a green party friend wrote this letter and shared it with me so I thought you might like to see another example of how our unregulated system drives the highways of violence and profit with little regard for the health of the planet or our health--
From: Richard Hamilton [mailto:rghamilton@skybeam.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:18 AM
To: 'Phillip Doe'; rghamilton@skybeam.com; Wells Hamilton; 'Ann Hamilton'
Subject: sent today to President Obama see Sec Interior Salazar
6 July 2010
The following was sent today to President Obama.
"South Park, Park County, Colorado is a 1300 sq. mile ancient valley at the headwaters of the South Platte River upstream of Denver approximately 40 miles. When reports of up to 40 million lbs. of uranium were reported here, community members petitioned Sec. Interior Salazar, under P.L. 95-87, Section 601, to initiate a comprehensive analysis of the federally-owned uranium mineral citing extreme public health concerns relating to safety of water resources as a basis of their petition. Secretary of Interior Salazar ignored the petitioner's request for six months and, thereafter, denied the petitioner's request entirely. The United States will not analyze and hold public hearings in our community of 11,000 private land parcels served by individual wells. And, the United States will also refuse doing any U S. government research on the uranium in-situ solution mining that has a potential for harming an uncontaminated aquifer providing domestic drinking water to ca. 2.5 million people of the Denver SMSA.
"If you think that the BP disaster in the Gulf is an enormous problem, consider - as Sec Salazar has not - contaminating for thousands of years a drinking water supply to 4 million people contaminated by uranium minerals owned and managed by the United States. It seems that Sec. Interior Salazar is not interested in the ecological / public health disaster that is relatively inevitable.
"Please change your policy to protect the health and well-being of our citizens - and please do so by removing sec. Interior Salazar from any policy position."
Richard G. Hamilton
531 Front Street
P. O. Box 156
Fairplay, Colorado 80440-0156
719.836.4619
