Post by Good Mind Seeds on May 9, 2012 13:57:47 GMT -5
"Hasn't the Navajo Nation, and Church Rock in particular, suffered enough from uranium mining? And what is anyone thinking to give an exemption allowing the mining company to contaminate an aquifer? Whatever they may or may not have understood in the past, when this agreement was made, they know better now. We cannot allow the grandfathering in of environmentally unsound projects. That would be like saying cigarette companies who were founded before we understood the connection between smoking and cancer could still claim cigarettes are safe even though we know differently." - Dr Helen Caldicott