Petition against uranium mining in Kuusamo, Finland

#33: nico - eco extremism again, causing damage while "meaning well"

That was so full of crap... Nuclear power is not without carbon, the mining, transport, and in the end storing all cost and pollute. I bet the storage was not calculaded. Of course still much less the coal power plant. Also this shit is maybe not our problem in the end as it is shipped to some poor countries or countries who just don't care.

And for sure it is not the only without contributing to the climate issue. The new stuff like solar and wind power is still expensive and production costs and does polute, but we do have stuff like Hydropower for example. Solar power technology is getting better all the time and that is the way we should go.

But back to the nuclear power. I mean which power source needs a plan of 100 000 years? Who is so naive to trust you can store radiating waste for 100 000 years? few hundred years ago we did not even have electricity, few hundred years more in history electricity would have been thought as black magic. Only few thousand years ago Jesus was supposed to walk on earth in the primitive human world. I guess 15 000 years ago was the last ice age and we have some strange animals roaming the lands. You can still see the power of the ice. Lakes and hills that were formed, and the land that is still raising after the pressure of the ice is gone. 50 000 years ago neardentals walked among the early homosapiens. Homo Sapiens left Africa and arrived to Eurasia some 125,000-60,000 years ago. And based on our "long" high tech history we can safely store this stuff for 100 000 year? I have my douts.

Still I am not too much against nuclear power plants, they do provide cleaner energy than for example coal power plants. Still it is not any magic of the atom. It is just another big steam engine. Then again nucler energy is not even the topic here.

History shows that these mines fuck up the nature, there are just too many examples. And as mentioned here the Uranium is just a byproduct and they are really after gold so before trolling around with your facts against "propaganda", get your facts straight... now you just seemed like a fundamentalist bully shouting at something you don't know anything about. Linking to some study of mining in the middle of Australian desert does not compare to the area we are talking about in the middle of lakes and rivers and bordering one of the most popular national parks in Finland. Every now and then I drink the ground water of that area and you can actually drink the water straight from the rivers... how about in the Australian desert? Lots of turists there near the mines? In our country with population only 5,421,827 Kuusamo was the 5th most visited touristic attraction during the year 2007. Appr. one million visitors in Kuusamo every year. Most popular place I guess is the Ruka ski resort right next to the planned mines and in 2010 169.000 people alone visited Oulanka National Park bordering the claims.