Beautification battles in Chatham
To the editor:
If Ben Davenport and Chatham Town Council are so concerned about the appearance of Chatham and how it is perceived by visitors, it seems only logical that they would be more concerned about the potential uranium mine and mill that Virginia Uranium Inc. and its Canadian partners are planning rather than getting themselves into a sweat over a couple of dilapidated buildings.
It seems odd that Davenport, the driving force behind this “eyesore” cleanup campaign, has to this point remained completely silent about the issue of uranium mining and milling, and yet he describes an abandoned building as “a real shame.”
The real shame will occur when the blasting begins at Coles Hill, and Chatham becomes known as the most radioactive place on the East coast.
It also is telling that Virginia Tech would be willing to provide “planning support” for the sanitizing of Chatham when they are at the same time planning massive support for VUI’s toxic adventure, which will take place a mere six miles from the center of town.
If the town cannot afford to remove an old mobile home from Whitehead Street, how do they think they will be able to pay for cleaning up 30 or 40 years of a uranium mine spewing poison onto its streets and rooftops?
They can plant all the flower beds they want, but if uranium mining becomes a reality in Pittsylvania County, all the flowers in the world will not attract anyone to Chatham — with the exception of the unemployed uranium miners from other states who will descend on the town.
Rather than panicking about the mouse running across the floor, Davenport and the town council would be wiser to make a plan about the 1,000-pound gorilla sitting in the room with them. Which one poses the greater threat?
JESSE PYRANT ANDREWS
Halifax
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How low the nukes act when people do not agree with their views!
It is funny that Chatham is worried about old buildings in the town area when 2 or 3 huge open pit uranium mining with just be a few miles down the road and the leaders do not have the guts to invoke a ordinance to ban uranium mining!
Of course, if the State of Virginia allows uranium mining it will be in everybody’s back yard, 40,000 acres in our county has uranium and you may not own the mineral rights under your house!
Therefore, one day, a drilling rig may start drilling holes in your yard!
Uranium is all over Virginia, so watch out Northern Virginia, your horses will be drinking uranium water too!
No to Uranium Mining!
I wonder if the moron who wrote this letter really think that the uranium on and in the ground at coles hill is really dormant and not already leeching into the streams and water table every time in rains?
What kind of gaurantee can these tree hugging idiots give us that the uranium on and in the ground will never pollute our presious earth for eternity as long as we don’t mine it?
Dig the crap up and haul it off and be done with it.
YO! PEACE (prize for hussien obammie)
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