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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Supai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Supai</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a>', <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arapaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arapaho</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lakota</span></a> Testify on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uranium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> before <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InterAmericanCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterAmericanCommission</span></a> on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p><p>"The legacy of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Southwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Southwest</span></a> is death from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> and unreclaimed uranium mines. Now the contamination threatens the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColoradoRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColoradoRiver</span></a>. Tilousi urged the Commission to support the tribes efforts and pressure the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> to change the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1872MiningLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1872MiningLaw</span></a> that allows international companies to seize <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicLand</span></a> for mining."</p><p>by Brenda Norrell, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> <br>March 1, 2024</p><p>WASHINGTON -- "'There was no respect for the people living on these lands, and certainly no respect for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>,' Edith Hood, Dine' from Red Water Pond Road community, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.</p><p>"'The government was aware of the risks and the dangers but failed and neglected to inform our people.'</p><p>"Dine', Havasupai, Northern Arapaho, Oglala Lakota and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesa</span></a> Ute testified on uranium exploitation by the United States on Wednesday, during the session, 'Impacts of Uranium Exploitation on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a>' Rights.'</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BIA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearRegulatoryCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearRegulatoryCommission</span></a> praised themselves, and attempted to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoverUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoverUp</span></a> the legacy of death from uranium mining, strewn <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaste</span></a>, and deadly uranium mills in Indian country.<br>Eric Jantz, legal director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, disagreed with the United States assertions.<br>Jantz pointed out that the U.S. appears to want Native people to sacrifice more for 'national security' -- rather than to deal with the devastation. As for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it has not honored public comments. And as for the EPA, it's too late. There are more than 500 uranium mine sites waiting to be cleaned up on the Navajo Nation. Zero have been fully cleaned up, Jantz told the Commission.</p><p>"'Our ancestors remains were desecrated to build the mill,' Anthony Badback, Ute Mountain Ute at White Mesa, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today in Washington. Badback testified that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> uranium mill has contaminated the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a>, plants, birds, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a>, and air in his community in southeastern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>.</p><p>"The young people are getting asthma, and the people can no longer use their spring water for ceremonies. Ute must buy bottled water to drink, and no longer hunt because of the contamination. Now, the mill is bringing in international waste and has become a low-level radioactive waste repository, because of the lax standards of the state of Utah. 'We want the mill to be shut down,' Badback told the Commission. 'Please help us.'</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02</span><span class="invisible">/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reprocessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reprocessing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>TODAY! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Supai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Supai</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a>', <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lakota</span></a> Testify on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uranium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> before Inter-American Commission on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p><p>by Brenda Norrell, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a><br>February 28, 2024</p><p>WASHINGTON -- "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear testimony from Navajo, Ute, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oglala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oglala</span></a> Lakota, on the impacts on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a>' human rights from uranium exploitation in Washington on Feb. 28, 2024. </p><p>"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nahasdza%CC%81a%CC%81nShima%CC%81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NahasdzáánShimá</span></a> — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>—provides everything we need to keep us alive—the four things we Navajos talk about —air, water, soil, and light—and it is our home,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdithHood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdithHood</span></a>, President, of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedWaterPondRoadCommunityAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedWaterPondRoadCommunityAssociation</span></a>.</p><p>"'We have been living with this silent killer without knowing the dangers. Once the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> started, after the drilling, we didn’t realize we were being contaminated.'</p><p>"'When we were children playing and herding sheep we didn’t understand we were being exposed to dangerous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a>,' Hood said.<br>Hood thanked the commission for the hearing and added, "Our own <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tribalgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tribalgovernment</span></a> doesn’t listen to us.'</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InterAmericanCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterAmericanCommission</span></a> on Human Rights agreed to hold a thematic hearing on how U.S. uranium exploitation policies have resulted in human rights abuses in Indigenous communities across the country. This coincides with an upsurge in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a>, said the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalLawCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalLawCenter</span></a>. </p><p>"'As the United States doubles down on the misguided notion that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> is a solution to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>, the uranium development industry is beginning to benefit from generous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxpayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxpayer</span></a> giveaways to the nuclear industry as a whole.' </p><p>"'Subsidies from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> administration have spurred uranium mining production to restart in at least 3 mines in the last few months, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wyoming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wyoming</span></a>, and in Arizona near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a>. As has been the case since the dawn of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicAge</span></a>, the impacts of uranium mining are largely left out of the debate over nuclear power.'</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> said it is increasing U.S. uranium production as prices reach a 16-year high. Energy Fuels said in December that it is ramping up uranium production at three mines <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlain</span></a> in in the Grand Canyon, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaSal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaSal</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pandora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pandora</span></a> uranium mines in southeastern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>.</p><p>"Ore mined from the three mines during 2024 will be stockpiled at the Energy Fuels <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> in Utah for processing in 2025. It is also preparing two mines, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Whirlwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whirlwind</span></a> in southeastern Utah, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NicholsRanch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NicholsRanch</span></a> in central Wyoming, to begin uranium production within one year, Energy Fuels said.</p><p>"Pinyon Plain began uranium mining and is now threatening the water of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> in their homeland in the Grand Canyon. The mine is now endangering Navajo, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a>, Ute, and southwest residents, on the uranium haul route, from the Grand Canyon to the Energy Fuels mill in southeastern Utah.</p><p>"The White Mesa Mill is poisoning the water, land, and air of White Mesa Utes in southeastern Utah. It is now bringing in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> waste from Europe. Nuclear waste at the site was transported here from the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada because it was too deadly to leave there. The Nevada site poisoned the ancestral land of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02</span><span class="invisible">/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a></p>
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