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Goodbye Grand Canyon if uranium mining gets go ahead?
More insanity of humanity: " Mining companies stake claims on federal land adjoining the park, while opponents say drinking water will be at risk.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - On a ragged outcrop just a short walk from a Grand Canyon overlook where millions of visitors annually come to gawk at one of the world's most stunning vistas sits the old Orphan uranium mine. Soil radiation levels around it are 450 times higher than normal. It's encircled by a protective fence.
A sign warns: "Remain behind fence - environmental evaluation in progress." In the canyon hundreds of feet below, another sign by gurgling Horn Creek instructs thirsty hikers not to drink its radioactive water. "
More Truthout.org link above. More insanity of humanity: " Mining companies stake claims on federal land adjoining the park, while opponents say drinking w... more -
Christian Century article on concerns over "acid" mines planned in Michi...
Above Photo of Lake Superior shoreline © Jim Kruger
Please read the Christian Century Article by Rev. Jon Magnuson on the "Acid Mine" that threatens Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
An ELCA Lutheran pastor, Rev. Magnuson is known across northern Michigan for creating numerous interfaith environment initiatives and other projects projects involving over 150 churches/temples, American Indian tribes, college students, at-risk teens, health care professionals and many others.
If this mine opens along Lake Superior, it could leak sulfuric acid into the Great Lakes.
It's the first of countless sulfide and uranium mines planned for Northern Michigan.
Besides unproven "new" technology, the mine will be open for only seven years - and create only about 150 short-term jobs. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the economic impact of the U.P.'s longstanding iron ore mines.
A lot of greed for a smattering of nickel and other minerals that will be sucked out of our precious soil.
The international mining company that wants to set up shop in Marquette County is Kennecott Minerals - an outfit with a dismal environmental record that has closed other acid mines without proper cleanup apparently finding it cheaper to fight in court than pay for the proper cleanup of the now vacent mine sites.
Photo of Lake Superior shoreline © Jim Kruger
Inland drilling: A debate over mining in Upper Michigan
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=5020
Many fear that the aicd mines - that will be joined by uranium mines - are a death-knell for northern Michigan and its bread-and-butter tourism economy.
Who will want to visit an area dotted by hundreds of acid pits and possibly polluted rivers, lakes and streams.
There are recent swirling rumors that Kennecott took state officials on junkets and other allegations of wrongdoing as their deep pockets wooed local and state leaders.
If true, it would not be the first scandal involving the local operation named the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company - as an important study critical of the mine were not made public by state officials until the information was leaked. Just an innocent oversight - the state claimed.
Do you hear the whirring sound? - it's Marquette's founding fathers are spinning in their graves.
For more information on the effort to stop the mines - visit Save the Wild UP website:
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Uranium will last for thousands of years
There are those out there saying uranium reserves wont last long. They're been proven very very wrong by the latest figures which show that the increase in uranium prices over recent years has spurred prospectors to boost known reserves by 17%.
The International Atomic Energy Agency and the OECD Nuclear Energy published the figures in their Red Book, which is brought out every two years. They say the currently economically recoverable reserves are enough to continue using nuclear energy at the current level for at least a century.
If we move on to use advanced reactors and reprocess the used fuel to recover and reuse uranium, the fuel can last for thousands of years. There are those out there saying uranium reserves wont last long. They're been proven very very wrong by the latest figures which... more -
Senator Obama Tells Voters He Passed Senate Bill to Protect Them - Only He Didn�...
Watch Senator Barack Obama tell how he passes a senate bill to protect citizens from nuclear radiation leaks from power plants.
Only problem, he didn't pass the bill.
The bill he proposed, he gutted after pressure from Republican Senators, the nuclear power industry, contributions over $300,000 from Excelon employees.
Then he let it die on the senate floor without passage.
Senator Obama knew the bill he told the democratic primary voters wasn't the one he describes and that it didn't pass when he said these words you see on the video.
This is an important lie.
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com Watch Senator Barack Obama tell how he passes a senate bill to protect citizens from nuclear radiation leaks from power plants. ... more -
Southwest Research and Information Center - Web Links
MISSION: Southwest Research and Information Center is a multi-cultural organization working to promote the health of people and communities, protect natural resources, ensure citizen participation, and secure environmental and social justice now and for future generations.
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Environment General
* Friends of the Earth
*High Country News
* New Mexico Environmental Law Center
* Petition for a Sustainable Energy Future
* Safe Energy Analyst
Uranium
*WISE Uranium Project
* Sustainable Energy and Anti-Uranium Service (SEA-US)
Nuclear Waste
*Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)
*Nuclear Information and Resource Service
* Citizen Alert
* Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS)
* Government Accountability Project (GAP)
* Heart of America
* Institute for Energy & Environmental Research (IEER)
* Los Alamos Study Group
* National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans
* Nuclear Control Institute
* Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
* Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
* Peace Action
* Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
* Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
* Shundahai Network
* Snake River Alliance
* Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
* Western States Legal Foundation
* Don't Blow It!
* Center for Defense Information
* WasteLink internet site directory
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*Partizansk web links
*Mineral Policy Center
*Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC)
*WISE Uranium Project
* The Natural Resources Canada, Minerals and Metals Sector
* ENVIROMINE
* National Mining Association
* Mineral Policy Institute
* Amigos Bravos
* USGS Mineral Resource Surveys Program
* Friends of the Earth
* Sustainable Energy and Anti-Uranium Service (SEA-US)
Renewable Energy Related Groups
* Green Energy New Mexico
* New Mexico Solar Energy Association
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Brought to you by your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com in New Mexico where radiation from Los Alamos National Atomic Labs is still not cleaned up.
