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Home My WebLink About20080318.tiff Esther Gesick From: Esther Gesick Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:05 AM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: our reputation as a fine place to live is going down Original Message From: Bill Jerke Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:44 PM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: our reputation as a fine place to live is going down Original Message From: Robin Davis [mailto:robin@mustanghollow.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3 :25 PM To: Phillip Brewer; William Garcia; Bill Jerke; Trevor Jiricek; Dave Long; Rob Masden; Douglas Rademacher; paul wood Subject: our reputation as a fine place to live is going down This is a quote from a gentleman in NJ who WAS considering relocating to Northern Colorado. The Realtor's must disclose the proximity to a potential health hazard. Uranium mining Webmaster <webmaster@nunnglow.info> wrote: Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12 :54:25 -0700 From: Webmaster <webmaster@nunnglow.info> To: Robin Davis <robin@mustanghollow.com> Subject: [Fwd: Lists subscription] Statement from Brian Ritz (New Jersey) : How did you hear about us? Comments? = My realtor informed me about the situation when I called from NJ to inquire about land in Nunn. I am going to wait and see what happens first now. I am not going to put my family in harms way if there is even the slightest chance the mining gets the go ahead 2008-0318 1 ( c7r✓vu ifEATno /-.2P-zct PL/g6R Esther Gesick From: Bill Jerke Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:54 AM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: Businesses are already leaving Original Message From: Robin Davis [mailto:robin®mustanghollow.com] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:51 AM To: Nate Bowen; Phillip Brewer; William Garcia; Bill Jerke; Trevor Jiricek; Dave Long; Rob Masden; Douglas Rademacher; paul wood Subject: Businesses are already leaving Here is an article of interest I wish we could leave too, but we are essentially trapped. http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dl1/article?AID=/20080117/UPDATES01/80117027 Robin Davis www.mustanghollow.com PE/Y99 The Coloradoan - www.coloradoan.com - Ft. Collins, CO. Page 1 of 2 Welcome to The Coloradoan Ft. Collins,CO. Customer Service: Subscribe Now I coloradoan.com Weather Calendar Jobs Cars Homes Apartments Shopping Classi coloradoan.com Bringing Fort Collins Home Search Northern Colorado: All a I l`�' ADVERTISEMENT• Home News RSS Feeds ® American.. ` _ _ _ Furnitureware ouBC Entertainment j t NoCoMoms.com Hundreds of In-Stock Sofas I Loveland Connection Animal sanctuary wants to move away from uraniu Windsor Beacon BY KEVIN DUGGAN KevinDuggan@coloradoan.com NoCoDataMine Communities The prospect of uranium mining coming to its neighborhood is prompting a Weld County al Directories operations. Health Denkai Animal Sanctuary founder and director Floss Blackburn announced Thursday the r Printing Press near Grover and move there before uranium mining begins near its current location in Carr Advertising Blackburn said the sanctuary hopes to raise$80,000 in the next 30 days for the initial payr Customer Service and moving the sanctuary would cost about$500,000. Email Denkai was considering a move from in its current site when its two-year lease on the prop Newsletter Powertech (USA) plans to extract uranium ore from under the prairie south of Carr pushed home, she said. •ADVERTISEMENT Blackburn said she's worried contamination from the mining process could affect the sanct 1 "There's no reason to put ourselves at risk or these animals," she said. merle Pete Webb, a spokesman for Powertech, said the sanctuary's fears are "unfounded." Pow( Centennial project and its impact on groundwater with sanctuary operators, but have not bi ',ADVERTISEMENT 14:=iti( .-:r rr�-; STORYCHAT Cr) Post a Comm not • `.r- This article does not have any comments associated with it Originally published January 17, 2008 Print this article Cr2 E-mail this to a friend Subscribe Now Contact Us I Subscribe I Place an ad Copyright©2008 The Fort Collins Coloradoan. a i USA cu All rights reserved. GF �'1 yRy® Users of this site agree to the GANNI► .COm Terms of Service and Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights (Terms updated March 2007) http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbes.dll/article?AID=/20080117/UPDATES01/80117027 1/22/2008 Esther Gesick From: Bill Jerke Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:19 PM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: health impacts of uranium Original Message From: Robin Davis [mailto:robin@mustanghollow.com] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:10 PM To: Me Subject: health impacts of uranium Please help us support the water quality protection bill (HB 1161) . See the attached article on more negative health impacts of uranium: http://politicsnpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/uranium-harmful-another-study/ /a28-wog 1 li Uranium harmful: another study « Politics'n'Poetry Page 1 of 6 Politics'n'Poetry January 18, 2008 Uranium harmful: another study Filed under: Healthcare, Nuclear Power, Uranium, health, mining, nuclear—politicsnpoetry @ 4:06 pm Folks may be interested in this technical saner looking