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0:54 Rep. Grijalva and 16 other Democrats introduced the Grand Canyon Protection Act Monday in the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s similar to other attempts to withdraw more than a million acres adjacent to the national park from future uranium mining while leaving existing claims intact. In 2012, then-U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar banned new uranium claims for 20 years. Conservationists worry about the possible negative effects expanded mining could have on the Grand Canyon’s groundwater and springs. The Havasupai Tribe says if the moratorium is allowed to expire it would prese...

Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation, , February 3, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is wiping out Indigenous elders and with them the cultural identity of Indigenous communities in the United States. But on lands that sprawl across a vast area of the American West, the Navajo (or Diné) are dealing not just with the pandemic, but also with another, related public health crisis. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19 is killing Native Americans at nearly three times the rate of whites, and on the Navajo Nation itself, about 30,000 people have tested po...

Communiqué de presse de fin de marche (en anglais) Communiqué de presse envoyé par le collectif FOOTPRINTS FOR PEACE. COMMON HEALTH before COMMONWEALTH Anti uranium-mining walkers on home stretch to reach the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Fifty walkers from fifteen different countries are set to reach Perth this week. The walkers left Wiluna nine weeks and 1,200 km’s ago. Through rain, wind, and dust, through hot days and cold nights the walkers have remained strong in their call for an end to uranium mining in Australia.  The group has been walking in solidarity wi...

Together with the environmental organization the sierra club the havasupai have taken legal action to stop the mine from operating. in germany too uranium mining has taken its toll a toxic environmental legacy of the communist era in east germany. for example some eighty thousand tonnes of uranium were extracted here during the cold war delivered to the soviet union for nuclear bombs and to supply nuclear power plants. by some the valley of death was one of several dozen mines operated by vis moat a uranium exploration company set up by the occupying soviet union. in the one nine hundred ninet...

Because it be little to you and you begin to know how you have even this core because you're not. all of it. here just a little piece of a parcel when you look at the grand canyon. for tourists up above the canyon appears devoid of human life but tucked away inside a deep valley is the village of supai one of the most remote settlements in the u.s. the only way to reach it is by helicopter or enforce the nearest road is thirteen kilometers away. now if you put just so is one of supai is five hundred residents he's angry at the u.s. government and its backing for a resumption of uranium mining ...