To: dara who wrote (157220 ) 5/7/2009 1:40:01 AM From: marcos Respond to of 312821 When the locals are dead-set against something neither party here could get away with pushing it through ... i don't know much about what uranium plays were likely in the near future, think there was only one, in the Kootenays? ... hippie haven over there, bean-sprouting draft dodgers, probably associate anything nuclear with McCarthy and smelly bomb shelters from the cold war ... can't talk to them anyway unless you learn that new-age bafflegab, and careful not to inhale when you're close up trying Kemess North involved pumping tailings into Duncan Lake, the local indians have another name for the lake, and feel attached to it the way it is, such is life, it's almost like they've developed some kind of rights having hung out around it for a few thousands of years ... they have a website you can find by googling with appropriate search terms, of course for indians you have to substitute that new-age 'first nations' bullshit, regardless of whether in fact they are the fifth or seventeenth 'nation' on the site We don't want any mine within five or ten miles of this house in which i am typing, thank you very much, only partly because it is not mining country, but also because the area is special and we like it very much the way it is ... up that valley, or that one over there, or behind any of those mountains, fill your boots ... provided of course that you do not foul anyone's air or water supply, nor offend our sensitive eyeballs with gross gouges in Gaia the Mother ... and keep it quiet over there, we're meditating ... you'll want to vote Liberal to have even half a chance, they're crooks and real cliquey but the other yahoos won't even let you think about mining