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Uranium mining threatens Hualapai, Havasupai and Navajo nations, and tourism industry

Salazar’s decision to halt new uranium claims would be consistent with permanent bans by Hualapai, Havasupai and Navajo nations on their lands that surround the park….mining is a minor part of northern Arizona’s economy (unlike tourism at the Grand Canyon,

Uranium mining would hurt Grand Canyon area, The Arizona Republic, Tom Chabin,  28 Feb 2011, FLAGSTAFF — I support Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s proposed 20-year ban on new mining claims on public-land watersheds that drain into Grand Canyon National Park. Continue reading →

March 1, 2011 Posted by | indigenous issues, Uranium, USA | 2 Comments

133 Native Chiefs oppose shipment of radioactive reactor parts across Great Lakes

Ontario chiefs oppose nuclear shipments The Sarnia Observer – Ontario, CA, 26 Feb 2011, A collective of 133 First Nations chiefs in Ontario has restated its objection to the shipment of 16 decommissioned nuclear steam generators through the Great Lakes. During the Chiefs of Ontario annual health forum on Tuesday, an emergency meeting was called by Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee. On Feb. 4, Bruce Power was authorized by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to transport the shipment…….Ontario chiefs oppose nuclear shipments – The Sarnia Observer – Ontario, CA

February 27, 2011 Posted by | Canada, indigenous issues, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Preserve St Lawrence River from radioactive risk – say Mohawks

“The [River] provides drinking water to some 40 million people,” says Kahnawà:ke Grand Chief Michael Ahrihron Delisle, Jr., in the joint statement issued February 9. “But for us, it’s much more than that. If there is an accident, there is no place for us to go.”

The Mohawk people have been living in the area of the Seaway for at least 9,000 years – and they’re still there today.

Mohawk Communities Oppose Nuclear Waste Shipment ,  GroundReport by  John Schertow February 14, 2011 The Mohawk Councils of Kahnawà:ke, Tyendinaga and Akwesasne have issued a joint statement rejecting the shipment of nuclear waste through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway system.On Feb. 4, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC),  gave Bruce Power one full year to get 16 containers filled with radioactive waste to Sweden, where the waste can be recycled. Continue reading →

February 16, 2011 Posted by | Canada, indigenous issues | Leave a comment

Warning on uranium mining from Navajo speaker

mining firms “scoured the land” looking for ore deposits, Tohe said. They hired local workers, Navajos and Pueblos, to enter the mines, where radioactive dust settled into miners’ clothes before they went home and contaminated their families, Tohe said.

“The workers were never told that this was dangerous,” Tohe said……There may be short-term jobs, but the mining industry is susceptible to the market,”…“The communities are held hostage by the boom and bust cycle,”

Anti-uranium mining activist speaks out on project | GoDanRiver.com, 7 Feb 2011, If uranium is mined and milled at Coles Hill in Pittsylvania County, what happened in the U.S. West could happen in Chatham, Continue reading →

February 8, 2011 Posted by | indigenous issues, Uranium, USA | Leave a comment

Legal technicality leaves Navajo no redress for uranium contaminated land

The Navajo Nation only became aware that the two sites nearby were also contaminated in the early 2000s.

Federal Appeals Court Rules DOE Not Responsible for Navajo Uranium Cleanup By LAWRENCE HURLEY, NYTimes.com January 28, 2011 A federal appeals court ruled today that the Department of Energy does not have to remediate two sites on Navajo Nation land that are adjacent to an old uranium mine. Continue reading →

January 29, 2011 Posted by | indigenous issues, Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Navajo victims of uranium mining

why should they [the Navajo] be victimized from another wave of uranium mining?”

A legacy of uranium, a prayer for healing | The Salt Lake Tribune, by Judy Fahys, 2 Jan 2011, Monument Valley, Utah • The sickness in Elsie Mae Begay’s family troubled her for a long time. So she turned to a Navajo medicine man.The healer took measure of the family settlement here and told her the poison was in the dust kicked up by the wind that sometimes rips through the desert. In years to come, environmental scientists for the tribe and the U.S. government would confirm that diagnosis in their own way, saying the family was at risk from radiation left over from uranium at the Skyline Mine on the mesa above the homes…….. Continue reading →

January 2, 2011 Posted by | indigenous issues, USA | Leave a comment

Hanford nuclear wastes – shameful injustice to the Yakama tribe

Some 400 billion gallons of liquid wastes were dumped into the [Hanford] soil — enough to create a poisonous lake the size of Manhattan Island — 80 feet deep. Enormous groundwater plumes containing radioactive and other hazardous wastes are migrating into the river….…..the Federal government has a moral and legal trust responsibility to ensure that tribal treaty resources are protected and that the health of tribal people is not being harmed

Endangerment Near a Nuclear Weapons Site. THE HUFFINGTON POST , Robert Alvarez, 17 Dec 10, Yesterday President Obama held a meeting with the leaders of indigenous people in the U.S. One important issue is the fact that tribal people, because of their subsistence lifestyle, are the most vulnerable group of humans to environmental contaminants. Continue reading →

December 18, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, USA | Leave a comment

Indigenous peoples bypassed at Cancun Climate Change conference

….Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). pays lip service to indigenous land tenure and practices, while often undermining and even prohibiting them.

The Missing Delegate at Cancún: Indigenous Peoples, NatGeo News Watch, 10 Dec 10, As nearly 200 delegates gather at the Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico, writer Dennis Martinez points out that Indigenous peoples and their advocates have no official seat among nations, and yet have experienced the worst impacts of climate change. Continue reading →

December 10, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, climate change, indigenous issues | Leave a comment

Nuclear company will pay to ‘educate’ Saskatchewan Indian Nations about Nuclear Wastes

The money comes from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, the group created by Canada’s nuclear electricity industry to find a new home for nuclear fuel waste.

