Today I write to you to express my concern over the proposed resumption of uranium mining in my region. I hope you will do whatever you can to STOP URANIUM MINING for the following reasons:

1. It’s a THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH for our generation and for our children. Uranium mining contaminates ground water (which we drink) and causes many health problems, some of which are eventually fatal. Cancers and leukemias are some of the results of human contact with uranium and its byproducts. Extraction and processing of uranium is not worth the sacrifices to our health and lives.
2. As always, mining companies gain millions of dollars from uranium, and the employees working for such companies undergo highly hazardous working conditions. IT IS NOT FAIR FOR LABORERS TO RECEIVE RELATIVELY LOW WAGES (compared to management and company owners) FOR THE POTENTIAL SACRIFICE OF THEIR LIVES AND THE HEALTH OF THEIR OFFSPRING. History shows us that some miners AND others in the community (especially if drinking radioactive water)will get cancers (including leukemia) in less than 30 years, and some will undergo genetic damage so that their future children will have birth defects, suffer developmental delays, carry genetic damage to their children, and many will suffer other fatal results. Kidney cancer is one of the common, predicable results from contact with uranium.
3. URANIUM MINING IS ETHICALLY PROBLEMATIC: any "benefits" (nuclear power, nuclear weapons, the "security" they allegedly bring) are controversial and completely outweighed by the harm uranium causes to physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. These health concerns are most immediate (physical and emotional) for the people in direct contact with the uranium during mining, transport, and processing. Those dealing with the moral consequences of highly toxic pollution caused by the uranium industry have a responsibility to face for their actions when the uranium and subsequent uses of it actually harm their fellow human beings directly or indirectly. (Indirect harm is when other plants or animals absorb the toxins and are then consumed by people, who develop illnesses from the radioactive nature of uranium and its daughter elements.)
4. THE HAZARDS OF URANIUM MINING STRETCH TO OTHER COMMUNITIES AND TO FUTURE GENERATIONS, because the toxicity of uranium will be spread around when it is transported to other locations, beyond North Western New Mexico.