N&R letter-writer Will Truslow tells me all kinds of stuff I didn't know: that some folks near Danville are sitting on top of a very large amount of uranium that they would like to dig up and sell, that VA has a moratorium on uranium mining, and that environmental safety concerns have made the possible lifting of the moratorium a hot issue north of the border.

Here's the site for Virginia Uranium Inc.

This blogger leans toward lifting the moratorium. She's got a lot of useful info and posts on the topic. These folks oppose uranium mining. Some big media coverage.

Comments

[Jon]

Ed, this reminds me of how the the town of Misenheimer, N.C., was incorporated to annex private property -- to prevent the owner from opening and operating a mine to access what has been estimated at about one billion dollars' worth of gold.

[keith brown]

never knew that existed but as you can see from their web site 78% of company is owned by the owners of the land. This will be very interesting to watch this issue play out in south central virginia. I am sure the local politicians want their cut.