[Ost-news] Yukon: Uranium exploration could open Pandora’s box, critics fear

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Uranium exploration could open Pandora’s box, critics fear  
Wednesday, November 28, 2007  
By Chris Oke Special to the Yukon News

Cash Minerals’ application to build a winter road along the Wind River Trail to further its search for uranium deposits concerns tourism and environmental groups.

Most troubling is the very mineral the exploration company is searching for.

For the past four years, Cash Minerals has been hunting for the radioactive metal.

“I see no reason why they shouldn’t mine uranium,” said Yukon Chamber of Mines president John Witham.

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