Would Biden really shut down our uranium production?

Back in 2017, Donald Trump did one of the more admirable, anti-federalist acts of any president in recent memory when he slashed the size of the Bears Ears and National Staircase Escalante national monuments, returning the land to the control of the states. It was one of the few of Trump’s sweeping policies that Joe Biden didn’t attempt to reverse via executive orders upon taking office. (He waited until later in the year to reverse and expand the monuments beyond their original size.) But now Biden is once again looking at going in the opposite direction as he considers a plan to create what would be the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona. The proposed Native American monument would cover more than one million acres of land. While the indigenous people of the region should certainly have a voice in this debate, the creation of this monument would be disastrous for the country’s energy grid in the future. Those lands contain the richest deposits of uranium in our country and ongoing mining operations that could power many new nuclear reactors for the coming century or more. But if the land is designated as a national monument, all mining operations aside from the single existing uranium mine in the region will be banned. (National Review)Read More