Editorial: Threat of uranium mine in gated Colorado neighborhood drives home risk of split estates

Elk graze in a meadow near the front of the South T Bar Ranch community outside of Cañon City. The meadow is one of the sites where an Australian company wants to conduct exploratory drilling for uranium. (Photo provided by Skip Blades) South T Bar Ranch is a cautionary tale for Coloradans. Beware the split estate.

Colorado law allows for surface rights of land to be split from sub-surface mineral rights. Most commonly, conflict arises in Colorado’s natural gas-rich Denver-Julesburg Basin, where the Front Range sprawl north of Denver has landed subdivisions above mineral rights owned by major corporations planning or already using hydraulic fracturing to extract the gas.

South T Bar Ranch, located northwest of Cañon City, could become a nightmare situation for homeowners compared to the problems presented with hydraulic fracturing. Even modern uranium mining — known as ablation — causes a significant disruption to surface land, although companies […]

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