Salazar extends uranium moratorium six months

Kane County Commissioners were surprised Monday morning to receive word that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is possibly attempt to close downward all present and future uranium mining operation on the Arizona Strip. This act would result in a $30 billion loss to the economy of southern Utah and northern Arizona. It would also remove the possibility of up to 4,000 new jobs.

The commissioners were only given an hour and a half observe before an publication was made by Salazar at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon extend for six months the “temporary withdrawal” which has been in outcome for almost two years. Salazar also announces that at the conclusion of the addition he prefers to withdraw all mining actions on the Arizona Strip.

Commission Chairman Doug Heaton thought of Secretary Salazar’s announcement, “The Secretary took the basic same move toward that was taken years ago by President Clinton in the making of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. He stretched the law to cater to radical environmental group who are different to multiple uses of any public lands.”