Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

It is with a degree of dismay that I read Rod Knudson’s recent letter to the editor in your newspaper. Why a citizen of these United States would cast fear mongering aspersions on the proposed rare element mine and processing plant and help keep the United States beholden to our potential enemy, China, is beyond me. Mr. Knudson purports to be somewhat of an authority on the chemistry and mechanics of producing rare elements yet this is dispelled by his erroneous claim that the proposed mine will occupy 9,000 acres when the actual figure is much closer to 900 acres. The front-page...