The Daily RecordWednesday, May 27 was the first “stakeholder” meeting in the rulemaking process for The Land and Water Stewardship Act of 2008, that made open pit uranium mining a “Designated Mining Operation” (DMO). It’s kind of like raising the terrorist level from orange to red. It puts uranium mining in with other toxic mining methods.
Is there any doubt left in this county that uranium mining is hazardous? If there is, then you’ve drunk the mining company’s “Koolaid.”
It’s dangerous and this rise in danger designation level deserves the attention of the Planning Commission.
It’s time Fremont County made some land use decisions, instead of avoiding them. Actually, it’s about 10 years too late. Had previous Planning Commissions set aside a “mineral district” like Gilpin and other counties did in the late 1990s, there wouldn’t have been the current land-use conflict, mining would be away from neighborhoods. But no land use decision was made and here we are.
People are waiting to build their homes: their lives are in limbo. The county should make a decision once and for all. Which will it be? Because you can’t have it both ways. Not near a neighborhood with urban density like Cottonwood River Ranch. It’s so tempting to pass the buck, but the buck stops with the Planning Commission. It’s time to decide. We call on you to do the right thing now that many people did and many people intend to build their homes here. Dewatering and contamination of water wells makes uranium mining incompatible. That’s not a DRMS decision to make — it’s a Planning Commission decision to make.
We are begging you to make it so that people can get on with their lives once and for all. (By the way no new rules will be made for DMOs in the meetings.)
Kay Hawklee
Cañon City
http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/Opinion-story.asp?ID=10723
People are waiting to build their homes: their lives are in limbo. The county should make a decision once and for all. Which will it be? Because you can’t have it both ways. Not near a neighborhood with urban density like Cottonwood River Ranch. It’s so tempting to pass the buck, but the buck stops with the Planning Commission. It’s time to decide. We call on you to do the right thing now that many people did and many people intend to build their homes here. Dewatering and contamination of water wells makes uranium mining incompatible. That’s not a DRMS decision to make — it’s a Planning Commission decision to make.
We are begging you to make it so that people can get on with their lives once and for all. (By the way no new rules will be made for DMOs in the meetings.)
Kay Hawklee
Cañon City
http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/Opinion-story.asp?ID=10723
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