at the question of whether uranium can act as an endocrine disruptor. Conclusion of 34 page study: Our data supports the conclusion that uranium is an endocrine disrupting chemical and populations exposed to environmental uranium should be followed for increased risk of fertility problems and reproductive cancers. But that doesn't matter to those who want more,more, more. In fact, with the multinational medical corporations now into uranium, it seems to me they are creating the need for their medical equipment. That's an ideal situation, for a corporation. GE Plans Partnerships With Uranium Miners for Nuclear(U date4 By Lars Paulsson Jan. 17 (Bloomberg)—General Electric Co., the world's biggest maker of power- generation equipment, plans to form partnerships with uranium companies to develop its nuclear business and improve access to the fuel that runs reactors. GE's atomic unit is holding talks with"several miners, millers and converters" to find partners after agreeing last year to use a new technology from Australia's Silex Systems Ltd. to expand into fuel enrichment, said Andrew White, chief executive officer of GE Nuclear in Wilmington,North Carolina. "We're in serious conversations, and I think we will do something in the first half of this year,"White said today in an interview in London. He wouldn't name the companies, citing confidentiality agreements. "Obviously, if we're going into enrichment, we need the feedstock." General Electric, competing with companies including Areva SA, the world's biggest builder of reactors, and Toshiba Corp.'s Westinghouse Electric Co., is developing its nuclear business into a more integrated company with reactors, servicing and fuel supply, to some extent minoring France's Areva. "Any good customer we're willing to get into bed with," said Peter Farmer, chief executive officer of Denison Mines Corp., a Toronto-based uranium miner, who wouldn't say whether his company is in specific discussions. "In our case, it just makes sense to offset some of the risk of going into a new mine." Potential Partners http://politicsnpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/uranium-harmful-another-study/ 1/22/2008 Uranium harmful: another study« Politics'n'Poetry Page 2 of 6 General Electric may be talking with Cameco Corp., Areva or ConverDyn, the only uranium converter in the U.S., Max Layton, an analyst with Macquarie Bank Ltd. in London, said today in a telephone interview. They are the main Western producers, he said. Converters refine the uranium by turning it into a gas before it's enriched. No Comments » No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Name(required) Mail(will not be published)(required) Website Submit Comment • Pages o About Me • Meta o Login o Entries RSS o Comments RSS o WordPress.com • Search • http://politicsnpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/uranium-harmful-another-study/ 1/22/2008 Esther Gesick From: Esther Gesick Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:12 AM To: 'triciahowley@yahoo.com' Subject: FW: Stop Uranium Mining in CO Attachments: LEUraniumEmail.doc .EUraniumEmail.doc (57 KB) Ms. Howley, Please see the attached response. Esther E. Gesick Deputy Clerk to the Board 915 10th Street Greeley, CO 80631 (970) 356-4000 X4226 (970) 352-0242 (fax) Original Message From: Bill Jerke Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:52 AM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: Stop Uranium Mining in CO Original Message From: Tricia Howley [mailto:triciahowley®yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:43 PM To: Bill Jerke Subject: Stop Uranium Mining in CO Dear Mr. Jerke: I am very concerned about the potentially severe impacts the proposed uranium mine near Nunn, Colorado will have on our land, water, and health. Please do everything in your power to stop this project. -Tricia Howley, a Fort Collins resident dryytou ro /-r22"v14)dG 1 PLi'ij Esther Gesick From: Esther Gesick Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:12 AM To: 'chowley@markination.com' Subject: FW: A Call To Action Attachments: LEUraniumEmail.doc .EUraniumEmail.doc (57 KB) Mr. Howley, Please see the attached response. Esther E. Gesick Deputy Clerk to the Board 915 10th Street Greeley, CO 80631 (970)356-4000 X4226 (970)352-0242 (fax) Original Message From: Bill Jerke Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:53 AM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: A Call To Action Original Message From: Chris Howley [mailto:chowley@markination.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:53 PM To: chowley@markination.com Subject: A Call To Action As an elected representative of the people of the state of Colorado, you are in a position to take a stand on an issue that is very important to me, my family, my friends and my neighbors - namely, the mining of uranium near Nunn. I strongly urge you to do everything in your power to support the efforts of Reps. Randy Fischer and John Kefalas, as well as Sens. Bob Bacon and Steve Johnson to strengthen mining regulations in our state. Please follow their lead by putting politics aside to close serious gaps in commercial accountability and our current mining laws. With the very real reasonable doubt that exists about the safety of the uranium mining techniques being proposed for the site near Nunn, your action must be swift and decisive and conservative in favor of prudent exercise of regulatory powers to ensure public safety. A matter such as this is no place to level ideological arguments in favor of commerce over the welfare of our citizenry. Please consider that your children, my children and all of the future generations of Northern Coloradans are counting on you to stand up and say that individual property rights of surface holders and mineral holders cannot supersede our sovereign right to protect our families, water, food and air from the threats and very reasonable doubts inherent in open pit and in-situ uranium mining. Please do everything you can to actively support: HB08-1161 HB08-1165 Thank you for your diligent attention to this vital issue. 