DO YOU KNOW about URANIUM...in NEW BRUNSWICK????

Inform yourself now because it's our future and that of our children -

· Uranium is a highly dangerous and radioactive heavy metal
· Exploration and mining of uranium releases these radioactive substances into the air, water and soil over long distances. These substances include, among many others, radium, radon gas, and polonium-210
· Prospecting for uranium is being conducted in areas between Sussex and Moncton. Including land that borders Turtle creek, the drinking water supply for 100,000 of Moncton, Riverview and Dieppe residents.
· Mineral exploration and prospecting on “PRIVATE PROPERTY” have taken place near Moncton, on the Ammon and Irishtown Rds and surrounding areas.
· Prospectors have been offering “water testing” to residents of the Ammon Rd., as a ploy to determine minerals in the land.

· Uranium exploration and mining is banned in British Columbia.

ASK your MLA:
1. Why there are no limits on Uranium and mineral exploration in our drinking water supply?
2. Why New Brunswickers health is not being considered in permitting uranium exploration?
3. Why there are few limits on uranium and mineral exploration close to people’s homes, in rural areas and even in towns and cities?
· Phone: Rt.Hon. Shawn Graham (506) 523-7980
Hon. Mike Murphy 869-6115 (Minister of Health)
Hon. Wally Stiles 756-3137
John Betts 869-6579
Chris Collins 856- 2595
Bruce Fitch 869-6117
Cy Leblanc 869-6580
Wayne Steeves 856-3006
Joan MacAlpine-Stiles 869-6360
Bernard Leblanc 758-9293
Claude Williams 525-4025
OR: Email: premier@gnb.ca
MLA emails: Firstname.familyname@gnb.ca
Example: Claude.Williams@gnb.ca



· DID YOU KNOW -Excerpts from the Mining Act of New Brunswick

· “Most minerals, as defined under the Mining Act, are owned by the Crown.”
· “Crown owned minerals are property separate from the soil; that is, a landowner owns the surface rights out does not own minerals”
· “The Province makes Crown owned minerals available for exploration and development.”- on “private” or Crown lands, by anyone holding a prospectors license
· A prospecting license may be issued to “a person who is at least 16 years old, to a company, or to a registered partnership.”

****According to the U.S Surgeon General, Radon released in massive quantities into the air and dissolved in surface waters, is the SECOND LEADING CAUSE OF LUNG CANCER in the U.S.