When the Bush administration was pushing for uranium mining just outside the Grand Canyon, far sighted folks in Congress moved quickly to protect the land - placing one million acres around the canyon off limits.
Uranium mining would severely jeopardize the ecology of the canyon. Between the blasting to build the mine and the toxic waste being dumped into the waterways, it would wreck one of the earth's greatest environmental treasures.
What's shocking is that Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar is allowing the Bureau of Land Management to move forward with Bush-era plans to mine just outside the canyon.
Take a minute right now, and tell Sec. Salazar to put the breaks on this plan:
http://www.environmental-action.org/no-mining-near-grand-canyon? id4=ES
In this new Administration based on hope and change, and where the President has pledge to be a friend to the environment, we're shocked to see the new Sec. of the Interior clinging to the ways of the past.
We believe with a loud enough voice, we can help stop this plan, so please send Salazar a message today asking him to halt this move and keep the Grand Canyon pristine:
http://www.environmental-action.org/no-mining-near-grand-canyon? id4=ES
Then help out further by passing this message along to your friends and family - and thanks for your work!
Sincerely,
Dan Stafford
Environmental Action Organizer
DanS@environmental-action.org
http://www.environmental-action.org
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The fears about uranium mining and exploration in the Grand Canyon area are groundless, a fact that doesn't seem to bother its 'environmentalist' nay-sayers.
For more info, see http://public.dirxploration.fastmail.us/.
Note that in excess of 40% of the uranium energy resources of the US are contained in the area. For those who are concerned about global warming, seeking arbitrarily to make this area off limits to uranium production is to cut off your own nose to spite your face.
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