the Alliance of Texans for Uranium Research & Action

Mission: ALTURA through research, education, and outreach, seeks to protect our citizens, our natural resources, and our economies from uranium exploration and mining contamination in the State of Texas.

South Texas Opposes Pollution (STOP) based in Kleberg County, Uranium Information at Goliad (UIAG) based in Goliad County, and the Coastal Bend Sierra Club (CBSC) based in Nueces County founded ALTURA in early 2008 to address serious threats to groundwater posed by uranium mining exploration, mining, milling, transporation, and disposal.

ALTURA participants invite you to join us in this effort.

You can:
* Become a cooperating Group by contacting one of the ALTURA point persons on the 'Resources' page on this site;
* Write a personal, handwritten letter to your Legislators and the regulatory agencies listed on the 'Resources' page on this site; or, you can,
* Make a financial contribution on the 'Donate' page on this site.

STOP has been educating citizens and actively contesting uranium mining and milling by Uranium Resources Inc. in Ricardo, near Kingsville, Texas for over twenty years. Contact: Ann Ewing, 361-687-4805, stop@southtexasopposespollution.com or Mark Walsh, 361-595-1265

UIAG began educational outreach when Uranium Energy Corporation began exploring for uranium near Weesatch north of Goliad, Texas in 2006. Contact: Ginger Cook or Reta Brown, 361-564-2765, grb@wb4me.com

The Coastal Bend Sierra Club has members in 12 of the 16 counties of Texas where uranium mining companies have operated or are now operating: Atascosa, Bee, Duval, Goliad, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Starr, and Zavala. http://www.texas.sierraclub.org/coastalbend/index.html Contact: Pat Suter, 361-852-7938

Uranium mining companies are also now active or were historically active in Brooks, McMullen, and Jim Hogg counties in the Coastal Bend of Texas, and in Briscoe County in the Panhandle.
ALTURA supports a moratorium on all uranium exploration and mining in drinking water aquifers in Texas.