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Article: Tailings aren't hot topic
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2009
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MOAB -- Sort through the river runners, rock climbers, base
jumpers, mountain bikers, four wheelers and the Europeans on their
way to national parks, skip right past the environmental activists
and politicians, and steer clear of anyone affiliated with the
company that's fixing to make $100 million hauling the dirt to
Crescent Junction, and when you finally run into a longtime local
and ask them what they think of moving the mountain of uranium
tailings from the edge of town, they look at you with a kind of
bemused stare.
They're not sorry to see it go, but the problem hasn't been
keeping them up nights, either.
I walked down Moab's Center Street and found three "locals" to
talk to.
The ...