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Home My WebLink About20073469.tiff Esther Gesick From: Esther Gesick Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:51 AM To: 'nford@fordresearchgroup.com' Subject: FW: uranium mining Attachments: LEUraniumEmail.doc I —i .EUraniumEmail.doc (57 KB) Ms. Ford, 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: Vicky Sprague Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:29 AM To: CTB Subject: FW: uranium mining Vicky Sprague, Office Manager Board of Weld County Commissioners 915 10th Street, 3rd Floor P. O. Box 758 Greeley CO 80632 Telephone: 970-336-7204 Fax: 970-352-0242 vsprague@co.weld.co.us Original Message From: Nancy Ford [mailto:nford@fordresearchgroup.com] Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:58 AM To: Vicky Sprague Subject: uranium mining To the Board of Weld County Commissioners: I am sending this email to strongly encourage you to stop all plans for uranium mining in Weld County to the best of your ability. I believe there is no possible way uranium can be mined without polluting the groundwater, and causing major health and safety issues for people and animals. The facts are out there. If this goes through, I believe it will have serious consequences for residents, Weld County, and the State of Colorado. Yours truly, nau. no //-/9-a00 7 i yo - r`i&ei Nancy Ford 1723 Deweese Street Fort Collins, CO 80526 2 Esther Gesick From: Esther Gesick Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:47 AM To: 'alexisdesign6644@gmail.com' Subject: FW: Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination Attachments: LEUraniumEmail.doc .EUraniumEmail.doc (57 KB) Please see the attached. 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, November 12, 2007 3 :36 PM To: Esther Gesick Subject: FW: Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination Original Message From: robin@mustanghollow.com [mailto:robin@mustanghollow.com] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:57 AM To: menunn Cc: Allison Berry; Bob Bacon; Borodkin; Phillip Brewer; Claire Levy; curry; egesisk@co.weld.co.us; ERic Eidsness; fischer; gallegos; William Garcia; gardner; Gibbs; Governor Ritter; green; hodge; Bill Jerke; John Kefalas; Kevin Lundberg; Dave Long; looper; Loretta Pineda; marsha looper; Rob Masden; McFayden; mckinley; menunn; Merrifield; paul wood; Primavera; Douglas Rademacher; Rep Randy Fischer; Representative Steve Johnson; Rice; rose; Senator Scott Rent roe; Smwal; solano; Sonenberg; Steve Tarlton; Trevor Jiricek; Vaad Subject: Fw: Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination Forwarded Message ---- From: Alexis Hmielak <alexisdesign6644@gmail.com> To: jimomara@comcast.net; Aileen Hanson <poniesareit@msn.com>; Ami Wangeline <ami@nunnglow.com>; Jackie Adolph <jladolph@frii.com>; Jeff Parsons <jeff@nunnglow.info>; Lilias Jarding <liliasj@hotmail.com>; Loretta Bailey <baileyloretta@msn.com>; Marina Mayer <marina.mayer@nunnglow.info>; Robin Davis <robin@mustanghollow.com>; Bette Cantor <penelope99@comcast.net>; Brian Farnsworth <brian.farnsworth@yahoo.com>; Jay Davis <jay@mustanghollow.com>; Jim Woodward <jbw@frii.com> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:04:52 PM Subject: Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination Interesting article - Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination - Tribal officials ask Congress for $500 million to deal with wastes left by mining for bombs, nuclear power plants. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-navajo24oct24, 1,6858582 .story? coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=l&cset=true t &Mad)/iAtAACNO ii-19 •04.o77 tot Alexis Hmielak "YOU must BE the change you wish to see in the world. . . .Mahatma Ghandi 2 Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination- Los Angeles Times Page 1 of 3 LAT Home I My LATimes I Print Edition I All Sections Jo ios Angeles Mmes National You are here: LAT Home> National News National Navajos seek funds to clear uranium » Education » Environment contamination » Politics » Science Tribal officials ask Congress for$500 million to deal with wastes left by mining for bombs, nuclear power plants. News By Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 24,2007 California I Local National WASHINGTON -- Navajo tribal officials asked Congress on Tuesday for at least$500 World million to finish cleaning up lingering contamination on the Navajo