A Letter to the Daily Sentinel (Denver)During Sunday mornings I go through the local newspapers in the Denver area to see if I could find anything recent relating to the Pinon Ridge mill. I am in for the long run, and I do not have time to go in and out of this stock. We took a hit this week and I am not sure why, but it seems many of the Uranium companies did the same. I heard the price of the spot price went down. Nevertheless, like I said I am confident in this company and have invested quite a bit and hope to see it start producing soon.
Mill lawsuit is typical of environmentalists. Recently, the environmentalist group Sheep Mountain Alliance filed another lawsuit to stop the proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill west of Naturita. Sheep Mountain Alliance is a well-funded radical environmentalist group from Telluride, over 70-miles away from the proposed mill. The locals in the West End of Montrose County, where the mill will actually be built, overwhelmingly support this project. Earlier this month, a Montrose judge dismissed Sheep Mountain Alliance’s laughable lawsuit against Montrose County. Now, the group is off to Denver to find another judge. This is how the modern “environmental” movement works. Often they can’t win on the facts or the science or at the ballot box. Their lobbyists can’t even convince liberal lawmakers to support their cause. So, they’ve hired high-powered lawyers to continue their fight in court. It doesn’t matter if they win or not. They simply want to make companies spend more money and cause more delays. They hope they can starve companies of resources and discourage future companies from trying to build new projects that don’t conform to their radical, anti-community agendas. We all know their lawsuit is meritless. Unfortunately, the system is rigged in their favor. They know they can pay their mercenary lawyers a few hundred thousand dollars to push their agenda in court. In exchange, their tactics will obstruct hundreds of millions of dollars of private investment. They don’t care that the hundreds of millions will create jobs, tax revenues and energy. This is the real tragedy of the modern environmental movement. They want to foist their radical agenda on the rest of us any way they can. The only way they can do it is in the courtroom. Let’s hope good judges dismiss their lawsuits quickly — again.JACQUE STAFFORD Grand Junction