Uranium Study Confirmed as Statewide [not Focused on Coles Hill]

As we've been saying here for several weeks, the Mining Subcommittee's study will not address issues specific to Coles Hill at all. It will focus on mining state-wide instead. Anyone hoping for answers to questions about how a mining/milling operation a Coles Hill might affect Pittsylvania Co. or Southside will be disappointed. Nothing in the study will be site-specific. Appomattox News has interviewed Del. Watkins Abbitt and has confirmed this.

By Linda Goin on June 4th, 2009

On 21 May 2009, The Virginia Coal and Energy Commission’s Uranium Mining Subcommittee met to adopt a Statement of Task that was designed to set formal terms for a review of uranium mining. Although it has been reported that this Statement of Task was to focus on the Coles Hill uranium vein located near Chatham, it appears that the study now is statewide. The statewide scope has been confirmed by Delegate Watkins Abbitt in a phone interview conducted Monday morning, 1 June 2009 and in a phone interview conducted this morning with Patrick Wales, geologist and project manager at Virginia Uranium, Inc . (emphasis mine...SB)

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