To the editor:
I believe we should mine the uranium under Chatham, and as Alaska does with oil, share some of the profits with those who live in the area. It could revitalize the community - and it will certainly create jobs.
Uranium may have its share of problems, but it is too valuable a source of energy not to be mined. When I see a single person driving a massive SUV through Danville, I think that concern for the environment is simple rot. If people really cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be driving vehicles the size of houses.
I very seriously doubt that there will be any real danger that cannot be foreseen and avoided in uranium mining. Certainly, it cannot do the damage that gasoline-powered vehicles already do.
This is a conservative, Republican-dominated area, and if the profits of uranium mining are shared, most Republicans wouldn’t mind being a little radioactive.
HAROLD DAVIS
Chatham
2 comments:
REPLY TO HAROLD DAVIS:
The true idiocy of Mr. Davis’ thinking has been beautifully revealed through his retarded grasp of what is at stake here. The majority of intelligent, well informed citizens of Pittsylvania County do not want a share of the profits from this Faustian Pact. Hand-in-hand with the fallacious assertion that uranium mining will revitalize the community and create jobs, the uranium proponents have shown themselves to be hopelessly and irretrievably stuck in the past, with absolutely no clue as to what the innovative engineers and concerned scientists of today are moving toward and accomplishing: Energy that is safe, clean and ultimately cheap and renewable (i.e., solar, wind, water), of which my husband and I are investing in, bit-by-bit, for our small farm in Hurt, VA. Mr. Davis’ avarice and that of the individuals and companies involved in this dirty business, knows no bounds. One would have to be completely deluded and barking mad to think that any of us, Republican or Democrat, “wouldn’t mind being a little radioactive.” For someone with such a moronic grasp of the cumulative effects of radiation and the long-term catastrophic destruction that uranium mining would unleash upon the citizens and environment of Virginia (not to mention the surrounding states), Mr. Davis needs to go away quietly to the shed on Coles’ Hill and glow with all the other num-nuts investing in this hair-brained scheme.
Michelle C. Huffer
Nunsuch Place Farm
Hurt, VA
REPLY TO HAROLD DAVIS:
The true idiocy of Mr. Davis’ thinking has been beautifully revealed through his retarded grasp of what is at stake here. The majority of intelligent, well informed citizens of Pittsylvania County do not want a share of the profits from this Faustian Pact. Hand-in-hand with the fallacious assertion that uranium mining will revitalize the community and create jobs, the uranium proponents have shown themselves to be hopelessly and irretrievably stuck in the past, with absolutely no clue as to what the innovative engineers and concerned scientists of today are moving toward and accomplishing: Energy that is safe, clean and ultimately cheap and renewable (i.e., solar, wind, water), of which my husband and I are investing in, bit-by-bit, for our small farm in Hurt, VA. Mr. Davis’ avarice and that of the individuals and companies involved in this dirty business, knows no bounds. One would have to be completely deluded and barking mad to think that any of us, Republican or Democrat, “wouldn’t mind being a little radioactive.” For someone with such a moronic grasp of the cumulative effects of radiation and the long-term catastrophic destruction that uranium mining would unleash upon the citizens and environment of Virginia (not to mention the surrounding states), Mr. Davis needs to go away quietly to the shed on Coles’ Hill and glow with all the other num-nuts investing in this hair-brained scheme.
Michelle C. Huffer
Nunsuch Place Farm
Hurt, VA
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