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.
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.
Posted by: Jon | Feb 26, 2008 at 02:39 PM
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.
Posted by: keith brown | Feb 26, 2008 at 03:43 PM