Nuclear group gives First Nations $1M for meetings, November 18, 2010  CBC News The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations has been given $1 million to hold information sessions on nuclear waste storage, but environmentalists are leery about the idea. Continue reading →

November 19, 2010 Posted by | Canada, indigenous issues, spinbuster | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Toxic uranium spill still affecting Navajo in New Mexico

People still remember, in part because of lingering illnesses they attribute to the spill,…People got compensated quickly at Three Mile Island – around here, I don’t think anyone got compensated for anything,

Uranium spill elicits traditional approach,  Indian Country Today By Carol Berry,  Oct 19, 2010 CHURCH ROCK, N.M. – About 10 miles north of this predominantly Navajo community, Highway 566 transects Red Water Pond Road, which is blocked at the entrance to an abandoned United Nuclear Corp. mine site from which nearly 1 million gallons of toxic wastewater spilled into the nearby Puerco River 31 years ago. Continue reading →

October 19, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, Uranium, USA | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Native Americans lead the way in Solar Energy Education

Native Americans ….. lead the five groups of recipients taking advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (also known as ARRA, or the stimulus) and as a result eligible for the IREC awards.

Native Americans Turn to Solar Energy, CALFINDER  15 Oct 10, In an interesting show of how established solar energy has become, on Monday Oct 12October 12, the New York-based Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) gave one of its 2010 Innovation Awards to Lakota Solar Enterprises, a renewable energy company owned entirely by Native Americans and located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Continue reading →

October 15, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, USA | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Mohawks join opposition to shipment of nuclear wastes over Great Lakes

Mohawks will not stand for nuclear shipment By Michelle Lalonde, Montreal Gazette September 30, 2010 The Mohawk community of Kahnawake is determined to stop a plan by Ontario’s Bruce Power to ship 16 massive steam generators from its nuclear facility in southwestern Ontario along the St. Lawrence Seaway for recycling in Sweden.”The fact that the Seaway was built through our territory without our approval in the first place is bad enough,” said Clinton Phillips, the chief responsible for environmental issues on the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake.

“To use it to transport nuclear waste literally through our backyard would be adding insult to injury in a huge way. There is absolutely no way we’ll stand for it.”……………

October 1, 2010 Posted by | Canada, indigenous issues | , , , , , | Leave a comment

International church group slams Australia’s Aboriginal Intervention

“The Intervention has taken control of the lives of Aboriginal peoples through such measures as compulsory income management and compulsory acquisition of leases over Aboriginal land.

“The Labor Government has continued the Intervention which remains a blight on Australia’s reputation.”

Territory shame The Catholic Leader: : 26 September 2010By: Paul Dobbyn AUSTRALIA’S “shameful treatment” of indigenous people in remote Northern Territory communities has been exposed during a six-day fact-finding mission by local and international visitors, Continue reading →

September 23, 2010 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, indigenous issues | , , | Leave a comment

Radiation poisoning of Navajo due to uranium mining

The Church Rock flood is only one incident among many in the “slow-motion disaster” investigative journalist Judy Pasternak comprehensively recounts in her chilling new book, “Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed.”

“Yellow Dirt”: Radioactive reservation, The shocking story of how industry and government poisoned and then abandoned the Navajo Nation, Salon.com,  Laura Miller, 19 Sept 10,

In the summer of 1979, an earthen dam over the town of Church Rock, Utah, broke, flooding the arroyo below and then the bed of the Rio Puerco (an intermittent stream) on the southern border of the Navajo Nation. It was a small flood, but a dangerous one. It burned the feet of a boy who stepped into it, and caused sheep and crops along the banks to drop dead. That’s because the pond it came from had been used by a nearby uranium mine to store the tailings (residue) of its excavations — the water kept the radioactive dust from blowing away. The 93 million gallons of contaminated water that poured into the Rio Puerco remains the largest accidental release of radioactive material in U.S. history, bigger than the notorious Three Mile Island reactor meltdown that occurred 14 weeks later. Continue reading →

September 20, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, resources - print, Uranium, USA | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

BHP Billiton, starts with potash – then on to uranium mining.

by Christina Macpherson, 21 Aug 2010.  International mining giant BHP Billiton has an agenda for world-wide uranium mining leadership, as well as a history of world-wide inadequate treatment of indigenous people.

Unable to convince Australian Aborigines of the value to them of uranium mining, and radioactive waste tailings on their land, BHP still hopes to convince Canadian indigenous peoples of their bounty to them – promising jobs (mining) etc.

BHP Billiton touts city Mining firm sees Saskatoon as potash centre By Cassandra Kyle, The StarPhoenix August 20, 2010 The world’s biggest mining company will work to make Saskatoon an international potash hub if it wins its bid to acquire Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., BHP Billiton said Thursday…..
Mackenzie acknowledged in the telephone interview that while potash is BHP Billiton’s priority, it has “not ruled out” the development of any of Saskatchewan’s other resources, which include uranium, diamonds, gold, coal and rare earth elements. “We obviously play in many commodities and I think from time to time we do look in a small way at uranium,” he said…
BHP Billiton is starting an advertising program today in an attempt to convince PotashCorp shareholders to accept its takeover offer.

BHP Billiton touts city

August 21, 2010 Posted by | Canada, indigenous issues, Uranium | , , , , | 1 Comment

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