Should the Obama administration allow uranium mining near the Grand Canyon?

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In the coming weeks, the Obama administration will issue a decision that will determine the future of Grand Canyon National Park and the lands around it.

If you oppose lifting the moratorium on new claims to mine uranium near Grand Canyon National Park, sign this petition to ask the Obama administration to extend the moratorium for another 20 years.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/184/940/359/?z00m=19951811

[gateley]

1. No he shouldn't and I'm going to sign the petition now. Thanks. nt

[golddigger]

2. Hell no!

[Duende azul]

3. The nuke business is dirty all they way from mining to storage.

let's stop it.

[Bluebear]

4. Gee I wonder what he will decide. nt

[Buzz Clik]

7. I predict that his choice will not alter your attitude toward him in the slightest.

If he nixes the mining (and it isn't really his decision), you'll ignore the decision entirely. If he allows the mining to proceed (which has been approved by the state of Arizona), then you'll crap yourself.

[Buzz Clik]

5. The Department of Interior is taking public comments for about a month.

Links for making comments are given here:

http://usparks.about.com/b/2011/02/23/public-comment-uranium-mining-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

Whether or not you're pro-uranium mining, I think you should oppose this. There isn't enough U in the area to impact US production one way or another.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Mining near the Grand Canyon....

... is much different than mining in the Grand Canyon.
That said, there's a very strict line at the borders of our national parks that must serve as garlic to the corporate vampires. If this land in question is part of our national park, the ban must be renewed.

Few understand that the national parks are not "government land". Those acres belong excusively to the collective people of the United States, and corporations have been trying since Yellowstone to gain access to harvest our resourses.

People who advocate timber cutting, mining, or drilling on my land should contact the appropriate industry with a roadmap and easement to their own back yard.

[Buzz Clik]

8. good post.

[Zorra]

9. Fuck no. The Canyon is sacred ground. nt

[Motown_Johnny]

10. if by "Grand Canyon" you mean Rush's butt crack, then yes. By all means

Other than that I am against it.


Gonna go sign petition now, consider it done.


edit to add: I was #16,575 and they are aiming for 20,000 by April 4th

I am going to post this on my Facebook, anyone else out there who can spread the word might want to consider doing so.

[obxhead]

11. NO.

In many parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada you can still see the wagon trails from the migration west. That environment is far to fragile to allow mining.

[grahamhgreen]

12. You have to be intellectually blind or greedy to be pro-nuke at this point.

[Joe the Revelator]

13. You'd have to be short sighted and reactionary to not support nuclear power at this point....

[Motown_Johnny]

14. short sighted? Like not planning on thousands of years of radioactivity?

[crickets]

15. +25,000 (nt)