Jazz Shaw:
The proposed Native American monument would cover more than one million acres of land. While the indigenous people of the region should certainly have a voice in this debate, the creation of this monument would be disastrous for the country’s energy grid in the future. Those lands contain the richest deposits of uranium in our country and ongoing mining operations that could power many new nuclear reactors for the coming century or more. But if the land is designated as a national monument, all mining operations aside from the single existing uranium mine in the region will be banned.
# posted by Ranger @ 3:54 PM
