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Black Mesa Water Coalition Needs Your Support
URGENT! PLEASE ACT NOW!
JULY 7, 2008 DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS
Please Forward Widely to Everyone You Know!
On May 23, 2008 the Office Of Surface Mining (OSM) opened a 45 day public comment period concerning the proposed Black Mesa Project: Peabody Coal Company's massive coal-mining expansion plans on the sacred ancestral homelands of the Dine' (Navajo) & Hopi peoples of Black Mesa, AZ. Peabody Coal's plans would devastate whole communities & ecosystems and de-stabilize our planet's climate for their own personal gain. Your voices are urgently needed before the comment period closes July 7, 2008!
Big Mountain, Black Mesa Elder Faces Threat of her Ceremonial Lodge/Home being dismantled while Peabody Coal Company is pushing their massive coal-mining expansion plans on the sacred ancestral homelands of the Dine' (Navajo) & Hopi peoples of Black Mesa, AZ. Your voices are urgently needed before the deadline!
PEABODY COAL COMPANY'S PLANS UNDERMINES PLANETARY LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS BY ACCELERATING ECOLOGICAL & CULTURAL COLLAPSE! We cannot allow a small cartel of energy corporations and their financial backers to knowingly de-stabilize our planet's climate and devastate whole communities & ecosystems for their own personal gain. This may turn out to be the most devastating crime ever perpetrated against humanity, the planet and future generations. We are at a critical juncture. Indigenous and land-based people globally have maintained the understanding that our collective survival is deeply dependent on our relationship to the Earth.
Please, act now in support of the communities on the front lines of resistance! The Black Mesa Project Environmental Impact Statement (BMP-EIS) outlines harmful impacts to every level of the ecological and cultural systems on Black Mesa and has global repercussions. If we don't stop these plans, Peabody will have the green light to:
Lock in mining rights until the coal runs out or until 2025!
Substantially accelerate global warming and cause an ecological meltdown.
Destroy thousands of acres of canyon lands, vanishing indigenous vegetation and shrines or burials.
Blast the land for coal & deplete air quality, increasing the health risk of the local residents and their livestock.
Deplete an underground source of water that residents depend on to survive by pumping massive amounts of water.
Uproot & relocate families from their ancestral homelands where the coal mining expansion are.
Sacrifice human dignity and planetary health for elite profit! Peabody would cause many more problems than what is reflected here.
HERE'S HOW TO SEND YOUR COMMENTS: You can send as many comments as you want on different issues, as long is it's before the deadline on July 7, 2008. Your comments must directly address components of the EIS. Alternative C, (No Action), is our preferred alternative. Alternative B is Peabody Coal's preferred alternative. