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The cancellation of Marline’s leases in northern Virginia does not mean the end of uranium exploration in this area, metallurgist Ted Scott told members of Rappahannock’s Izaak Walton League at their annual dinner meeting last Saturday at the Corner Post in Flint Hill.
‘‘Other companies are buying up gas, oil and mineral rights,” Scott said. “As uranium prices go up, uranium exploration will increase.”
Scott is a board member of the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) and one of the authors of PEC’s report, Uranium: a Virginia Concern. Marline’s interest in local mineral rights has been a matter of concern to PEC for some time. -Marline officials recently announced cancellation of their leases and their intent to concentrate on uranium exploration in Pittsylvania County in the Danville basin, where substantial exploratory drilling has already takgP place. Company spokesmen cited consolidation .or resources as a reason for cancellation locally, but opposition here has been much stronger than in southern Virginia.
Scott’s talk before the group gave an overview of the beginnings of uranium exploration in Virginia. The government began extensive exploration in this and many other areas as an outgrowth of the severe energy crisis of . 1973-74. “Then, in 1980, a number of us became aware of helicopters flying around Northern Virginia,” Scott said. “It was Marline.”
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