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Environmental groups to fight uranium mine expansion plans
Crawford, Nebraska (AP)
A plan to increase uranium mining near the South Dakota border has drawn a fight from a Pine Ridge environmental group that says the plan would take too much water and that the mine is contaminating groundwater. The uranium mine near Crawford is southwest of the Pine Ridge Reservation and produces 800,000 pounds of uranium a year for use in the nuclear power industry. The Crow Butte Resources mine is owned by Cameco Corp. of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. A spokeswoman for the Pine Ridge environmental group Owe Aku said the mine's plan would need an extra 2.4 billion gallons a year from an aquifer with drought problems - a 50 percent jump. |
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