Uranium Mining Quotes

• 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.

  Tom Udall

  Government, Trying, Colorado

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• You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

  Anthony Albanese

  Guarantees That, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

  Jan Brewer

  Beautiful, Arizona, States

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Acting, Coal, Tough

  "The school of hard Knox" by J Rentilly, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Reality, Oil, Degrees

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stupid, Oil, Tobacco Industry

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• It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

  Roger Maris

  Zinc, More Money, Mines

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• 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.

  Jan Brewer

  Beautiful, Writing, Government

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• 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.

  Joyce Banda

  Moving, Thinking, Order

  "Malawi's head of state: 'Why I'm selling presidential jet'". Interview with Athena Jones, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.

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• My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

  Eva Herzigova

  Mother, Father, Electrician

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• 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.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Gold, World, Philippines

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• 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.

  Rube Goldberg

  Writing, Engineering, Graduates

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• 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.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Engineering

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• 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.

  Steve Carell

  Death, New York, Husband

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• 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.

  Imelda Marcos

  College, Gold, Dollars

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• I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Authority, States

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Government, Data, Treasure

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

  Jane Urquhart

  Art, Kind, Silver

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• Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

  Stewart Udall

  Energy, Environment, Missions

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• If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

  Bindi Irwin

  Birthday, Daddy, Want

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• 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.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Cancer, Birth Defects

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• Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

  Peter Garrett

  Country, Environment, Expanding

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• 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.

  Winona LaDuke

  Fighting, Australia, Land

  "Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of 'Geronimo' as Code for Osama bin Laden: 'The Continuation of the Wars Against Indigenous People'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. May 6, 2011.

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