If the moratorium that has kept a ban from mining Uranium in the Coles Hill area of Chatham – Pittsylvania County, VA – is lifted, may God bless VA weather and the residents who live there (including me when I finally get to move there after restoring the old farmhouse – just five miles away from the proposed site).
Instead of writing a list about why it is a bad idea, let me leave the reader with a few YouTube videos that I found, which will give you an idea of how dangerous lifting this ban is, and mostly it is all about VA type of weather and hydrology.
The first video will give the reader a bit of history on how this all started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6rVUkyq_Wc
About what residents living there will loose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL1Ich2dWRw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epFdrAIxbY
Huge flood in Coles Hill area – 1996
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mcUYAi_O4
North Carolina joins to support the ban and this is why this affects NC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mtFZMf1_w
The last speaker on this video makes a good point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nnQ4AmWiL8
The people from Pittsylvania County and beyond do not want the ban to be lifted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30giLNF9NpQ
And I leave you with this last video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4TKOqLPvmE
If this ban is lifted, living in this small town would be hell. Just think of the pollutants, the noisy equipment, constant movement of mine vehicles … and just picture the worst case scenario … May God bless Pittsylvania County, its residents, and all the people beyond this area who will be affected.
Please sign the petition to keep the ban.
Inkspeare 