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"The jury's decision was wrong," environmental activist Chris Shuey howled into his mobile phone during a chat with StockInterview.com last Friday. "It is a shocking example for other mining companies." Shuey, the Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, clearly do not like the recent federal ruling in favor of Texas-based Uranium Resources (OTC BB: Urix). Subsidiary, Hydro Resources Inc. (HRI) For nearly two decades, South West Research andInformation Centre (SRIC) and Chris Shuey have clung a fanatical position: Uranium mining is bad. Federal and local government regulatory panels do not agree, because Mr. Shuey SRIC and voted down every step of the road.

A 6th January, presented by a three-judge panel of the Atomic Safety and approval authority, in Rockville, Maryland shot down Shuey challenges of radiological air emissions. "The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and the judges continue to support mining," Shuey spoke in hisCell. "We continue to legally challenge." For more than eight years since the NRC granted HRI a materials technology license to perform ISL mining at four sites in McKinley County, SRIC has in what is involved to stop the licensing board calls "protracted litigation" to HRI delivery of much-needed uranium for U.S. utilities . The recent decision by the Federal, said, "not HRI operations is hostile to public health and safety."

Other uranium companies in the area was happy about the ASLB presented.After a historical geological report, written by McLemore and Chenoweth in 2003, struck about 588 million pounds of uranium remaining after the field produced 348 million pounds by 2,001th An asset of more than $ 21000000000, and grows more valuable evaluated every month, is certainly a cause for celebration. The latest ruling can to speed up the approval process and development of uranium assets in New Mexico.

"It helps that the regulatory community information about the inaccuracies,and disingenuous to brings approaches the anti-nuclear-quota for the argument, "said Juan Velasquez, Vice President Environmental and Regulatory Affairs for Strathmore Minerals (TSX: STM, Other OTC: STHJF) in a telephone interview from permit office Strathmore in Santa Fe , New Mexico. "Everything that moves these properties closer to production is a good thing for Strathmore, for the environment and for the country as a whole, as we move forward and look towards energyIndependence. William Sheriff, Director of Corporate Development for Energy Metals (TSX: EMC), agreed, "I think the decisions of the NRC (on URI and HRI applications, are very positive, it is just another step towards production of" Dallas. .-based Sheriff is one of the leading developers in the United States considered view. Energy Metals Corp. is also planning to real estate in New Mexico Grants Uranium Belt develop over the next decade. Velasquez, the more optimistic Strathmore's Church wasRock project would move forward, production, added: "The decision gives some faith in those of us who specified that the NRC not wait with common sense in themselves, their decisions."

StockInterview.com requested an opinion from a Santa Fe attorney not involved in the recent case, but who knew the verdict. While the requirement that he not be named in this article, the lawyer said: "It was a very sensible decision, and what you might expect, the decision was scientifically sound.."Chris Pugsley, HRI attorney in Washington, DC-based law firm of Thompson and Simmons, who defended the case echoed the prosecutor feelings and said. "It was a decision on sound technology and extensive industry experience is based, the ruling was a confirmation that ISL mining is environmentally friendly and will be the future of the domestic uranium mining. "Pugsley said:" This was a sound scientific and correct interpretation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's regulations andRequirements. "John DeJoia, Strathmore's Vice President of Technical Services, concluded," I feel very optimistic about the production of uranium in the country and particularly in the Gallup (New Mexico) area. It confirms the original purpose of the NRC. "

These were not the first legal setbacks for SRIC. In November sentenced McKinley County New Mexico Water Board SRIC allegations of ground water, a cause championed by the environmental organization for a decade. TheWater Board criticized the group, writing, "What we find are intolerable rates. The expert from the Southwest Research and Information Center offers a lot of speculation, theories that could never be proved or disproved and headlines of the bloody consequences. This is not science. science demands that we look at the data and come to a conclusion on the evidence presented is based. "They concluded," The mining operation of HRI and proposed by the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission is safe and effective in protecting our ground water. "

