01/19/2009
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"Mohave County, while it benefits somewhat from this activity, would starve if it were dependent upon the tourism as a primary source of income."
"Our unemployment rate is currently 11 percent. My brothers in the Navajo Nation are at a staggering 52 percent."
"The proponents of the Arizona Strip withdrawal talk of stopping uranium mining in the Grand Canyon. This is a convenient, self serving distortion of the truth."
"Careful environmental studies... make it clear that uranium mining in this area pose no real threat to the environment."