Judicial Inquiry Demanded
Into Uranium Mining in B.C.
Publisher: Energy File, Vancouver, Canada
Year Published: 1978
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX844
A breif that calls for an immediate moratorium on uranium exploration and the establishment of a full public judicial inquiry to ensure a fair and thorough examination of all relevant questions. It also asks for public preliminary hearings in which public interest groups would be permitted to participate.
Abstract:
This brief, one-page position paper on the British Columbia Inquiry into Uranium Mining is the result of a month of meetings culminating in endorsement by over twenty-one organizations and forwarded to members of the B.C. government. It calls for an immediate moratorium on uranium exploration and the establishment of a full public judicial inquiry to ensure a fair and thorough examination of all relevant questions. It also asks for public preliminary hearings in which public interest groups would be permitted to participate.
The paper also outlines the specific content to which the inquiry should address itself as well as the structure and process which should govern its establishment and operation. They insist the inquiry should look at whether uranium mining is in the public interest of B.C. In this respect, they suggest a need to consider value judgements involved in coming to conclusions about this matter and, on this basis, evaluate the full range of technical, medical, and social impacts as well as environmental evidence. They demand that questions pertaining to uranium exports, finances and the full range of regional and national economic impacts be confronted and the inquiry address itself to the process by which decisions on uranium mining and exploration are made.
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