Demo Flyer of Finnish Activists
SOUTH LAPLAND THREATENED BY NUCLEAR MADNESS!
In Ranua - a municipality located in Lapland, Finland - the soil and groundwater are in danger of being contaminated by uranium prospecting. Multinational nuclear energy company AREVA has submitted their application for a mining claim in an area on the border between the Ranua and Rovaniemi municipalities, to the Ministry of Employment and Economy. On the claim area there are several marshes and small waters that are connected to the groundwater reserves and to he Simo river, which is designated as a NATURA2000 area. If the claim goes ahead, there would be in total over 10 kilometres of drillings and they would extend below the level of the groundwater reserves. If radioactive ore gets in contact with the water, the consequences are likely to be fatal both for the area's groundwater and for the Simo river.
An uranium mine in Lapland would lead to all the people who now get their livelihood from berry or mushroom picking, collecting wild plants, reindeer herding, fishing or agriculture to lose their source of income. Mining and radioactive waste in the vulnerable northern nature would also destroy Europe's largest remaining wilderness areas for forever. In many countries people and companies are watching Finnish policy on nuclear energy and uranium mining to see if it starts a new trend on nuclear energy. So this is not only a local issue but important to all the people in Finland and other parts of he world!
Around the world, uranium mining has resulted in extreme environmental destruction. In Europe it has been abolished precisely because of environmental problems. AREVA, the company active in Ranua, is responsible for enormous environmental destruction in their mining regions in Niger, and in France for the algae-based processing of mining tailings (i.e. leftover rock & sediment), which created a public scandal. In Finland, AREVA is also building the new (EPR) reactor in Olkiluoto, which has turned into a fiasco.
contact: Ranua Rescue group, ranuarescue AT gmail.com[1]
What can YOU do to stop this madness? Check out: http://nuclearfreefinland.org/en/nuclear-information
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