The citizens of Canyon City, Colorado have been fighting for years to have 1.3 billion gallons of uranium-contaminated groundwater cleaned up. In November of 2008, the community organization Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste hired Boxcar Films to come out to Colorado and help tell their story by creating the short documentary “Yellowcake.” Today they are still fighting… but an end may be in sight. HB10-1348, The Uranium Processing Accountability Act, would ensure that the polluter, not the taxpayer, would have to pay for cleaning up the mess. The Bill has been moving through the Colorado House and Senate easily. It would require all Colorado Uranium Mills to clean up their toxic waste before they can expand their licenses, and would warn future residents about contaminated well water.
KDVR, FOX channel 31 in Denver, recently ran a story about the pending legislation and used a lot of footage that was provided by Boxcar Films. We sent them b-roll of the uranium mill that we filmed back in 2008 and they used a lot of our footage in the final news piece. Check out the video below to see the news story and learn about the proposed legislation.
If you want to learn more about the broader implications of this issue, watch our short documentary “Yellowcake” below.
http://www.vimeo.com/11148758