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Mountaintop Mining, Up Close and Personal

Words alone can’t describe what mountaintop mining is doing to Appalachia, its... more

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Vedanta versus villagers: the fight for Niyamgiri mountain

Indian tribe the Dongria Kondh face destruction of their lands and extinction at the... more

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Documentary Explores Environmental Consequences of Gas Extraction Method: A Look at Fracking

Colorado: Thought your land was your land? A Look at Fracking: Documentary... more

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Critics blast $3M mining handout to Goldman Sachs

A mining company owned by Goldman Sachs and two private equity funds is in line to get... more

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Documentary: The Real McCoys

'Link TV - Television Without Borders' http://www.linktv.org/ Meet Nina... more

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The Weekly Carboholic: EPA Office of the Inspector General recommends EPA enforce Clean Water Act

Last week, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that the EPA’s internal... more

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British energy firm in the dock over Amazon.

Excerpts: "Exploration of remote Peruvian region could spell disaster for... more

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Top 25 Mining Engineering Blogs

Mineral mining engineers locate, extract, and prepare minerals for use by... more

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Shopping For Lithium Below Bolivia's Salt Desert

Stand in the middle of Salar de Uyuni, the world's greatest salt desert, and the... more

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Inside the Peruvian Amazon

Ben Powless: President can hunt indigenous leader all he wants, the movement came from... more

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Police in Peru accused of disappearing bodies

Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between indigenous people and police in... more

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Mine: story of a sacred mountain (feat. Joanna Lumley)

What will one tribe have to do to save everything they know? Mine, narrated by... more

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Mine waste trips up Alaska gold rush

Reporting from Berners Bay, Alaska -- Sitting like a turquoise gem in a bowl of... more

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74 People Die In A Chinese Mine Explosion

The mining industry in China has a horrendous safety record. The government, which has... more

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My dirty little Valentine

When choosing gold jewelry for your Valentine this year, consider the dirty secrets of... more

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The Deadly Impact of Uranium Mining

For God's sake leave the yellow powder alone!

Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path
The impact of uranium mining on indigenous communities
by Winona LaDuke
Published in the January/February 2009 issue of Orion magazine

"IN A DINE CREATION STORY, the people were given a choice of two yellow powders. They chose the yellow dust of corn pollen, and were instructed to leave the other yellow powder—uranium—in the soil and never to dig it up. If it were taken from the ground, they were told, a great evil would come.

The evil came. Over one thousand uranium mines gouged the earth in the Dine Bikeyah, the land of the Navajo, during a thirty-year period beginning in the 1950s. It was the lethal nature of uranium mining that led the industry to the isolated lands of Native America. By the mid-1970s, there were 380 uranium leases on native land and only 4 on public or acquired lands. At that time, the industry and government were fully aware of the health impacts of uranium mining on workers, their families, and the land upon which their descendants would come to live. Unfortunately, few Navajo uranium miners were told of the risks. In the 1960s, the Department of Labor even provided the Kerr-McGee Corporation with support for hiring Navajo uranium miners, who were paid $1.62 an hour to work underground in the mine shafts with little or no ventilation.

All told, more than three thousand Navajos worked in uranium mines, often walking home in ore-covered clothes. The consequences were devastating. Thousands of uranium miners and their relatives lost their lives as a result of radioactive contamination. Many families are still seeking compensation. The Navajo Nation is still struggling to address the impact of abandoned uranium mines on the reservation, as well as the long-term health effects on both the miners and their communities, many of which suffer astronomical rates of cancer and birth defects.

As a college student, I worked for Navajo organizations, trying to inform their people about the uranium-mining industry and the large corporations—EXXON, Mobil, United Nuclear—that proposed to mine their lands. It was a humbling experience, seeing some of the richest corporations in the world faced by courageous peoples who fought for the two things that mattered to them more than money: their land and their identity. The Navajo people joined with many others across the country who felt that there was a much better way to make energy. In the end, the people did prevail—new mining proposals evaporated as tribal resistance and legal and administrative battles merged with economic forces. Eventually, contracts for uranium were canceled by utilities, which no longer sought to build unpopular nuclear power plants.

Now I feel like I am having very bad déjà vu—only this time nuclear power is seen as the answer to global climate destabilization. In 2005, the Navajo Nation passed a moratorium on uranium mining in its territory and traditional lands, which was followed by similar moratoria on Hopi and Havasupai lands, where mines are proposed adjacent to the Grand Canyon. “It is unconscionable to me that the federal government would consider allowing uranium mining to be restarted anywhere near the Navajo Nation when we are still suffering from previous mining activities,” Joe Shirley Jr., Navajo Nation president, explained at a congressional hearing on opening uranium mines in the Grand Canyon area. To the north, the Lakota organization Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way) is an intervener in a Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing to allow the Canadian corporation Cameco to expand its Crow Butte uranium mine, just over the Nebraska border from the reservation."
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Lundin Mining Closes Sale of Aljustrel Mine

Lundin Mining Corporation reports that the previously announced sale of its subsidiary... more

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Rock Your World

The Gem and Mineral Museum in Franklin, North Carolina truly ROCKS!

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Defending the Zambezi: Africa's River of Life

The Zambezi is one of the most heavily dammed rivers in Africa. More than 30 large... more

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Tell Home Depot to protect Patagonia's Rivers!

The Patagonia Campaign is heating up! Momentum is building after Pro-Build, one of the... more

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