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Esther Gesick
From: Rob Masden
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 5:20 PM
To: Esther Gesick
Subject: FW: Uranium Mining
From: PBell96204@aol.com [mailto:PBell96204@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:46 PM
To: Rob Masden
Subject: Uranium Mining
Please help protect our State,Communities,and Water from Uranium Mining.
We attended a meeting in our Community the other night and could not believe what we were hearing.
Our family has lived in the Nunn Community Area all of our lives and a fourth generation. It is beautiful grasslands and a
dryland farming/ranching community. We have a lot of wild life,beautiful scenery,and even though more and more
people have moved to the area, it is a calm,peaceful environment.
Now we learn that a young Canadian Company has purchased a company in Denver,and has taken over a project of doing
In-situ Leach Mining for uranium west and northwest of Nunn on a beautiful ridge that runs between the communities of
Wellington,Colorado and Nunn. This mining injects altered water into the ground near a deposit and extracts the mineral
as well as various other metals such as toxic selenium,arsenic,molybdenum,and other radioactive elements into the
ground water aquifer.
This is not a remote area;but right in the middle of a fast-growing area with a growing population,lots of wild life,and
lots of domestic animals. This process will affect the land,plants,animals,insects,people,as well as all of the water
used in this area,not to mention what is put into the air we breathe. You think it just affects our area? Think again. This
affects the whole Front Range of Colorado including he bigger cities of Greeley,Ft.Collins,Boulder,Denver,all the way
east to Sterling,and all the way south to Pueblo. This is a huge aquifer they want to pollute. This water is used all across
the Front Range. All of these major cities are also down wind of this project.
This is all about one company making money. What about the livelihood of the thousands of people already here? Where
are we supposed to go when our water and air is polluted? This company can leave the taxpayers to clean up the mess if
things do not go safely as planned,or if they go broke,as has already happened in some of these type of project areas.
How can the beautiful area be restored to its original beauty? The water can never be restored. In this time of water
shortages,protecting the environment,global warming,and Earth Day,please don't let this happen.
I leave you with a quote from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy. "In every deliberation we must consider the
impact of our decision on the next seven generations." Surely,we are as intelligent as they were. Stop this now before
life,as we in Colorado know it,is totally mined forever.
Sincerely,
Peggy J. Bellmore
13480 W.C.Rd. 100
Nunn,CO 80648
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