"if either project starts it will mean violence!"

-Kenneth Schusteriet
September 24, 2009 at 7:38 a.m.

unicorn,
WHO THREATENED violence?

Gee, isn't threatening violence the essential terrorist tactic?

Sidney Braquet was right about y'all.
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/...

..."unexpected geological or hydrological conditions" is part of the disclosure on the mining company's website.

This is a transcribed account of a recent conversation (today) with a local water well driller.

“I’m not gonna tell you they can control it. When you pressure down and lose circulation in the formation, it could be going anywhere. Sometimes you find it in an old well 100 yards away,(drilling mud) or sometimes you don’t find it at all.”

“It’s very simple when you are drilling a hole in the ground 400-500 feet deep, as you build up weight pushing down, wherever you are, under sand, whatever formation, maybe a dry formation of sand, then it’s gonna go into it. It will follow the path of least resistance. When you hit a cavity or honeycomb caliche, everything goes south on ya. Simple as it is. Especially if you weight it up, lose return, sometimes you just have to abandon the hole.”

What this water well driller is referring to is what the scientific world calls "heterogeneous fabric", meaning that many variations of the soil beneath us exist, including the well known water-bearing gravel beds of Victoria County. If an unknown gravel bed were to exist adjacent to an injection zone, the fluid under pressure could migrate to and saturate the gravel bed. If this were to happen, the probability of recovery would be greatly reduced. In other words, once it's gone then it's gone. To whose well? Your guess is as good as anyone's.

...still looking for good news regarding uranium mining, still haven't found any.

Remember Goliad! That was a cry from the Texas Revolution to rally the troops at San Jacinto. Remember Goliad may very well become the modern day cry for the revolution to beat back the corporate invaders who are bent on raping our land for a quick, short term profit.

Others have already documented the valid concerns and dangers that uranium mining poses to our water, our land, and our very survival as a viable and livable community. The risks inherit in mining uranium are real and demonstrable in Texas communities where they have already mined.

I acknowledge that in-situ uranium can be done safely, but not every company who engages in uranium mining has in the past, or will in the future, spend the additional money it requires to do so. That important fact leaves our fate in the hands of the regulators, individual land owners, and the different companies engaged in the actual mining process. No doubt that UEC will do hand springs to see that their test wells and initial uranium recovery will be done in a quasi safe manner they will showcase. What comes later will be shady operators looking to make a easy fast buck by cutting corners and greedy landowners who have recently bought or inherited their land and no longer are one with land like their forefathers were. Once the door is open to uranium mining there will be a flood of mining all over the area. Uranium mining will spread like army worms and metastasize like a virulent virus.

Texas is a state that is dominated by corporate interests to the determent of ordinary citizens. Our courts, governor, and legislature have become prostitutes to corporate interests. The regulators will do what the governor tells them to do. UEC will get the permit unless the people rally and fight this menace. Let the cry go out again, REMEMBER GOLIAD! Let the battle be joined. If UEC means to have a war, then let it begin here!

TCEQ draws something close to $320,000 in non-refundable application fee. If this permit is denied, who would ever apply for one again? What is TCEQ supposed to say? "Thanks for the cash!...See ya!"???

The contested case hearing is set for early January. Even then, the Aquifer Exemption will have to be granted by EPA Region 6 in Dallas.

The company describes Texas as a "fast-track permitting" state compared to other states and that no federal permitting is required. EPA did clarify that although the Aquifer Exemption must be granted by EPA, it is not a "permit" so technically they're correct.

How can EPA "exempt" a portion of an aquifer that supplies drinking water? This is going to be interesting.

I noticed that uranium dropped $2.50 per pound yesterday. I hear Canadian Cameco has 550 metric tons of cheap uranium yellowcake from Iraq that our government not only gave away, but spent $70,000,000 transporting it for them.

How important is the Goliad uranium? Not very important to most, very important to a select few. Beach house in Cabo, condo in Colorado. Yeah, that's worth an aquifer or two.