"Manuel Longoria vs. URI where Mr. Longoria accused URI of dumping all kinds of radwaste on top of and underneath his property. Cause number 16264, filed August 25, 1995. Look it up."

So, can you name an aquifer and local economy that was destroyed as a result of such an uranium mining incident? That was the challenge.

The brave are those commissioners and judge who put the interests of the community above corporate interest, and voted to continue the fight against Uranium Energy Corp. Imagine if you had in your foxhole the flip flop commissioners who gave in and and sold out by changing their vote. UEC apparently got to the two commissioners who voted to stop the legal battle. Commissioner Long has it right "If they get a mine permit and get started, it'll spread like cancer."

Geez some of you are missing the point that we don't want to see IF the aquifer gets contaminated. We live here and this is a serious threat to our way of life. We have the right to protest this potential threat and to do our best to get rid of the threat. I think some of you would feel very different if this issue affected your family and your way of life.

Thank you brave commissioners. "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
Capt. John Parker to the Minutemen at Lexington

Manuel Longoria vs. URI where Mr. Longoria accused URI of dumping all kinds of radwaste on top of and underneath his property. Cause number 16264, filed August 25, 1995. Look it up.

"Uranium mining will have the unintended consequence of contaminating our ground water and destroying our economy."

Can anyone give me a single example, from all the uranium mining that has gone on in Texas, where this has occurred? Do you know how many uranium mines are in Texas? There have been 110, according to this EPA database (http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/tenorm/pu...).

Please name the aquifer that was destroyed, the uranium mine responsible, and the local economy that went with it.

Give a hoot! Don't pollute! Uranium mining will have the unintended consequence of contaminating our ground water and destroying our economy. When the aquifer is ruined, the uranium company will slip out of town in the middle of the night, leaving their billions of dollars of liability.

MSRB - CONCUR!!! I'm still laughing, But so true!!

wish I had a copy of this petition to hang in my outhouse next to my sears catalog

If you expect that this mining could not affect your drinking water, then go ahead and agree to it. Don't come crying later when your swimming pool is full of iron bacteria and your grandchildren are drinking radionuclides. You asked for it! You got it!!

I'd like to address something. UEC states in their "investors' presentation" that "Texas is an 'agreement state'. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issues the mining permit. No Federal approvals are necessary."

This is not entirely correct. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region VI must grant an "aquifer exemption" for the mining to occur. Though this is usually granted upon the recommendation of TCEQ, I don't believe this will be the case with the Goliad situation. EPA is reading this response, as they have read everything I've written as well as the comments from other concerned folks. We're the first group of people to have a good baseline prior to the mining so if something does happen to our water, we will point our fingers at EPA as well as TCEQ and the mining company.

Neither TCEQ nor EPA have ever had this in front of them before, so will EPA grant the aquifer exemption?

They say Texas is a "Fast-Track Permitting State", kind of like a scaled-down version of a college class where the professor tells you the answers to the final exam the day before. How embarrassing.

I used to be proud to call myself a Texan. Oh well.

Gee I wonder how much tax base the commissioners will have to work with if there is no usable DRINKING WATER in a large portion of the county. Where will UEC be then?
Has anyone actually said or written how much tax base these folks will provide? How many jobs? Will they be from Goliad? What pay scale?

The petition seems like a cheap and unsophisticated shot by people of the same ilk. Glad it was debunked.

The whole thing is about money. Some people are willing to sell out everybody else in the county for the almighty dollar. They justify it with "good for the local economy" and "help employ the locals" and "I can do what I want with my land" but if they cared one whit about the survival of Goliad County and its people, they would be fighting against uranium mining with the rest of us.

There have been people living here for centuries now and a mistake/contamination of the aquifer by one company could change everything.

For the sake of the almighty dollar.

Shameful.

Funny how it always comes down to money. Problem is you can't buy an aquifer. The State has to give it to you or save it for you, one or the other.

Thirty one applications have been made in Texas to mine uranium, and 31 permits have been granted historically. Doesn't this seem a little odd? If everybody in school got A's in class, wouldn't you smell a rat?

I particularly like the disclosures on the company's website, including "risks inherent in exploration activities" and "unexpected geological and hydrological conditions". That pretty much sums it up.