Posted by laceprincess on Mar 12 2008 8:51AM - Big deal if they are going to monitor. Once they find contamination, it is too late. Here is a link to an article that tells of a spill of contaminated water in Nebraska by Crow Butte Mining.

http://www.savecrowbutte.org/

In addition to the use of additional valuable water resources, CBR has admitted to:
1. A spill of approximately 300,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste at its mine in Crawford, Nebraska
2. Failure to clean up one-third of the spills equaling approximately 100,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste
3. Admission that a broken coupling led to a one gallon per minute leak for several years into the Brule aquifer.

Seems like at the meeting in Belfield the other night folks were told there had never been a case of contamination with in-situ leach mining???

http://www.txpeer.org/toxictour/uri.html

http://www.nunnglow.com/power-struggle-opponents-of-a-proposed-uranium-mine-near-nunn-find-kindred-spirits-in-south-texas.html

http://www.nunnglow.com/impacts/

I think that we better get this governor out of office before he allows all of southwest North Dakota to be destroyed. Millions in taxpayer dollars given to Great Northern Power for a gasifciation plant and a mine, now this? He sure is leaving his mark on us. I wonder what Theodore Roosevelt would say? Maybe something like...

"There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this
country."
Theodore Roosevelt
Source:Confession of Faith Speech, Progressive National Convention,
Chicago, IL, August 6, 1912

or...

"Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it
becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this
country as inexhaustible; this is not so."
Theodore Roosevelt
Source:Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1907

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