In a 20th Submitted in July, the ASLB used stronger language, labeling much SRIC arguments of possible contamination of wells by HRI Crownpoint operations as "insubstantial" and "dishonest." In a separate sixth Submitted in January, described the ASLB a key role SRIC claim as "baseless assertion." It has been one defeat after another for their leadership and SRIC attorney Eric Jantz. His firm, New Mexico EnvironmentalLaw Center, had recently hosted "a special evening with Ted Turner, the billionaire outsider to help us as fundraisers, uranium-mining. On 11 January rejected five commissioners comprising the full commission of the NRC SRIC appeal. She refused to review a petition to the SRIC groundwater case. Strathmore Velasquez said the recent court decisions nullified SRIC challenges: "If you are an environmentalist, to make it ask yourself what you are taken to stop pointseriously. "As the spot price for uranium continues its march to $ 40/pound and higher, the voice SRIC have a new audience or to find a new cause.

ISL mining and "Pristine" Groundwater

According to the World Nuclear Association (WNA), "ISL mining means that achieves the removal of uranium minerals is without major disruptions Floor The WNA says ISL, or in situ leaching as follows:.." Weak acidic or alkaline groundwater with a lot of oxygen injected into itcirculates through a closed underground aquifers, the uranium ore in loose sand holds. The solution with dissolved uranium is then pumped to the surface water treatment plant "After the WNA, broken down over 20 percent of global uranium is planned with ISL uranium method At least four companies to develop ISL operations in New Mexico .. uranium resources (URI ), Strathmore Minerals, Metals and Energy Max Resources (TSX: MXR) URI Strathmore Minerals and Energy Metals.specifically for the development of measures in Church Rock and Crown Point areas. None of the properties are located on the Navajo Reservation.

One of the anti-nuclear movement, the arguments of ISL mining is that the injected water can not be contained. SRIC in the house organ is Voices from the Earth, Mitchell Capitan, a Navajo activist, top billing in the spring 2005 issue given. pumped as a former Mobil Oil lab assistant has made SRIC mysterious Capitan an expert onISL mining. In his interview, Capitan said, "Mobil was doing a pilot project with the in situ leach mining west of Crown Point Worked I was in the lab with the engineers and no matter how hard we we never tried any uranium from the water, abandoned mobile.. . We completed the project. "

Craig Bartels, president of Hydro Resources, whose parent company Uranium Resources pioneered ISL mining in the United States differs with Capitan assessment of Mobil Oil closure. "It iswrong for someone to say mobile shutdown ISL, because they could not contain it. It is also wrong to say that mobile shut down because they could not restore or clean up the water. "Bartels explains what happened:" She ran a pilot plant, including rehabilitation, 1980, in the early years. If the price (of uranium) dramatically decreased, they put so well field and went out of business. "Bartels believes mobile" would be out there today, if the price stayed up. "

Nevertheless,SRIC and Capitan's grassroots Navajo group, ENDAUM (Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining) further argued that ISL mining would contaminate groundwater and the ISL process is faulty or dangerous. Dr. John Fogarty, Chief of Staff of the Indian Health Service Hospital in Crown Point, New Mexico, argued the ad-hoc medical experts, "The mining companies in chemicals injected down into the aquifer, plans next to the town water supply. These chemicals will leach out, or the stripsto provide uranium from the rock into the aquifer is basically a toxic soup. "

Unfortunately, Dr. Fogarty, the chemistry is described in ISL mining. The lixiviant solution is often used in the United States, sodium bicarbonate, or as known in the kitchen, baking powder. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes this process: "The extraction of uranium by means of injection wells, the most common technique for mining this mineral is an injection well is to drill.. Formation with the mineral salts "The EPA describes the steps from the ISL method:

"The process for the extraction of uranium salts:

o injection of a solution, called lixiviant contained in the mineral formation;

o Taking into account a sufficient contact of the lixiviant in the mineral zone;

o Extraction of the nearly saturated lixiviant at the surface;

o The separation of uranium salts from the lixiviant. "

In an interview withworld-renowned nuclear physicist Dr. Fred Begay, who is also Navajo and lives in Los Alamos (New Mexico) area, he described StockInterview.com the chemicals in ISL mining, "What are you pump it in baking soda." We asked Dr. Begay "That's it ? He likened it to work in the kitchen and the procedure was as safe as baking bread. What is water pollution? Begay said, "The uranium is already there." And because the uranium is already there, the ground water has an apriori contamination.

