Today is Earth Day and given the overwhelming opposition to the uranium exploration now occurring across New Brunswick, it is an good time for Premier Shawn Graham to signal that he and his government take our environment seriously.
The public has spoken: benefits from uranium mining are not worth the hazards and potential hazards that come with it.
A moratorium on uranium exploration and mining, as exists in Nova Scotia, is what the province requires.
Yet to date the premier and government downplay the likelihood of a mine ever being developed and assure us they would never allow environmental harm, but have not been able to give a logical explanation of why they are nevertheless allowing exploration to proceed, including in watersheds. If there is little to no possibility of mining, why the exploration? Surely they are not just leading the mining companies on in some kind of bad joke.
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/274474
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