Uranium

Toxic Legacy: Uranium Mining In New Mexico

February 21, 2014 Dahr Jamail, www.truthout.org Educate! Government, Health Care, Uranium

In New Mexico, a disproportionate number of unremediated uranium mine and mill sites are on lands traditionally used and occupied by the Navajo. Thus, a disproportionate amount of pollution from uranium sites occurs in Navajo communities, so the Navajo continue to bear the brunt of the health problems associated with these toxic sites. Navajo families have bathed in, showered in, washed clothes in, played in and drunk radioactive water. Their men worked in the mines while breathing carcinogenic gases then spread radionuclides throughout their families simply by returning home from work. But it wasn't until the spill was designated as a superfund site in 1983 that the Navajo who were being irradiated and sickened for more than 30 years learned the truth.

Uranium Mine Troubles Native American Groups

February 9, 2014 Samuel Nelson Gilbert, www.aljazeera.com Educate! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Uranium

Mounds of radioactive waste dot the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation in the US state of New Mexico. The earthen monoliths contain contaminated material from the more than 250 abandoned uranium mines that once provided the raw materials for the US nuclear complex. As the Cold War ended, so did the demand for uranium. Yet growing international investment in nuclear energy has led to the prospect of renewed uranium mining in New Mexico, including the controversial new Roca Honda mine located on Mount Taylor, an area considered sacred by the Navajo and Pueblo peoples of the southwestern United States. "If developed, Roca Honda will be a huge underground mine with tremendous impacts," said environmental attorney Eric Jantz. "This mine could destroy people's water, land, their places of worship - all for the purposes of funnelling profits to a Canadian company that is in turn selling it to Korea."

Victory! Virginia Uranium Backs Off Mine Plan For Now

December 22, 2013 Staff, www.beyondnuclear.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Uranium

Virginia Uranium, the company hoping to mine the Coles Hill site in Virginia, has suspended plans for the project. Despite investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in junkets to France and Canada for Virginia legislators and other lobbying efforts, the company was defeated by a large and diverse mass movement of opposition in the state. Newly elected VA governor, Terry McAuliffe, has also expressed opposition to the plan which would have required the lifting of a long-standing moratorium against uranium mining in Virginia. Opponents and critics, and even an analysis conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, raised serious doubts about the environment in Virginia, both natural and regulatory. Citing its wet climate and recent episodes of violent weather, opponents vigorously opposed the plan. The threat to drinking water, wine country and farm land also provided a compelling reason to stop the project. No regulatory infrastructure exists in Virginia suitable to effectively monitor a project of this kind.

VIDEO: Urgent Message – Clean Up Abandoned Open Pit Uranium Mines

December 21, 2013 Crystal Zevon, www.searchingforoccupy.com Educate! Health Care, Indigenous Rights, Nuclear Energy, Uranium, Video

Throughout the West, particularly on tribal land, abandoned open pit uranium mines continue to emit radiation and toxic heavy metal dust into the air, land and water. These pit mines were created during the cold war frenzy when the Atomic Energy Commission stated that it would buy all of the uranium that could be mined. Corporations such as Kerr-McGee and Atlantic Richfield as well as local ranchers jumped on the chance to make money. When they were done, the pits were left behind with no remediation. The radiation and toxic heavy metals from the mine contaminate the food supply as livestock drink polluted water and plants grown in contaminated soil. People who live near the mines experience many health effects including high rates of cancer deaths and birth defects.

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