EPA hearing uranium testimony

South Dakota Republicans call it the "fed's war on energy" when it's really Big Energy's war on the Earth.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency took testimony in Chadron yesterday on new rules for in-situ uranium operations, such as the proposed Dewey Burdock project north of Edgemont and Cameco's Crow Butte mine near Crawford. The proposed new rules, the first in 2 decades, require companies to record the groundwater chemistry before mining begins, then return the water to that chemistry when mining ends and monitor water quality for 30 years. Political science professor turned uranium mining expert and opponent Lilias Jarding said in-situ mining poses as many environmental risk as the old open-pit mining used in the first uranium rush in South Dakota 6 decades ago. The EPA will hold tomorrow public testimony sessions, both in Casper - one tonight and the other on Thursday morning. [KCSR Radio]

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