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Radiation contamination in Grand Canyon

Uranium Mining Threatens Grand Canyon Communities | Truthout Cathie Bird, 14 April 11, Over a thousand uranium mines have al­ready con­taminated water ac­ross the Southwest, poison­ing com­munit­ies with radia­tion that leads to canc­er, harm­ing the bi­odivers­ity of riv­ers and dis­sipat­ing toxic ore dust into the air. De­spite the im­measur­able damage the mess of these ab­an­doned mines has in­flic­ted, in­clud­ing the of­fici­al de­sig­na­tion of the Four Cor­n­ers as a “nation­al sac­rifice area,” the feder­al govern­ment and foreign min­ing com­pan­ies want to con­tinue uranium min­ing in the Grand Canyon… Uranium Mining Threatens Grand Canyon Communities | Truthout – MicroHawk’s NewsScan

April 14, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, USA