"Uranium Drive-In," a documentary film now available on DVD, follows the plight of a proposed uranium mill in rural Montrose County, Colo., offering "an honest look at people facing matters of rural poverty, sustainable development and the long reach of environmental advocacy," Natalie Axton reports for the Daily Yonder. The mill would provide jobs to residents in Nucla, where 17 percent of people live below the poverty line, and Naturita, where 10 percent of people live below the poverty line.
Filmmaker Suzan Beraza told Axton that the residents "are between a rock and a hard place, and they are willing to make
sacrifices in order to survive. They don't see the uranium industry as
being that dangerous. It's something they are very used to; their
families have been doing it for generations. It's not that the people
there necessarily want the uranium industry. They just want something. And that's when it became more clear that it was a rural issue. That
thousands of small towns across the United States are in a similar
situation, whether it’s a resource extraction town or a town where the
major industry has left."
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