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Radioactive legacy continues to affect Navajo people

Toxic legacy for tribes, High Country News, Caitlin Sislin | Mar 26, 2010 Earlier this month, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals approved a controversial permit for uranium mining operations at sites in Church Rock, New Mexico. The operation includes a site associated with the largest release of liquid radioactive waste in United States History — a catastrophe which continues, a generation later, to negatively impact the lives and health of Navajo people residing near the spill site. Continue reading →

March 27, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, USA, water | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

American Indian tribes may develop renewable energy

Report: Tribes key in renewable energy development, Google News, By FELICIA FONSECA (AP) – 24 March 2010, FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — American Indian tribes have huge potential to develop renewable energy resources on their lands but first must overcome a number of challenges, namely financial, according to a report released Tuesday. Continue reading →

March 25, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Foreign uranium companies continue to rip off Niger’s poor

The neocolonial secret agreements giving Areva below-market prices mean that very little of the wealth from Niger’s uranium remains in the country.

Niger’s uranium coup, boilingspot: 7 March 2010 On February 18, Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja was overthrown in a military coup. A military junta calling itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, headed by Major Salou Djibo, took powerTony Iltis | Green Left Online | 6 March 2010 “……the junta is unlikely to confront the causes of Niger’s extreme poverty: Western-imposed neoliberal austerity and the environmentally and socially destructive plunder of natural resources, particularly uranium………….the coup ensures that political power remains with the same military officer caste from which Tandja came……. Continue reading →

March 8, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, Niger | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Marshall Islanders fear return to nuclear radiation contaminated islands

RONGELAP ISLANDERS LOATH TO RETURN TO NUKED HOME PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT March 2, 2010 U.S. says radiation no longer a threat on Marshalls atollBy Giff Johnson MAJURO, Marshall Islands– Fifty-six years after an American hydrogen bomb blast in the Pacific exposed hundreds of people to radioactive fallout, the U.S. Congress is pressing Marshallese Islanders to return home by next year.But Rongelap Islanders say they fear for their health if they return home to the necklace of coral islands that was exposed to the Marshall Islands equivalent of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine. Continue reading →

March 3, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, OCEANIA | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Native Americans exploited for nuclear waste dumping

Nuclear Waste On Native American Reservations. | The Good Human. February 28th, 2010, Native tribes across the American West have been and continue to be subjected to significant amounts of radioactive and otherwise hazardous waste as a result of living near nuclear test sites, uranium mines, power plants and toxic waste dumps. Continue reading →

March 1, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, USA | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Aborigines across Australia will fight nuclear waste dumping on their land

“Aborigines from across the country will fight nuclear dumping” Goodooga, northwest NSW, 24 February 10 – Aboriginal people will be called from all over Australia to protest in the Northern Territory against any movement of nuclear waste across their traditional lands, an Aboriginal activist says. Continue reading →

February 25, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Uranium mining threatens Public Health and Indigenous Sacred Lands

Uranium Mining Begins Near Grand Canyon: Thousands of Claims Threaten Public Health & Sacred Lands ::  Peace, Earth & Justice News Feb 24, 2010 Grand Canyon, AZ — In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium, Canadian company Denison Mines has started mining uranium on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Continue reading →

February 25, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, USA | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Australian govt to impose nuclear waste dump on unwilling Territory

Nuclear waste dump should be ‘scrapped’
BigPond News February 23, 2010

Mr Sweeney ….. argued the government was still forcing a nuclear waste dump on a community that doesn’t want it.He says about 60 traditional owners have signed a petition opposing the development of the dump at Muckaty, some of whom Mr Ferguson claims volunteered the land.Mr Sweeney said a small group of traditional owners were paid $200,000 to volunteer their land, but that the government had refused to make the agreement public due to ‘commercial confidence and sensitivity’.’ Continue reading →

February 24, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Australia: nuclear waste dumping for aborigines, not whites

Australia’s nuclear waste policy is not so much ‘evidence-based’ and ‘out of sight, out of mind.’

How to site a nuclear waste dump – Crikey.

by Bernard Keane

22 February 2010 Apart from the dispute between traditional owners, there’s a more fundamental question of why remote areas are preferred for nuclear waste dumps. The prerequisites routinely mentioned – geological stability and distance from groundwater – can readily be achieved elsewhere, without the expense and danger of transporting nuclear waste thousands of kilometres. Continue reading →

February 23, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues | , , , , , | 1 Comment

Aboriginal sovereignty issue ignored by Australian government

Australia’s new Aboriginal policy falls short of expectations | Worldfocus February 15, 2010 Jamie Macfarlane “…..Apologies are hard to give when the historical narrative of a nation’s ascendancy entirely sidesteps what happened to its indigenous inhabitants……….
Rudd’s assessment of his Aboriginal policies two years on largely ignored the second great Indigenous issue: native sovereignty. Continue reading →

February 16, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues | | Leave a comment

Uranium mining continues to damage indigenous communities

Déline is known as the “village of widows’ because most of the men who worked as labourers in the mines have died of some form of cancer.

The impacts of uranium mining on indigenous communities.-Peace, Earth and Justice News  Heather Tufts February 13, 2010 – “….. Uranium mining speculation lacks comprehensive health and safety regulations while the ethics of Canadian exported uranium, which can lead to depleted uranium used in zones of war, needs greater scrutiny. Continue reading →

February 15, 2010 Posted by | Canada, indigenous issues | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Australian aboriginal nuclear victims have Cherie Blair on their case

Cherie Blair to work on SA compensation case ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 25 Jan 2010
The wife of the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will represent five Aboriginies seeking compensation for ill health caused by nuclear testing in South Australia’s outback during the 1950s.

The claimants include relatives of people who have died since the nuclear testing at Maralinga. Continue reading →

January 25, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Aborigines finally get back radiation tainted land

The worst contamination came not from the bombs blasted, but from the so-called “minor trials” of weapons components that took place for another six years.………….Australia did not recognise the aborigines’ claims to the land

Atomic amends Jan 15th 2010 | MARALINGA The Economist
A blighted site is handed back to the people displaced by British bombs FROM the air, Maralinga looks much like the rest of Australia’s outback: vast, red and empty. Up close, there are differences. Continue reading →

January 17, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

USA backs AREVA, while indigenous nuclear victims suffer

Meltdown, USA: Nuclear Drive Trumps Safety Risks and High Cost 06 January 2010 by: Art Levine, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis“………whether in Native-American reservations here or in Niger villages abroad, indigenous, impoverished people live near or work in uranium mines to supply nuclear plants, and suffer the consequences in cancers, birth defects and leukemia. Continue reading →

January 7, 2010 Posted by | indigenous issues, Niger | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Religious protest against exploitation of indigenous land

Quaker Indian Committee disavows Doctrine of Discovery, affirms Declaration Indian Country Today By Gale Courey Toensing  Dec 17, 2009 PHILADELPHIA – Inspired by the actions of the Episcopal Church, a Quaker group has disavowed the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and voiced its support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Continue reading →

December 23, 2009 Posted by | indigenous issues, Religion and ethics, USA | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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