfortunate ever occurs, and I sincerely hope you do, but I’m betting you won’t. You may even get hit by a bus on your way there.
imnotemeril - you read alot into my post. where did I ever say that I’m looking for “zero dangers”. I’m well aware of what goes on in this world. I have lived many places in my life, traveled to many countries and would never pick a place to live that has uranium mining in their backyard. I wish you well if you stay here with the mining. “They” will tell you that it’s safe, people will earn millions and millions of dollars and I bet that you will earn the stigma of living in a county that people will see as nothing but the “uranium mining county”.
samsacres, you are aware, I hope, that the one truly safe place in the world is solitary confinement.
I wish you well my friend in your quest for a “safe” place with zero dangers.
I know I will be looking to move in the next year or two. We just moved to Danville three years ago and have enjoyed it. This decision has now made a decision for us and a few of the other people we know that have moved here recently. Again, a decision in favor of business and not of that for the people. What a shame! Even if it finds that mining can be done safely, I’m not sticking around for that one unforeseen accident!
In case any of my fellow Danvillians and Pitts. Co. residents have ever questioned what your lives were worth, today we know the answer; roughly 8 billion dollars.
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