As spiking uranium prices drive a surge of proposals for new mines, the Navajo Nation joined the Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Sioux tribes in a commission hearing with federal officials to push back against mining on and near their lands.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights heard about the contamination of Native American lands by uranium extraction and milling during a thematic hearing on Wednesday in Washington D.C. The commission streamed the hearing on its website as well as YouTube. Eric Jantz with New Mexico Environmental Law Center told the commission at the start of
Redwater Pond Road and Pipeline Road community members gathered and marched July 15 to remember the 44th anniversary of the containment breach that occurred July 16, 1979, at the United Nuclear Corporation tailings disposal pond.
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