Public Awareness Meeting about Uranium Mining, Capitol Theatre March 30th, 7pm
Saturday, January 26th, 2008In order to inform the public about the large scale uranium mining plans already in motion for south eastern New Brunswick, a Public Awareness Meeting will take place at 7pm on Sunday March 30th, at the Capitol Theatre on Main Street in Moncton.
If anyone is interested in speaking at the meeting (especially if you happen to be well informed on the topic),
please contact Mr. Christian Theriault at ravenseye@hotmail.com
Uranium mining in New-Brunswick…did you know?
Multinational mining companies have thousands of mineral claims around New-Brunswick with the goal to find and extract Uranium for the energy market.
These mining claims are not restricted to crown lands. One such claim may be right on your property or next to it. Furthermore, mining Uranium is incredibly dangerous to people in the surrounding areas. Uranium is water soluble and the radioactive dust is airborne and at low altitude for hundreds of miles.
For more info on the health hazards of uranium mining, see
http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/Uranium
http://www.ccnr.org/uranium_deadliest.html
Uranium prospecting is being conducted in areas between Sussex and Moncton, including land that borders Turtle creek, the drinking water supply for Moncton, Riverview and Dieppe residents. Mineral exploration and prospecting on ‘PRIVATE PROPERTY’ have taken place near Moncton, on the Ammon and Irishtown Rds, near the Irishtown water reservoir, in the Shenstone valley and many surrounding areas.
See this map for claims in an area near you:
http://www1.gnb.ca/0078/GeoscienceDatabase/Claims/ClaimMaps-e.asp
Under the present mining act, the province of New Brunswick owns the mineral rights under your top soil (the top six inches of your property) if you are in a rural area. The government can authorize a mining company to exploit a mine if they find sufficient mineral deposits to do so. What that means for you is expropriation if it’s on your property or Cancer and Diabetes if it’s next door and you decide to stay. (you may get a small compensation if it’s your land but you have to leave.)
Our government will listen if enough citizens speak up. Together we can mobilize our province and ban Uranium mining. Please read and consider signing this petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-uranium-mining-in-new-brunswick
Please forward this to your friends and family and encourage them to do the same.
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Is the Health and Future of New Brunswick for sale!
According to the New Brunswick Natural Resource Directory, Multinational Mining companies have legally staked Uranium mining claims on private property and crown land throughout New Brunswick (1) including the turtle creek watershed area responsible for the Greater Moncton drinking water supply.
After consulting a number of credible international and Canadian academic studies (2) documenting the health and environmental risks associated with Uranium mining, I am appalled that our own Premier and his administration are willing to allow these companies to expose our air, water and soil to the toxins produced by Uranium mining in exchange for short term employment and money for the province.
How can this be since it has been demonstrated how lethal Uranium can be! and as Dr. Gordon Edwards, President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility ( http://www.ccnr.org/ ) points out: ‘… not only is exposed uranium dangerous , but it also lasts an eternity due to the half-life of thorium-230, the parent of radium. According to the CCNR, the quantity of Thorium 230 in uranium mining tailings will diminish by only one-half in roughly 245,000 years.”
Why then is the government of New-Brunswick considering uranium mining to be the way for developing new jobs and bringing money into the province? Will not the long term health costs
( http://www.ccnr.org/ceac_B.html ) and environmental costs (http://www.ccnr.org/Findings_Tailings.html )
offset any short term profits? Uranium doesn’t only affect the miners but everyone within hundreds of miles of a mine. Is this really how New-Brunswick wants to fulfill its goal for self sufficiency?
Dr. Gordon Edwards explains that ‘Bringing uranium to the surface through mining operations can release dust particles that can be lethal even in tiny quantities. Uranium goes through many changes, more lethal types of radioactive particles that can invade the human body, mutate cells and cause all sorts of damage. Uranium mines in Ontario and Saskatchewan have large deposits of waste materials that will remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years.” New Brunswick should not follow this deadly path.
I am officially requesting that the government of New Brunswick ban uranium mining and prospecting in our province. I agree with Dr. Edwards that in these times of environmental calamities, New Brunswick should be looking to invest in renewable, clean energy sources (3), such as geothermal, wind, the new solar technologies, tidal, and earth energy. Let’s create sustainable jobs and money in a manner that will allow us to maintain our healthy lifestyles, and provide a safe place to live for our children and grand children.
(1) http://www1.gnb.ca/0078/GeoscienceDatabase/Claims/ClaimMaps-e.asp
(2) http://www.ccnr.org/
http://www.wise-uranium.org/index.html
http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/Uranium
http://www.energyprobe.org/energyprobe/index.cfm
(3) http://offshoreenergyresearch.ca/OEER/StrategicEnvironmentalAssessment/
BackgroundreportfortheFundyTidalEnergySEA/tabid/280/Default.aspx
http://www.gnb.ca/0085/alt.htm
http://www.canren.gc.ca/default_en.asp
http://www.ccnr.org/amory.html