During the 2008 spring semester, students in Colorado State's Journalism and Technical Communication course, Communication and Evaluation Research Methods, undertook a class project to examine citizen concerns about the uranium mine proposed for the area between Nunn and Wellington, Colo. When asked if individuals had made their minds up on the issue one way or another, very few respondents were in favor of the mining operation, at 5 percent; about 20 percent reported they were undecided, while a majority, or 74 percent, said they were against it.

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A company seeking to operate three uranium mines in northern Arizona has been denied a key state permit for two mines, near Tusayan and north of the Grand Canyon. Amid field hearings and congressional legislation proposing to put the area around the Grand Canyon off-limits to uranium mining, this is the first real roadblock to the first proposed uranium mining in Arizona in this decade.

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Ranchers and rural residents in northeast Wyoming say they've seen the brochure on how uranium producers perform in-situ leach mining. What they don't know is how it's going to work in their neighborhood, with the soils and aquifers under their homes. The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality has fielded numerous questions in recent weeks following a recent report documenting a long history of violations at Cameco Corp.'s Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ uranium mine in Converse County.

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