reservation in the Entertainment American Southwest from Cold War-era uranium mining, an industry nurtured by its Business only customer until 1971: the United States government. Sports Politics The tribe also sought a moratorium on new mining in Navajo country,which extends Science beyond the formal reservation borders into New Mexico, until environmental damage Environment from the last round is repaired. Opinion Columnists The requests came at a hearing of the House Print Edition Tege Nos Pos Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, marked j+ 4 '"- pr ShogF by angry exchanges between the members and officials Calendarlive from five federal agencies with varying degrees of Travel �$$,�•s �lstH'r responsibility for protecting Navajo health and the Magazine " $k Red*go,Valley environment. Home&Garden GRAPHIC Health Cold War legacy Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman(D-Beverly Hills) Food +1 click to enlarge instructed the agencies --the Environmental Protection Autos Agency, the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Books .� - N; Regulatory Commission, the Indian Health Service and the Image e (j Bureau of Indian Affairs--to return in December with a list Arts&Culture or • of the money and authority they need to finally finish the Photography • 1k job. Blogs Obituaries PDF "It's been a bipartisan failure for over 40 years,"Waxman Crossword, Sudoku Spread of radioactivity said. "It's also a modern American tragedy." All Sections (Acrobat file) Corrections Waxman scheduled the hearing in response to a Los http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-navajo24oct24,1,6858582.story?c... 11/13/2007 Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination- Los Angeles Times Page 2 of 3 Buy, Sell & More Angeles Times series, published last year, detailing the Related Stories effects of mine waste on Navajos who built their homes Jobs - Navajos'desert cleanup with it, played in it and regularly drank toxic water for Cars no more than a mirage decades. Exposure continues today, as cleanup efforts Real Estate -Oases in Navajo desert remain fitful and incomplete. contained'a witch's brew' Apartments Personals The nation's largest tribal homeland, encompassing parts Deals at Local Stores Specials of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, contains about 1,000 Coupons - Blighted Homeland abandoned uranium mines and four old processing mills. Newspaper Ads From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were blasted from Navajo soil, nearly all of it for nuclear bombs. Place an Ad After 1971, utilities also bought uranium for nuclear power plants. In the Newspaper The mine operators often left behind open tunnels, shafts and piles of radioactive Online waste. Federal inspectors knew of the hazards but seldom intervened. Meanwhile, Navajo cancer rates doubled and certain birth defects increased. Settings & Services Tuesday's hearing came almost 14 years after the House Natural Resources Log Out Committee heard a plea from the tribe's frustrated environment director for"speedy, Update Profile thorough and permanent remediation of all sites." E-mail Newsletters Personalized News Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.)called on agencies to "focus and accelerate clean-up J RSS Feeds efforts,"capping the 40 most dangerous open mines, limiting groundwater Help contamination and conducting human-health surveys. Contact Us L.A.Times Archives Some House members were visibly displeased by some of the responses to their Reprint Requests questions. When EPA Regional Administrator Wayne Nastri said he needed "time"to protect a Navajo community from a radioactive waste pile abandoned 25 years ago, Home Delivery Rep. Elijah E. Cummings(D-Md.)snapped: "Time passes, Mr. Nastri. People get sick. They get bone cancer, they get leukemia while we wait." Customer Support Subscribe Rep. Tom Udall (D-N.M.)asked BM Director Jerry Gidner if he believed that the United States had fulfilled its pledge to protect the Navajos'welfare. "That's hard to say," Gidner answered. "Hard to say?" Udall said. "I would think that you'd be outraged." judy.pasternak@latimes.com Save/Share G r19 © Y! H California and the world.Get The Times from$1.35 a week.Subscribe now. Business class View our readers'photos of . etiquette L.A.Landmarks and share + An expert helps those adrift your own at Your Scene. 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