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TTC and uranium mining! I triple dog dare ya to read this one!
The solid message of Jesus Christ was that we should love our neighbor as ourselves!
I received this week a notice from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality(TCEQ) that the uranium mining company exploring for uranium in Goliad has filed an application and that application is complete. From the wording in the notice TCEQ will approve the application.
"UEC has requested that a portion of the aquifer be designated as an exempt aquifer. The requested exemption would apply from a depth of from 45 to 404 feet." What is an "exempted aquifer? According to this notice, "An aquifer or portion of any aquifer can be designated as an exempted aquifer if it does not currently serve as a source of drinking water for human consumption..."
Am I missing something here? Hasn't water from 45 to 405 feet been a source of drinking water for area families for several generations? Or perhaps does UEC and TCEQ want us all to believe those families don't exist?
"The Executive Director has made a preliminary decision that this permit, if issued, meets all the statutory and regulatory requirements..." Oops! Did I miss something here? Didn't we just read that the aquifer must not be a source of human drinking water?
When greed for money blinds those who sign uranium leases to the 100% failure rate of the uranium mining industry to clean up after themselves this is not in the spirit Christ was trying to promote. Worse yet, when those mining representatives have been caught in lies over and over and people still lease, this is the worst kind of evil!
I have a word for those who, for greed, would endanger their neighbor and his property! One day you'll have to face your maker! "because for every matter there is a time and judgment. Though the misery of man increases greatly." Ecc. 8:6
I found it strangely ironic after re-reading Sherilyn Arnacke's guest editorial defending uranium mining in Goliad County that when her own homestead in Victoria County was threatened by the TransTexas Corridor(TTC) she and her husband showed up at a meeting in Victoria to oppose it.
How odd that the TTC issue is so much like the uranium mining issue! Less than 1% support uranium mining and that fact was made obvious at the TCEQ meeting in Goliad! TCEQ, however, feels just fine about granting the mining permit as if we do not exist! Clearly 99% of the public in Texas oppose the TTC and yet, in spite of overwhelming public opposition, TxDot keeps trudging on as if we do not exist!
We've done everything our civics lessons said we could do! We've written letters to our elected officials, letters to the editor, assembled peaceably and attended meetings to oppose the project. Clearly the opposition to both the TTC and uranium mining is overwhelming but this evil proceeds! "because the sentence against evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil!" Ecc. 8:11
In spite of the will of the vast majority of the people they, TCEQ, TxDot and the uranium miners, are doing what they want because it's in the power of their hands to do so! "Woe to those who devise iniquity, and who work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it because it is in the power of their hand! They covet fields and take them by violence, also houses and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house! A man and his inheritance." Micah 2:1-2
When I post this blog there will always be some sociopath, as described above in red, who'll whine about facts and data in an effort to justify the rape of our freedom, our property and our lives in the name of greed! The facts are that in Texas the uranium mining industry has a 100% failure rate for restoring the property they've damaged. The TCEQ has that same failure rate at protecting Texas property owners. This is documented and undeniable!
I don't want to hear any garbage about me supporting nuclear power but opposing uranium mining! The fact is that Generation III nuclear
power is safe. I'd happily live in a lean-to on the reactor building for a year if the sociopaths who defend uranium mining will drink John Caldwell's water for a year! Why should Texas allow uranium mining in a drinking water aquifer when uranium mining is done safely, far from civilization in Canada and Australia?
The people of this area, those whose land has already been damaged, are being backed into a corner! There seems to be no escape! No remedy! Never back someone into a corner! THAT'S when someone gets hurt! I've got a bad feeling about this! The majority of the people are being ignored in favor of lining the pockets of a miniscule minority! I spoke with the authorities about this growing resentment this week! I fear this will get down right nasty! That's usually what happens when the might of right is ignored!
Are we really loving our neighbor or loving the jingle in our pockets?
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posted by
KennethSchustereit
on Jun 24, 2008 at 08:59 PM
Bless your sick pea-pickin' heart you just keep talking around the facts of the matter! You support mining uranium in a drinking water aquifer where exploration alone has already destroyed the quality of life of eight victims! Sociopath is the correct moniker!
posted by
KennethSchustereit
on Jun 24, 2008 at 01:42 PM
rollinstone: Everything I said was documented and common public knowledge. If I rant then I rant with the truth. No! I have not threatened violence but I have spoken with the Sheriff about a deep gut feeling I have about TCEQ ignoring the wishes of the majority of affected people who oppose the mining. John the Baptist and Jesus were accused of ranting. I'm in good company! Sorry to disappoint you, but due to my continuing weight loss I am taking less diabetic meds! I have a friend who worked for GBRA and knows personally of the springs that feed Coleto Creek. He knows those springs are fed by underground water in the watershed of the creek! Any hydrologist WHO WILL INDEED TELL THE TRUTH knows what I say is correct! posted by
KennethSchustereit
on Jun 24, 2008 at 10:39 AM
John, If uranium mining is permitted each uranium processing unit could use up to 2000 a/f of water per year. This could very well dry up the springs that feed Coleto Creek. Indeed what water would be in the creek has a high probability of being contaminated with radioneuclides. Coleto runs in to the Guadalupe River. What little water in the creek may be contaminated even worse than it is by the Devereax sewage plant. What would this do to the makeup of the river? Unknown! The blue crab and shrimp nurseries in the delta could be effected. And, of course, the whooping crane lives on the blue crab! posted by
KennethSchustereit
on Jun 23, 2008 at 08:23 PM
The Duderstadts have been on their land for generations and now have to haul drinking water! TCEQ is basically saying they don't exist!
posted by
sandwichh
on Jun 23, 2008 at 05:15 PM
You've got to be kidding me? One part of a bottle of water can be exempt because you are not drinking that part...YET? My well is 186. They sure didn't judge the Edwards this way.
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