Crawford, Nebraska - Largest operating Uranium mine in the US - owned by Canadian company, Cameco, Inc. through its Crow Buttes Resources subsidiary based in Colorado, is using up and polluting the huge High Plains aquifer with radioactivity and arsenic to the detriment of the people and wildlife in a time of drought and a depleting aquifer.

What: The 174,000 acre High Plains aquifer in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Wyoming is being used up at rate of 4.7 billion gallons per year and contaminated with a slow-moving radioactive plume by a Canadian owned uranium mine in Crawford Nebraska that uses 9,000 gallons per minute of pure water and pumps it back into the aquifer with low levels of radioactivity and increased levels of arsenic. There is no safe "low dose" of radioactivity. Low level radioactivity causes cancer, kidney disease, birth defects, miscarriages and infant brain seizures and contaminates the meat of animals like cows and sheep that eat grass fed with radioactive water. Increased levels of arsenic cause kidney disease, cancer and birth defects.

Where: Crawford, Nebraska

Why: Pure profit - the price of Uranium Yellowcake is at $150/lb and the Crawford plant produces 800,000 lbs per year and they want to expand to the so-called "North Trend" area.

Who: Crow Buttes Resources is a Colorado based, Canadian owned company. It's parent is Cameco, Inc. (www.cameco.com) which is the largest Uranium mining and processing company in the world.

When: Now! On November 12, 2007 seven petitioners, Thomas Cook, Chadron Native American Center, High Plains Community Development Corp., Bruce McIntosh, Debra White Plume and Owe Aku filed for a hearing on expansion of this Uranium mine. This is the FIRST TIME in 17 years anyone has filed for a hearing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC"). Crow Buttes is seeking an amendment to their licenses to expand to the North Trend area; dig more mines there and then transport it by truck on local roads to their existing Crawford processing facility.

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