Campaigns Bear Butte Drilling near Bear Butte
Drilling near Bear Butte
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Dear Defenders,
Attached is an unexpectedly swift response from Rapid City Journal and National Park service. Good reading though and lets hope it has some impact against the Drilling proposed for the Sacred Bear Butte area.
Rapid City Journal - Sunday April 13, 2011
Official Oppose oil field near Bear Butte
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"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
