Uranium firm lobbied to have Bears Ears National Monument scaled back
William Paul Goranson
The company's vice president of operations   William Paul Goranson   joined Wheeler and two other lobbyists  including former congresswoman Mary Bono  R-Calif.  to discuss Bears Ears in a July 17 meeting with two top Zinke advisers.
 Goranson  said Friday that the session with Downey Magallanes  who oversaw the monuments review and serves as Zinke's deputy chief of staff for policy  and Vincent De Vito  his energy policy counselor  was focused on fairly narrow issues.
Company officials "were trying to get a sense of what was going on" with the review because some of their air and water quality monitoring stations and a road leading to the now-dormant Daneros mine all lay within the original monument   Goranson  explained.
But  Goranson  said  he  and other company officials are "confident" that the construction of nuclear plants in Asia and elsewhere  along with other factors  will eventually push prices higher and justify reopening the Daneros mine.
The company's vice president of operations    [TGT]    joined Wheeler and two other lobbyists  including former congresswoman Mary Bono  R-Calif.  to discuss Bears Ears in a July 17 meeting with two top Zinke advisers.
 Goranson  said Friday that the session with Downey Magallanes  who oversaw the monuments review and serves as Zinke's deputy chief of staff for policy  and Vincent De Vito  his energy policy counselor  was focused on fairly narrow issues.
Company officials "were trying to get a sense of what was going on" with the review because some of their air and water quality monitoring stations and a road leading to the now-dormant Daneros mine all lay within the original monument   Goranson  explained.
But  Goranson  said  he  and other company officials are "confident" that the construction of nuclear plants in Asia and elsewhere  along with other factors  will eventually push prices higher and justify reopening the Daneros mine.