In my Daily Press column this week, I make the case for uranium mining in Virginia.
We made a mistake with oil by not acting. Drilling and exploration should be happening off our coast now as Libyan uncertainty pushes gas prices towards $4 again. Yet we remain mostly dependent on uranium from foreign sources — an arguably more vital energy source not just for electricity, but national security.
Let us not make the same mistake with uranium that we did with oil.
Read the rest of the column [1] in the Daily Press.