Archive for KLPW – Uranium Mining Upstream from Kerr Lake
Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on July 23, 2013
KLPW has previously brought the Virginia Uranium mining issue to KLPW members and was sent this first seen media report on a new research
report authorized by the Roanoke River Basin Association (RRBA).RRBA has sent a full copy of the 25-page report and KLPW will be glad to send you your copy via email. Just
send a request to info@kerrlakeparkwatch.org or you may visit www.rrba.org.
FROM AN ONLINE NEWS REPORT FROM THE NEWS ADVANCE & “GO DAN RIVER“
BY MARY BETH JACKSON
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on February 22, 2013
Radio advertising AGAINST and now FOR allowing Uranium mining in Virginia is blaring out all over the state as forces on
both sides refuse to give in on whether Governor Bob McDonnell should sidestep the Virginia legislature and move to allow mining the radioactive material at Coles Hill.
KLPW is watching the issue intensely because of the huge impact such mining could potentially have on the John H Kerr Reservoir and ultimately on lake and park users. Within the last few
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on February 2, 2013
Kerr Lake Park Watch is refraining from rejoicing about a Virginia State Senate panel dumping legislation to lift the ban on Uranium mining at Coles
Hill near Chatham, Virginia. “The problem is that while everyone is celebrating about that Senate panel saying no, politics has shifted the decision and maybe even the power to lift the Uranium
mining ban in Virginia to the Governor,” said Kerr Lake Park Watch Public Affairs Lead, Frank Timberlake.
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on January 15, 2013
A creek near flood stage in Piedmont Virginia near a proposed Uranium mining site today brought an emphatic and impassioned demand for the US Army
Corps of Engineers to take a position on proposed Uranium mining upstream from Kerr Lake. That request came Roanoke River Basin Association leader, Gene Addesso, Vice
President and acting President, as he told the group on the weekly meeting/call of the USACE Wilmington District Water Management Stakeholders that previous contact with the Corps has
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Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on August 9, 2011
Virginia Uranium Offers Traveling Mobile Exhibit
VIRGINIA URANIUM MINING COMPANY TAKES PROMOTION & PITCH ON THE ROAD…From The Chatham News and posted
by KLPW
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Virginia Uranium Inc. has developed a traveling mobile exhibit to share
information with the public about plans to mine and mill a 119 million pound
uranium deposit at Coles Hill in northeastern Pittsylvania County.
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