PETITION: Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon

[MIJ-VI]

Worldwide Campaign to Save the Grand Canyon

http://www.change.org/petitions/worl...e-grand-canyon

...Currently, a mining moratorium is protecting the Grand Canyon. But that ban is going to expire soon.

Mining companies are lining up to destroy the land. If the federal government doesn't renew the mining ban, this is the future we face, according to The Grand Canyon Trust:

Within 5 miles of Grand Canyon National Park, there are now more than 1,100 uranium claims, compared with just 10 in January 2003. The Kaibab National Forest has reported more than 2,100 claims filed in the Tusayan Ranger District; thousands more have been staked on BLM lands north of the Grand Canyon in the Kanab Creek drainage and House Rock Valley.

At this time, the Interior Department is taking public comments on whether they let the moratorium expire or, instead, enact a 20-year mining ban....

[Munjibunga]

As long as it's just uranium, well, OK. Now if it were neodymium ...

[bassrique]

Uranium electricity production has a low carbon footprint. That's good, no? And besides, the GCNP grounds are not in question.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by bassrique

Uranium electricity production has a low carbon footprint. That's good, no? And besides, the GCNP grounds are not in question.

I agree, but in the event of a problem, it has a high radioactivity footprint. In light of the situation in Japan, it's going to be tough to sell the American public on the fact that nuclear energy is safer than fossil fuel energy (which it is).

One study puts the annual number of premature deaths due to fossil fuel energy production at 20,000 in the U.S. alone. That number will be much larger in countries with emerging economies and less stringent environmental laws.

[Gomeztool]

So the claims in question aren't even in the Grand Canyon.

Typical of the Change.org crowd

[ADbassman]

Very misleading. They're not gonna tear up the grand canyon. Even if Grand Canyon National Park were to suddenly "expire" tomorrow, no mining company would touch it for publicity issues.

[IconBasser]

meh, go ahead and mine. I've seen the grand canyon. It wasn't that grand.

[Ziltoid]

PROPAGANDAAAAAA