“But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.” BigsStupidDependsIndustryOilPropagandaCoalTobaccoMiningDrillingBig OilUranium MiningTobacco Industry Author:Jeff Goodell
“Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.” PeopleStillsTwoStatesFightingUnitedUnited StatesLandPercentThirdsScalesCanadaNativeAustraliaIndigenousMiningAboriginalUraniumUranium Mining Author:Winona LaDuke
“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.” TwoCountryEnoughLeftMillionsMaterialsAmountBirthWastePercentAreasEnvironmentalRateCancerIllnessProductionsCanadaRegionsPollutionDefectsHighwaysTransMeterMiningUraniumBirth DefectsUranium MiningSaskatchewanRadioactive Waste Author:Winona LaDuke
“Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.” WellsCountryInterestEnvironmentConvincedExpandingMiningUraniumUranium Mining Author:Peter Garrett
“Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.” ActingToughCoalTediousMiningUranium MiningCoal Mining Author:Johnny Knoxville
“Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.” CompanyCollegeGoldBillsDollarsLawyerBillionsGatesPossessedStolenMiningTradersDropoutsUranium Mining Author:Imelda Marcos
“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.” ShouldRealityBitsEnvironmentCostDegreesRemainsOilDamageExpensiveGasMiningGas PricesIncorporatingExternalitiesUranium MiningMarket Failure Author:Elon Musk
“I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.” ThinkingShouldStatesAuthorityManufacturingMiningUranium Mining Author:Rand Paul
“Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.” TryingGovernmentBombsFederal GovernmentAtomic BombMiningColoradoUraniumPurchasersUranium Mining Author:Tom Udall
“Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.” KindArtSaidEarthArtistArt IsVarietySilverMiningSparklingUranium Mining Author:Jane Urquhart
“My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.” WellsCareKidsYoungDeathHouseLostCommunityNew YorkHusbandSixToughRaisedRanGrandmaMiningMinersUpstate New YorkUranium MiningBoarding HouseTough Lady Author:Steve Carell
“Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.” EnergyEnvironmentMissionsRenewable EnergyMiningClean EnergyUranium Mining Author:Stewart Udall
“If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.” IfsWantCompanyOne ThingMinesBirthdayReservesDaddyMy BirthdayMiningUranium Mining Author:Bindi Irwin
“You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.” WasteWeaponsNuclearGuaranteesNuclear WeaponsGuarantees ThatMiningUraniumNuclear WasteUranium Mining Author:Anthony Albanese
“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.” StatesBeautifulBuiltArizonaMiningConciseUraniumUranium Mining Author:Jan Brewer
“Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.” WritingCompanyTeamSellsTrainSignificantAdvertisingDataCodeInsultAdsPortionsEngineeringAestheticsDisruptionInterruptionsMiningTuningTrain Of ThoughtUranium Mining Author:Jan Koum
“I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.” KnowsWritingAll ThingsGraduatesEngineeringEngineersIlliterateMiningUranium Mining Author:Rube Goldberg
“It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.” IfsMinesIf I CouldMore MoneyMiningUranium MiningZinc Author:Roger Maris
“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.” NeedsWritingStatesGovernmentBeautifulAnswersClearHugeBuiltRegulationFederal GovernmentHere And NowArizonaMiningCopperConciseUraniumRules And RegulationsUranium Mining Author:Jan Brewer
“What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector.” ThinkingMovingOrderGrowsEconomyFocusDecidedTradeAidsAgricultureTourismMiningUranium Mining Author:Joyce Banda
“My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.” MotherFatherCompanySecretaryMiningElectricianUranium Mining Author:Eva Herzigova
“The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.” WorldStillsResourcesGoldResponsibleRevenueMineralsPhilippinesMiningDepositsCopperNickelsExtractionUranium Mining Author:Benigno Aquino III