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Matt Redd Monticello rancher, photo by Aaron Huey
November 2018 issue of National Geographic |
Though dozens of local people were interviewed over
the course of several weeks by author Hannah Nordhaus, very little was used in the actual article from those interviews. The editing staff
at Nat’l Geo was part of that dilemma, and the real story was bigger than a
single article could cover. Maps and photographs were great. Sandy Johnson was one of several ranchers who were interviewed. (Photos were by Aaron Huey who made at least 4 or more trips to San Juan)
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Energy Fuels White Mesa Uranium Mill--Aaron Huey photo
Kyle Kimmele, one of many SE Utah citizens who own mining leases. Photo by Aaron Huey |
“One of many comments made by businesses
impacted by foreign suppliers of uranium: “The US uranium industry has suffered
great harm and our national security is threatened as a result of excessive
imports of foreign uranium. The United States over reliance on price
insensitive uranium from countries like Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with
their state-owned and funded companies, has displaced US production and led to
a severe decline in the industry. As a service provider to the US uranium
industry, this has also hurt our business.”
~~Write-In Candidates for County Commissioner—Districts 2 and 3
2) Democrat
Maryleen Tahy running as write-in District 2
“Public lands management is an
area that we certainly do not agree on. I prefer local management of local
resources and I rely on constitutional provisions that guarantee that even a
state like Utah has an equal footing with other states. Federal agencies are
creating massive problems to which they claim to be the solution. It is time for Utah to end the
madness. We are not a federal administrative unit, but a sovereign and
independent State; sometimes we have to act like it.
I have never been accused of being neutral on
matters of public land, fiscal responsibility, or political accountability. The
State Legislature has the duty to safeguard these qualities and to safeguard
the liberty of the people against federal encroachment, not the reverse for
which Ms. Holland seems to advocate.”
“Any legislation that
I am involved in is going to emphasize less government interference with
people’s lives and more accountability from government agencies. If I could
figure out legislation to rein in the federal agencies and put them in their
proper jurisdictional role instead of this god-like role that they think they
have, I would do that.” Recapture
Incident: “A mistake that I made was believing that the federal
agencies had integrity and that the department of justice believed that a
person was innocent until proven guilty. And that the U.S. attorneys followed that
same ideology.”
~~Kelly Laws
Running for County Commissioner in District 3
By Phil
Lyman
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