Bartels not agree with Dr. Fogarty reproach. "We hear all the time:" The water is pristine drinking water. "This is not at all correct. The water is already toxic." Bartels carefully explained why the water in question is already damaged goods, "Any place where there are a commercial ore body, that the water does not work, fit to drink. The groundwater is already contaminated. " He pointed out: "There is a huge amount of uranium all through this area,not only in this aquifer, but in the overlying aquifer, that they call the Dakota sandstone. "A total of about £ been scattered 1000000000 uranium in the region before uranium mining began in the 1950s to the comments he made January 11 at the Gallup Independent HRI's had Mark Pellizza out SRIC hypocrisy." It seems that fundraising is a driving force behind their rhetoric ... they completely ignore the health impact of radon gas from the sameUranium ore body, when it produced directly as drinking water - instead, they call this water "pristine," and people not aware of his danger. Why is that? "

Radon gas and ISL Mining

What is the radon released in the breakdown of uranium? "If you have any commercial quantities of uranium, radon is already there," said Bartels. "But we do not say anything. We do not mobilize. We have no influence on them, other than we wanted, and we will not release to theAtmosphere. "

Why has the NRC rule in favor of HRI that ISL mining would not be a threat to public health? Bartels described the process. "We ships use pressurized It is the solution, over and over is included Everything comes to the surface, but not enter the atmosphere, it is a model and simulated estimates of how much radiation dose you.. to publish so that the health of people in the area is not compromised. "

Velasquez wasadamantly asserts SRIC's emissions into the air: "The representations they make regarding radon are simply intolerable and wrong." Few people realize how widespread radon gas is found all over the world. Velasquez added, "You and I always radon, is when we turn over a spade of dirt in our garden, the largest source of radon gas in this country, the agriculture because it is down to the floor No one upset about it..." Heaberlin Scott writes in his widely read essay, a casefor nuclear generated electricity (Battelle Press, 2004), "Since uranium is essentially everywhere on the planet as radon."

Prestigious Strathmore Minerals President David Miller, who served as ISL geological consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency and is a three-term Wyoming legislator believes reducing ISL mining actually radon problem for the Navajos, "removal of uranium and now moving the uranium from the project will lower future radon gasGeneration in the area. "He appealed on the basis of common sense that the Navajos were doing a disservice to their own health:" If the Navajo allow uranium mining on the reservation, then trillions future radon atoms are not formed on the reservation. "

The SRIC panic about the background radiation may have been in vain. In a General Accounting Office report entitled, said radiation protection standards (June 2000), "... we examined 82 studies that generally find little or no signs ofincreased cancer risk from high natural background radiation levels ... Overall, the studies' results are inconclusive but they suggest that when exposed to a few hundred millirem per year and below the cancer risk from radiation can be either very small or nonexistent. " To put this in perspective, by being a chest x-ray in your doctor's office, you exposed 20-40 millirem (mrem) of radiation. Those living in Gallup, New Mexico, the largest city near the Church RockUranium projects would be an annual dose of about 60 mrem. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's annual allowable radiation exposure is 5,000 mrem. By where they live, some continue to survive on this planet, despite exceptionally strong land-based sources of very high radon concentrations. may be a few places in Europe population of 5000 mrem per year. In Iran, Sudan and Brazil, it could be up to 3800 mrem per year. Some places in India, the locals with dose up to 1500mrem per year.

Radon studies have been conducted. The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study titled "Residential radon exposure and lung cancer in Sweden" (20 January 1994). The scientific team studied radon in homes as a major source of exposure to ionizing radiation. The study concluded, "In general takes the radon concentration when a window is kept open. A window ajar, an exchange of 10 to 30 cubic meters of air per hour at providingWind speed of 3m per second. This may be two fifty-eight times the normal air exchange and thus can reduce radon concentration of 50 to 70 percent. "

The same principle applies to uranium mining. The industry has been using for decades fans to vent radon gas, and increase the safety of their workers.

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