Call and write your congresspeople and ask why they are letting this happen to our nation.
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Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye Opposed Uranium Mining in 2002
"Swayed by "your grave concerns about uranium mining operations" in the Eastern Navajo Agency in northwestern New Mexico, Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye and Vice President Dr. Taylor McKenzie have told community leaders that they now oppose uranium in situ leach (ISL) mining "located in or near populated areas" and conducted in "potable or potentially potable groundwater or surface water sources."
from Voices from the Earth, vol. 3, no. 3 Fall 2002
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Brought to you by your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com in New Mexico
where every day is Earth Day and the cost of life, health, and damage to air, water and earth make uranium mining too costly.
Photo by Charleen Touchette, "Sage at the Hogan", c.1985 in Navajo Nation. "Swayed by "your grave concerns about uranium mining operations" in the Eastern Navajo Agency in northwestern New Mexic... more -
Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining Took Their Message to the U.N. in 2004
Voices from the Earth, vol. 5, no. 3 Fall 2004
Mitchell Capitan and
Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining
Take Their Message to the International Stage
Click the link below to hear Mitchell Capitan
http://home.maryknoll.org/index.php?module=MKArticles&a...
For nearly 10 years, Mitchell Capitan and his wife Rita have been at the forefront of grass-roots resistance to industry and government efforts to commence new uranium mining in the Navajo communities of Crownpoint and Church Rock in northwestern New Mexico...."
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From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com because our children and grandchildren live in New Mexico where the air, water, and earth already have too much radiation.
Photo, "Wash in Canyon de Chelly" by Charleen Touchette Voices from the Earth, vol. 5, no. 3 Fall 2004 Mitchell Capitan and Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining ... more -
YouTube - Fair Shake _ Uranium Mining Moratorium
Call to Canadians to stop uranium mining in Ottawa and throughout Canada.
Americans in the U.S. also must oppose the poisoning of earth, water, and air from uranium mining.
This is a crucial environmental justice issue and a people of color and class issue, since uranium mines, toxic waste dumps, nuclear and dirty coal power plants are located disproportionately on Indian reservations and in poor communities which are overwhelmingly comprised of people of color.
But radiation knows no national or racial boundaries. Cancer crosses state lines and country borders and affects all races and economic groups.
We need to unite on this issue because we share one earth and have to stop poisoning our home.
From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog where it's always Earth Day. Call to Canadians to stop uranium mining in Ottawa and throughout Canada. ... more -
Nuclear Power No Cure for Climate Ills
"Nuclear energy may not live up to its promise as the solution for global warming, according to separate reports released this week by an environmental group and an independent think tank."
Duh.
Anyone who thinks nuclear power that requires uranium mining is a good idea, look at the video embedded below of satellite view of what uranium mining does to the earth.
Look at the astronomical increase in uranium mining claims around Great Bear Lake alone.
See the glow of radioactive waste from uranium mining in Australia.
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog where everyday is Earth Day. "Nuclear energy may not live up to its promise as the solution for global warming, according to separate reports released this we... more -
YouTube - Uranium Mining Hearing - azdailysun.com
Uranium Hearings on whether to allow uranium mining in and near Grand Canyon and elsewhere in Arizona.
Hear Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., and other Indian leaders decry the desecration of the water and land.
This message from your friends at TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog. Uranium Hearings on whether to allow uranium mining in and near Grand Canyon and elsewhere in Arizona. ... more -
Uranium: Boom, Bust and Back Again
Rough cut of our documentary about the history of Grants, New Mexico which is the Uranium Capital of the World. Mining is a major part of our community's history but everyone isn't sure if they want it back or not. We have enough for a 90 minute documentary we think but I want to see if people find it interesting. Rough cut of our documentary about the history of Grants, New Mexico which is the Uranium Capital of the World. Mining is a major part... more
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Uranium: boom, bust and back again
People think uranium might solve our energy crisis, but what about the risks to the people who have to mine it? Here is a look at Grants, New Mexico, the uranium capital of the world, where much of the cold war uranium came from. People think uranium might solve our energy crisis, but what about the risks to the people who have to mine it? Here is a look at Gr... more
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Uranium Mining: One Community's Struggle
Ontario is a growing province with growing energy demands. Instead of using the vast array of natural renewable energy sources available in the province, the Ontario government is resorting to nuclear energy to meet this demand. Uranium Mining: One Community's Struggle is a short documentary detailing the Sharbot Lake and Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Community's struggle for a clean and safe environment. The film also explains the impacts and dangers of uranium mining and why uranium mining in general is bad policy. Ontario is a growing province with growing energy demands. Instead of using the vast array of natural renewable energy sources availa... more
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Uranium Dreaming
Uranium mining threatens Aboriginal culture and land rights at many sites across Australia. In this film, Traditional Owners speak out against the mining companies which bring sickness to the land. Uranium Dreaming tells the story of the industry almost nobody wants.
by Scott Ludlam
http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/scottludlam/videos/u... Uranium mining threatens Aboriginal culture and land rights at many sites across Australia. In this film, Traditional Owners speak out... more -
Why is Nuclear so Sick by 77 (Music Video)
Why the nuclear industry is not necessary in Australia... or the rest of the world.
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