By Tola Adamson
Danville,VA- Virginia Uranium recently put up a billboard on Route 29 welcoming drivers to Pittsylvania County, and it's raising a few eyebrows.
It names Pittsylvania County as "the future home of the safest uranium mine in the world."
Not everyone sees this billboard being welcoming, some say the billboard is quite presumptuous, since there is still a state ban on uranium mining.
But it's the way the message is worded that has some people shocked. It calls Pittsylvania County the
future home
of uranium mining. Some say the message is way too early.
"Yeah, it's somewhat presumptuous," said James Snead, Chairperson for Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors," It's a situation that is telling people you're going up down the road on 29 that we have a uranium mining picture in the future."
"It's bogus," said Sharon Wright, a Chatham resident. "They're want to trick people into voting for the uranium mining."
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