“Someone put a stop to this before it is too late!” wrote Betty Primer of Wellington in a recent letter to the editor of the Fort Collins Coloradoan (Stop Uranium Mine). That someone can be you but you need to act. Unless you express your concerns to our county commissioners and local and state lawmakers and encourage them to change outdated mining laws and a permitting process that does not afford sufficient protection to our precious ground water then we will have a uranium mine in northern Colorado.

Fort Collins Now traveled to Goliad, Texas to find out how ranchers and grandmothers are trying to stop a newly formed company from extracting uranium from the ground using their groundwater (sound familiar). The water turns bad, they say, when the mining company drills exploration wells nearby. For a glimpse of a possible future for northern Colorado if Powertech Uranium Corporation is allowed to proceed with their plans for a uranium mine near Nunn, read on.

For years, Fort Collins and other communities in northern Colorado have placed high on various lists of the best places to live in the U.S. However, as the prospects increase for uranium mining just north of Fort Collins you can expect the following comment from Fred and Lin Esposito in Moraga, CA to be more indicative of a new image for Fort Collins:

We were planning to move to the Fort Collins area in June. We were going to buy a small horse boarding property. Now, I don't think we will go near that area at all. Please fight that one (uranium mine) with everthing you have. Just wrong, Sorry to hear this bad news. Lin and Fred.

This comment was published with the recent article in the Loveland Reporter-Herald: Mine opposition has say - Petition gains 5,700 signees. For a related article, see Mine prompts sanctuary to look for new home.