Monday, July 7, 2008

Uranium activists: CARD one year later ..

A couple of years ago, Jay and Robin Davis bought 80 acres of land near Nunn, Colorado so that Robin could have the horses she loved, and work with 4-H kids teaching them to ride.
But they got a lot more than they bargained for.

First they had to organize to fight the proposed super slab project- a massive private highway
project that would have gone through their property.
Then, they got a letter that said a uranium mining company owned mineral rights to their property and wanted to do ISL mining.

In the last year, they organized CARD (Coloradoans Against Resource destruction).
Now, they're helping groups across the nation organize against uranium companies,
and the Colorado Legislature has passed new legislation to regulation ISL mining of
uranium.

Card founder Jay Davis tells the story of how it all came about ..

Caroline Harding, KRFC

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