Gyro, Roland wasn't fired from Exxon. He was fired from URI in Kingsville when he attempted to stop illegal injection into the aquifer. His racial discrimination complaint arose from being accused of not being a "team player". He was sprayed by the crop duster early one morning while attempting to shut down the injection pumps.

The ore bodies in Goliad County are not under the water sands. They are IN the water sands, from 45 to 450 feet deep. Again, this is the recharge zone of the Evangeline Aquifer. When they tell me "no guarantees" regarding excursions and irreversible contamination of neighboring water wells to my face, this does not leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling.

Roland and I both agree that In Situ mining can be done in a safe and responsible manner in some instances. He claims that Kingsville is one of those instances but also that Goliad is NOT because of the unpredictable fabric of the soil underground coupled with the typically unreliable nature of uranium miners. The proposed Goliad Project is in the recharge zone of the Evangeline Aquifer which feeds Victoria.

Rollinstone, I inserted the Panna Maria video to show what this priest has to say about the nature of uranium miners. He says they lie, and lie, and lie lie lie lie lie.... I understand your point, but if anyone has done any research at all then they, like you, would realize that Father Frank wasn't referring to In Situ mining at all but rather the nature of uranium miners in general.

Incidentally, the uranium processing plant is currently being refurbished in Panna Maria for the processing of uranium yellowcake. The piles of radioactive dump waste from years gone by are still there.

Roland has become the poster boy for the Sierra Club and other anti-nuclear activists.

http://sccagainsturanium.blogspot.com/

You know, Roland looks thirsty someone get Roland a beer, uh...er maybe a keg.

I grew up in Karnes County, never heard any complaint or well contamination for the 17 years I was there.

Still wondering about what kind of racial discrimation complaint the man filed. And what the beef was in Karnes County?

Some of the mines in he Panna Maria area are less than 200 ft deep. Any water well drilled thru this formation with uncemented casing can be contaminated with fluids from the uranium sections. There are a lot of private water wells on ranches etc that have been there way before uranium was ever known. Victoria and Goliad County I know nothing about. If the uranium strata is below a water sand the injections wells are drilled through a water sand and the casing is properly cemented there should be no contamination.

Gyro said,
"The mines in Karnes County are open pit and very shallow."

Not all of the mines in Karnes County are open pits Gyro. If you head out toward Fashing and Coy City they are mines. Toward Falls City and Panna Maria and Hobson areas they are open pits.

After being fired, he filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission.

From his looks on You Tube Burrows is obviously an Anglo. I wonder just what kind of "racial discrimination" did he claim to receive? That he was terminated because he was not a minority?

The mines in Karnes County are open pit and very shallow. There must be hundreds of water wells as deep or deeper than the formations being mined, with uncemented casing. Nothing to keep fluid from the uranium rich formation from reaching.

Some time right after WW2 they were actually claiming that soaking your feet in uranium rich soil would cure arthritis In Karnes Co they had long sheds with benches along the wall. They charged people to sit with teir feet in troughs of uranium rich soil. Life Magazine had Picture story about it.

Who is an expert? What does it take to be an expert?

Asbestos training consists of a one hour course. After the end of that course, which I have taken, I can be listed as an expert. Why? Simply because there is 0% variation in the facts of the matter; one part per million is lethal 100% of the time. That part of the instruction can be said in less than a minute. The rest is about prevention of inhalation and the results of inhalation. Very simple.

"In situ leach" mining of uranium is equally simple. One hour and you can become an expert. The course would consist of; uranium is a heavy, solid ore and does not flow; uranium, once dissolved will flow just like iron(that's why the term "leach" is used); to mine for uranium in a drinking water aquifer is illegal.
Those are the scientific and legal facts of the matter. They are established facts beyond dispute. If you know those facts you are now as much of an expert as you need to be to determine whether uranium mining should be allowed in Goliad or Victoria Counties.

Come on! Panna Maria was an open pit mine not an in-situ mine for gosh sakes. You need to quit blowing smoke up everyone's @#$ and stick with the facts.

A former Marine

And this makes the man an expert on insitu mining?

The so called story was posted in a blog in the SA Current. The Current is a giveaway sheet. They claim a circulation of 45000 That means they put that many out ever week. Who knows what the fate of most the rags are? The so called whistle blower has a long term grievance against Exxon.Burrows was fired from his job and file a compalint

Burrows says he tried at the time to get the TNRCC (now the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) and the FBI involved, to no avail. After being fired, he filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission.

Nothing was said about the outcome of his complaint

Roland Burrows worked for Uranium Resources, Inc., as a wellfield operator at the Kingsville Dome in-situ uranium mine in Ricardo, Texas, back in 1996.
Which position doesn't really take much "expert" knowledge

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Hmm...no response yet. Are these people "new style of terrorists" also? A former Marine and a Catholic Priest. Y'all better wake up and start listening. This is serious.