SML 2010 Business Expo was a Success!!

12 volunteers for UraniumFree Virginia and League of Individuals for Environment, Inc. attended the Smith Mountain Lake 2010 Business Expo and distributed over 800 informational brochures, over 200 flyers, and collected over 100 signatures for the petition to the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission's Uranium Mining Subcommittee to include the Smith Mountain Lake, Leesville Lake and the surrounding counties, Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, and Pittsylvania, in the scope of the socio-economi impact study of uranium mining, which has begun with the grant of up to $200,000 approved on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.

To view the full text of the petition and to sign it online, please visit http://www.uraniumfreeva.org/.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE!

To Learn More:

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=12400126

http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/tobacco_commission_oks_funds_for_uranium_study/20655/

http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/lawmaker_spending_more_for_uranium_socioeconomic_study_not_wise/20563/

http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/lawmaker_spending_more_for_uranium_socioeconomic_study_not_wise/20563/

http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/uranium_investor_has_no_regrets_on_tobacco_commission_vote/20374/

http://www.wpcva.com/articles/2010/04/21/chatham/news/news50.txt

http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/article/process_begins_for_socioeconomic_study_of_uranium_mining/20129/Reidsville/

http://www.thenewsrecord.com/index.php/news/article/tobacco_cash_eyed_for_uranium_study/

http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/group_seeks_tobacco_money_to_fund_second_part_of_uranium_mining_study/19150/