1 Respectfully, Chris Howley 2 Esther Gesick From: Esther Gesick Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:11 AM To: 'guard1234@hotmail.com' Subject: FW: Land Letter--MINING: Colo. activist takes on uranium resurgence] Attachments: LEUraniumEmail.doc .EUraniumEmail.doc (57 KB) Mr. Williams, Please see the attached response. Esther E. Gesick Deputy Clerk to the Board 915 10th Street Greeley, CO 80631 (970)356-4000 X4226 (970)352-0242 (fax) Original Message From: Bill Jerke Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:21 PM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: Land Letter -- MINING: Colo. activist takes on uranium resurgence] Original Message From: howard williams (mailto:guard1234@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:41 PM To: avillegas@greeleytribune.com; Bill Jerke; bmanvel@fcgov.com; dbrown@fcgov.com; dhutchinson@fcgov.com; don.marostica.house@state.co.us; droy@fcgov.com; Jerry Sonnenberg; Kevin Lundberg; 1poppaw@fcgov.com; pdemilt@aol.com; Rob Masden; Scott Renfroe; William Garcia; wtroxell@fcgov.com; megcorwin@salazar.senate.gov Subject: FW: Land Letter -- MINING: Colo. activist takes on uranium resurgence] The stats on the cancer rates the first letter from Junction is scary all by itself, further proof that that mine was to close to people. You'd think that we'd learn our lesson and mine it in the boon docks ,or buy it from Australia. > CC: email archive@nunnglow.info > From: jladolph@frii.com > Subject: Land Letter -- MINING: Colo. activist takes on uranium resurgence] > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23 :39:50 -0700 > To: lindajeanturner@msn.com >• Uranium is the most talked about EVER right now. >• Begin forwarded message:> > > > > "For Madi, with love. " > > > > Those four simple words were written across the top of Janet > > Johnson's speech before the Mesa County commissioners -- a personal > > reminder to her of why it is so important to stop the reopening of > > an underground uranium mine there. > > > > "Everything I do, I do it for Madi, " Johnson said, referring to her > > 4-year old granddaughter, who was diagnosed with stage four cancer > > in April 2004. 1 > > > > Original Message > > Subject: Land Letter -- MINING: Colo. activist takes on uranium > > resurgence > > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:08:50 -0800 > > From: Mall, Amy <amall@nrdc.org> > > To: Travis Stills <stills@frontier.net>, Brad Bartlett > > <brad.bartlett@frontier.net> > > > > *This Land Letter story was sent to you by: *amall@nrdc.org > > > > *Personal message: * > > > > Land Letter <http://www.landletter.com> > > An E&E Publishing Service > > > > > > MINING: Colo. activist takes on uranium resurgence (Thursday, > > January 17, 2008) > >> > > > Eryn Gable, special to /Land Letter/ > > > > GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- > > > > The little girl finished treatment in the summer of 2005 and is now > > labeled a "survivor of childhood cancer, " but it is concern for her > > granddaughter and others like her that drives Johnson to oppose > > uranium mining. Johnson has witnessed many people in her life > > struggle with cancer and diseases -- her brother, her uncle, her > > cousin, her friends, her high school classmates and their children. > > Johnson herself has leukemia. > > > > While there is no definitive link between these diseases and > > uranium mining, Johnson is convinced that the mines and their waste > > played some role. Indeed, studies in the 1970s showed that the > > incidence of cleft lip and palate was almost twice as high in the > > Grand Junction area as for the rest of Colorado, the birth rate was > > significantly lower, and the death rate from congenital anomalies > > was 50 percent higher. > > > > A lifelong Colorado resident, Johnson grew up in Grand Junction in > > the 1950s and '60s, when uranium ruled the town. Grand Junction > > even used to have a Miss Uranium pageant, in which the winner > > received her very own truckload of uranium ore. > > > > It was not a culture Johnson questioned or thought much about at > > the time, despite the jokes about the "glowing" girls of Grand > > Junction. > > > > "It was a really wonderful thing, as I understood as a child, > > because they were finding out that they could use the radioactivity > > to cure cancer, to shrink tumors . . . so people were really > > welcoming of it. I grew up with a good attitude about uranium. It > > had wonderful possibilities, " Johnson said in an interview with / > > Land Letter/ yesterday. > > > > But at her 10th high school reunion, Johnson became concerned when > > she learned that many of her former classmates had children with > > disabilities or cancer. By her 20th reunion, many of her classmates > > themselves had cancer. > > > > "As life went on, it was really more and more obvious all the time > > that our class had been really hit by a lot of cancers. There are > > to date, a lot of them dead of cancer, " Johnson said. > > > > One possible reason? The dirt beneath Grand Junction High School, > > like many other homes and buildings in Grand Junction, included 2 > > uranium tailings -- the sandy debris left over from mining > > operations. Although the tailings were known to contain low levels > > of radiation, at the time, the Atomic Energy Commission believed > > they didn't pose a public health or safety hazard. > > > > Contractors used the tailings as a cheap source of landfill and > > even mixed it with concrete, using the tailings in the construction > > of homes, schools, commercial buildings, a shopping mall, an > > airfield and sidewalks. > > > > "They were even allowing people to go and pick up a load of uranium > > tailings, bring them home and they were making patios with them, " > > Johnson said. > > > > This legacy of the last uranium boom is something she doesn't want > > to see happen again. > > > > "Everybody lives downwind, everybody lives downstream from > > something, and I really feel that morally we have an obligation to > > that, and I think that morally we have an obligation to protect our > > children and not to be just blatantly putting them at health risk. > > It's amazing to me how people have really forgotten what can > > happen, " said Johnson, who works as a campus minister at Mesa State > > College. > >> > > > Renewed interest in uranium mining > > > > The uranium boom has been driven by renewed interest in nuclear > > power as a possible answer to global warming. Prices reached as > > high as $138 a pound last year and now stand around $90 a pound. > > > > Toronto, Canada-based Energy Fuels wants to reopen two underground > > uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau and could begin mining later > > this year. Mesa County has already given the company the go-ahead > > to move forward with its plans. > > > > Aside from her general concerns about the health effects of uranium > > mining and uranium waste, Johnson is concerned about the steep, > > narrow gravel road the company plans to use to transport uranium > > ore. John Brown Road features perilous drop-offs and hairpin turns > > as it runs alongside the Dolores River. To Johnson, it is an > > accident waiting to happen. > > > > While Energy Fuels has a plan in place to deal with an accident, > > Johnson worries that the company will not be able to clean up all > > the hazardous material before it falls into the river below or > > drifts into the air. > > > > "They're taking great pains to try to comply, but my feeling is > > that our county commissioners and we as citizens have to take great > > pains to protect ourselves, too, and so we don't let them go across > > awful roads, " Johnson said. >• > At first, Johnson was a lone voice speaking out against the mines. > > When Johnson attended a Mesa County Planning Commission meeting in > > November, she was the only one there who opposed the mine. > > > > "Everyone in the room was really silent about what they were doing. > > They had spent an hour and a half talking about a dog kennel close > > to a housing area out by Palisade, and the whole uranium mine thing > > was just sailing right through, " Johnson said. > > > > "So I stood up that night and I thought, 'Well, if nobody's going to > > talk, I'm going to talk. ' I'm going to at least say, 'I don't like > > this, '" she added. > > > > After that meeting, Johnson decided to try to organize other 3 > > activists in the community to challenge the mines' reopening. The > > next month, at a meeting of the Mesa County commissioners, the > > opposition to the mines numbered in the double digits. > > Nevertheless, the commissioners voted to back the plan, hoping that > > it would bring jobs to the area. > > > > With the mines all but set to move forward, Johnson's hope is that > > she can help make people more aware of the dangers surrounding > > uranium mining, milling and processing. > > > > Grand Junction is a wonderful place to live, but the town has yet > > to really deal with the legacy of uranium, Johnson said. > > > > "Would you want to come here? Would you want to raise children > > here? I don't know, " she said. "I'm sure it makes us look not so > > good, but what makes us look worse is if we don't acknowledge and > > deal with it better and learn from our past mistakes. " > > > > /Gable is an independent energy and environmental writer in > > Woodland Park, Colo./> > > > > > Want to read more stories like this? > > > > *Click here <http://www.eenews.net/trial/>* to start a free trial > > to E&E -- the best way to track policy and markets.> > > > > > About Land Letter > > > > Land Letter is written and produced by the staff of E&E Publishing, > > LLC. For more than 20 years, Land Letter has been the publication > > professionals have turned to for objective, accurate coverage of > > natural resource policy issues. From lawsuits over national forest > > management, to water resource allocation in the West, Land Letter > > is the source all sides turn to for clear, timely, objective > > information. 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