In this letter, I ask for community supportiveness to be helpfully involved n appealing to our government officials, about the following issue, which I wrote of in the following letter that I sent to Canadian Government members on November 2/07 ...

Dear Members of the Canadian Government ,

As it has been said "Uranium ore bodies are among the deadliest mineral deposits on earth. They harbour large quantities of dangerous radioactive materials. Exploration and mining activities liberate these poisons into the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat." -Dr. Gordon Edwards ..

The President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility Donna Dillman began a hunger strike outside of the gates of the uranium protest site near Sharbot Lake, on October 8th, opposing uranium exploration and mining in Frontenac ad Lanark region.

I join with her and many others in calling for a permanent moratorium on uranium mining in Ontario, and in Canada. I include in this another Ontario area, which I live in, of Bancroft Ontario, where it is said that "corporates" are looking into opening uranium mines here too, this area where uranium mines used to be, which it is said has made this area radioactive from past mining. Scientific experts claim that if a mine was to be developed in the location where Donna's protest is, t would leach radioactive material, which has a half-life of 200,000 years, down the entire Mississippi watershed all the way to Ottawa, in a short period of time.

Time has shown that there has never been a "safe" uranium mine in the history of the industry. It is known that solar and wind power could supply our planet's needs many times over.

Is our country going to commit to saving our planet and life on it? I point out two famous world-quotations: " Truth is never seen sitting astride a fence." "Live truth instead of professing it." As world scientists say - if capitalistic ways are not quickly stopped and replaced with environmentally kind ways, life and our world are doomed to imminent destruction.

Already, in areas all over the world, bees and butterflies we need to pollinate our food, and songbirds, all a vital link in the world's needed eco-system, have, up to 80% disappeared. Extinction is rampant, in both plant and animal life, caused by human destructive practices of selfishness and greed. It must be stopped now.

Too many people have forgotten that humans are part of this eco-systems chain. Caring honesty and honest caring is needed.

In writing you, I call for a public inquiry into the impacts of the exploration and mining for uranium, and an environmental impact assessment, before exploration begins. Yet especially, I am calling for a permanent moratorium of uranium mining in Ontario, and, in fact, in the whole of Canada.

And, extremely importantly, I request that this issue be given top priority as Donna Dillman has been on the hunger strike at the protest site since October 8th and we would like to see her return home safely.

Virginia Sangster Bancroft, Ontario based on 'fact'