Comment: Uranium mining will happen all over America not just CO, it is trying to happen in Virginia too! But uranium mining and milling will happen all over the world in the name of greed and not to secure American like the nukes are saying! America is broke and America owes China, this is the payment, uranium at the expense of our lives, our land, our water and our air! Demand this to stop now! No to u mining and milling!
TELLURIDE – The regional fight against the resurrection of the uranium mining industry is garnering some big ink.
The tension between Telluride and the uranium-rich slickrock country to the west was the subject of a front-page story published Monday by theNew York Times. Telluride, “an hour away by car and a universe apart in terms of money and clout,” has emerged as a main base of opposition to a proposed uranium-processing mill, called Piñon Ridge, notes theTimes.
If approved, Piñon Ridge would be the first new uranium-processing facility in the United States in more than 25 years.
TheTimes suggests that the sometimes bitter dispute in Southwest Colorado may well be the harbinger of an angry national debate to come.
But Craig Pirazzi, a carpenter formerly of Telluride, remains suspicious of the uranium industry – which suffered a horrendous black eye because of its cavalier approach to human health 50 years ago.
“They say it’s going to be different this time around,” he said. “But our opposition to this proposal is based on the performance of historic uranium mining, because that’s all we have to go on – and that record is not good.”
TheDenver Post, meanwhile, reports that the uranium processed at Piñon Ridge would likely be exported out of the United States to fuel power plants in China.
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