The Ownership of the Company (VUI) Is Not Important

Another great letter from Jesse Andrews - GV

Concerning the letter written by Walter Coles in the Jan. 7 issue of the Star Tribune, explaining who really owns Virginia Uranium, Inc., I would like it known, as one of the "strident opponents of the uranium development project at Coles Hill," that I personally do not care who owns VUI. In my opinion, it makes no difference whether the owners are the Coles and Bowen families, Santoy, or 
Santa Clause. The fact remains that whoever the owners are, whoever the investors are, and whoever actually mines the uranium, that uranium is still and will forever remain deadly poison which will, if mined and processed as VUI wishes, contaminate the water, air and landscape of Southside Virginia for thousands of years to come. 

The ownership of the company is not important. Go ahead and merge your holding with whomever you wish. I, and the majority of the citizens of Southside, will remain steadfastly opposed to the mining and milling of uranium at Coles Hill, or anywhere in Virginia. Your venture is motivated by 
simple greed, and  you and VUI's investors are the only people who will benefit from that venture. 

You expect us to embrace your potentially deadly speculation as if it were somehow going to mean the salvation of Southside. Why should we? We stand to lose everything we have worked for, including our homes, our health, and that of our children. Do you really believe that who owns VUI will make any of that different somehow? Do you really believe that if you alone owned VUI and were its only employee that the people of Southside would feel differently about what you stand to gain and we stand to lose if this mining goes forward? Your assertion that we who oppose uranium development find Canadians to be "scary foreigners" is ridiculous. YOU, calling yourself our "neighbor" is what scares me.

 
Jesse Pyrant Andrews,   Halifax