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Whose Uranium Will Be Used At The Proposed New Mexico Enrichment Facility?
By James
Guess what? Our recent investigation shows the uranium to be enriched in the LES/Urenco proposed enrichment facility in Lea County, New may come neither from uranium properties in New nor anywhere else in the United States. Just as New Mexico's nuclear/uranium mining renaissance was ready to get underway, a deal may have already been cut to enrich uranium mined in a foreign country. Louisiana Energy Services (LES), through the consortium's general partner Urenco Ltd., may have struck a deal with Canadian-based Cameco Corp. Will this uranium come from Canada or Kazakhstan?
According to New State Senator Carroll H. Leavell, the uranium ore to be enriched at the facility near Eunice, New facility would be coming from outside the United States. Senator Leavell told StockInterview, "The uranium ore will be coming out of Saskatchewan." When we asked if the uranium to be enriched in New would come from the Athabasca Basin, an area hosting the world's richest grades of uranium and which is also located in northern Saskatchewan, Senator Leavell claimed he wasn't sure where the Athabasca Basin was. But he told us that Urenco Ltd informed him the uranium was coming from that western Canadian province.
We can only speculate the uranium producer might be Cameco Corp. On July 22, 2002, Cameco signed a Memorandum of Agreement with LES, along with Urenco Ltd, Westinghouse Electric Company, Fluor Daniel and the affiliates of U.S. utilities: Exelon, Duke and Entergy. In an email response to our inquiry, earlier this week, Netherlands-based Urenco Ltd Communications Coordinator April Wildegose-Mistry informed us, "Cameco Corp was part of the original LES project. They pulled out around March 2003 as they needed to focus on other business issues."
We have also asked to interview Urenco's CEO. Perhaps he may clarify this matter for us. One industry insider told us Cameco stated its continued support for the LES initiative after it withdrew as a partner. However, the recent joint venture company, Enrichment Technology Company, formed by Areva and Urenco may open the possibility the uranium could also come from Areva's uranium interests in Athabasca. AREVA is a Paris-based company offering technological solutions for nuclear power generation, and electricity transmission and distribution.
This development could further irritate at least one New legislator. State representative John A. Heaton from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and who also sits on New Mexico's Energy and Natural Resource Committee, was adamant about U.S. independence from foreign energy sources. He told StockInterview, "We need to use the assets we have and not be dependent upon foreign countries. I worry a lot about the dependence we have on other countries."
In this instance, Heaton might be getting a double-whammy of foreign dependence. Not only is Urenco Ltd a foreign-owned and controlled company (a Dutch/ British/German
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