Earth Day, 2013: Do You Want to Be Radioactive? If Not, Join the VA Uranium Mining Opposition

By On 04/25/2013 · Leave a Comment

Last Monday, April 22nd, I participated in an Earth Day celebration at Vance-Granville Community College (VGCC), North Carolina, where people and organizations brought awareness to a multitude of environmental issues. I was asked to share information about why uranium mining in Virginia poses such a threat to Virginia, North Carolina, and states along the Eastern [...]

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A Letter to Governor McCrory: A Call For NC Public Input and Legal Action to Stop Uranium Mining

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The following is a letter Ken and I wrote to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory concerning uranium mining in Virginia.  We mention the position on uranium mining by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources that “a release of radioactive tailings could have devastating adverse socioeconomic impacts on the communities of northeastern North [...]

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Press Statment: Legislative Building,Richmond, VA, Uranium Mining and Lifting the Ban

By On 01/07/2013 · Leave a Comment

January 7, 2013

To: The Press

From: Ken and Deborah Ferruccio (252) 257-2604 0r 9266

Warren County Citizens For Keeping the Ban on Uranium Mining

 

Let us state our position clearly so there can be no doubt as to where we stand.  We stand with the people of Chatham and others opposed to the plan [...]

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Why “Best Practices” Do Not Justify Lifting the Ban on Uranium Mining and Milling

By On 01/06/2013 · Leave a Comment

At the December 11, 2012 Uranium Mining Public Hearing in Chatham, Virginia, copies of the Virginia Uranium Working Group Report, November 30, 2012, were made available to the public.  Of the 94 page Report, a little more than one-half a page is given to a section titled: “best managment practices.”  In order to learn more about the specifics [...]

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Gag Agreement on Uranium Mining in Pinehouse, Saskatuan Canada Sets Stage For US

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Subject: Media Release – Pinehouse, Saskatchewan residents decry imminent

signing  of  uranium gag agreement

Those who attended the 12/11/12 meeting of the Virginia Uranium Working Group heard a question put to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel members regarding Canada and a place referred to as Pinehouse, Saskatchewan.  The panel seemed to have no knowledge of this issue [...]

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Press Statement: Dec. 11, 2012

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December 11, 2012
To: The News Media of North Carolina and Virginia

For several years the people of Chatham, Virginia have been mounting an opposition to a plan to mine uranium in their county if a thirty-year ban on uranium mining is lifted by the Virginia Legislature next month, and now more than ever [...]

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Public Barred Again at Virginia Uranium Mining Hearing

By On 12/13/2012 · Leave a Comment

On December 12, 2012, Ken Ferruccio and I attended the last of a series of “public hearings” on uranium mining in Virginia. I use quotations because the public was barred from speaking.  Citizens were allowed to submit their questions on 3 x 5 cards, or they could later send them to the Virginia Uranium Working Group [...]

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To the News Media and the Public — September 15, 2012

By On 09/21/2012 · 2 Comments

Press Statement

 

To:  The News Media and the Public

From: Deborah and Ken Ferruccio

Warren County, NC Citizens Concerned About PCBs

Subject:  The Warren County 30th Anniversary PCB Celebration:

                  Why We Did Not Attend

 Date:  September 15, 2012

For the public record, we would like the news media and the public to [...]

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PCB Celebration Misguided By Deborah Ferruccio, Warren County, NC

By On 09/21/2012 · Leave a Comment

Last fall, in a letter to the editor of the Warren Record and in a front page Henderson Daily Dispatch article, I spoke about our intentions to celebrate the upcoming thirtieth anniversary of the groundbreaking fall 1982 PCB movement, but when I met in February with community planners of what became the Environmental Action Team [...]

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False Environmental Justice Model

By On 09/21/2012 · 1 Comment

Ken Ferruccio, Warren County, North Carolina

Warren County, NC PCB Celebration — Why I Did Not Attend

September 15, 2012

Let us celebrate the people of Warren County, North Carolina, for building and launching the four-year (1978-1982) research-based environmental justice model and convincing civil-rights organizations and many other people to march the model [...]

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