Emotions run high at NRC meeting

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:13 AM EDT

Article Source: Gallup Independent

us-news, uranium, in-situ-leach, contamination, navajo, nrc, geis

Cradling her infant daughter, Lynnea Smith of Crownpoint — who helped push the Navajo Nation's ban on uranium mining and milling — tried to hold back her emotions as she spoke, but the tears of frustration came anyway.

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igmuska

Foreign corporate nuclear industries using Americans to commit acts of genocide against the Navajo, offering money for uranium....AGAIN

The meeting was about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's traveling roadshow where they discussed the draft GEIS (Generic Environmental Impact Statement) needed for the uranium mining industry to begin the licensing process.
The link to the relevant information is here: Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities - Draft Report for Comment (NUREG-1910, Vols. 1-2).

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2 votes

#1 - Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:21 AM EDT

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energynet

Thanks dude!

I'm up late...

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1 vote

#2 - Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:42 AM EDT

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gladbutterfly

It's the same old battle, over and over again. So depressing.

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1 vote

#3 - Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:49 PM EDT

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energynet

Anyone who has a minute or two, we urgently need people to request 180 day delays on the closing of the GEIS...

You can go to this link and quickly post a request here.

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1 vote

#4 - Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:03 AM EDT

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igmuska

The NRC will not address comments on the following issues:

1. NRC's licensing process and the decision to prepare the Draft GELS.

2. General support or opposition for GElS or uranium milling.

3. Requests for cooperation or agreements.

4. Matters that are regulated by Agreement States.

5. Impacts associated with conventional uranium milling past or present.

6. Requests for compensation for past mining impacts.

7. Resolution of dual regulation issues.

8. Consideration of human-induced climate change.

9. Analysis of all variations of ISL technology.

10. Alternative sources of uranium.

11. Cumulative Impact Analysis.

12. Energy debate.

13. NRC credibility.

The NRC does want us to review the current draft GEIS and make comments concerning the following items.

1. Proposed Action and Alternatives.

2. Applicable Statutes, Regulations, and Agencies.

3. Purpose of the Draft GElS and Use in Site-Specific Licensing Reviews.

4. Opportunities for Public Involvement.

5. Applicable Rulemaking Activities.

6. Land Use.

7. Transportation.

8. Geology.

9. Water Resources.

10. Ecology.

11. Meteorology, Climatology, and Air Quality.

12. Noise.

13. Historic and Cultural.

14. Visual Resources.

15. Socioeconomics.

16. Public and Occupational Health.

17. Waste Management.

18. Decontamination, Decommissioning, Reclamation.

19. Accidents.

20. Environmental Justice.

21. Cumulative Impacts.

22. Monitoring.

23. Financial Assurance.

In other words, read the GEIS and help sanity return to our energy policy. Let's take back our energy policy from the foreigners controlling our economy.
If enough of us request an extension to the deadline ending the comment period, the NRC will grant our request, regardless of what Wyo. Gov. Freudenthal says. But whatever you do, don't use comments such as NUKES IS BAD, read the GEIS first. My personal feeling is that it is just a high priced prospecting guide for the foreign controlled uranium mining companies using American lackeys to promote their agendas!

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2 votes

#5 - Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:13 AM EDT

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Andrew Spagnoli

The cycle of false promises, poisoned lands, ravaged heritage and stolen futures... what can one say to excuse the horrors of this past? What troubles me most here is that the same false promises are being offered at every level of the nuclear industry effort to reassert itself as the biggest and most deadly, destructive and wasteful boondoggle ever invented. They want our land, our tax subsidies, they want long-term deals to sell us electricity from nukes that is more expensive than any other energy source, be it a green energy or just fossil fuel. I had hoped that this chapter was behind us....

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3 votes

#6 - Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:59 AM EDT

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energynet

Here's a link to the full alert as it currently stands.

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1 vote

#7 - Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:21 PM EDT

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igmuska

Taking us away from this topic is not very productive. Although your intentions are good, the link does not give emotion back to the main article. The lady, holding her baby, crying that they are going to allow it again, that they don't remember how much they suffered from uranium mining.

She cried for those Native Americans in their room, selling their spirituality for the love of royalties and mineral lease money as they did during the first uranium boom. After being forced to remember by that lady holding the truth in her arms, they put their heads down in shame or to hide a smirk.

Whatever the case, it still stand to reason that the nuclear industry needs cheap sources of uranium to fuel their reactors, that uranium is always found on Native American land.

Although the Navajo situation may seem bleak, hopeless, today's world and people are much more caring and sincere, tribal members have more authority, tribal governments are more transparent with more authority and sovereignty. This time selling uranium will be far more difficult as there are more people becoming aware that nuclear energy needs to sacrifice Native Americans so the East Coast cities can have their billboards, their city lights. As there are blood diamonds, this is blood electricity.

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2 votes

#7.1 - Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:28 AM EDT

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Andrew Spagnoli

Also, more so than ever before, there are very realistic alternatives to the plan to build new reactors and extend the lifetimes of existing reactors. Hopefully, the effort to save native lands from uranium extraction will grow. Efforts to encourage more responsible and sustainable lifestyles on the East Coast corridor, as well as the Western cities, etc. need to grow also. Just as the direct victims of these energy policies can stand together, so can those who are part of the problem work to be responsible consumers, use energy efficiently and create demand for energy sources that are both clean AND fair-trade based. Consuming electricity from nuclear and outdated fossil fuel technologies creates the demand ($$$ in other words) to drive both pollution AND exploitation and environmental racism. A PR effort, similar to the blood diamond campaign, as you mentioned, could help explain the connection between actions in New York, and what happens to the Earth and to the Peoples of the Earth, even far away.

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2 votes

#7.2 - Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:42 PM EDT

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