Manson, N.C. — As legislation that would allow uranium mining in Virginia advances through that state’s legislature, opposition to the move is growing in North Carolina.
A group of Virginia lawmakers voted Monday to approve a bill that would lift a 31-year-old ban on uranium mining and allow the practice in Chatham, Va., where a 119 million-pound deposit of uranium – the $7 billion vein is the largest in the U.S. – is located.
The bill now goes to the full legislature, which convenes Wednesday.
“North Carolina will be fighting this,” Deborah Ferruccio, who lives near Kerr Lake in Warren County, said Tuesday.
The uranium mine would be about 40 miles from the headwaters of Kerr Lake, and residents fear waste could flow into the lake, which is also used as a drinking water source.
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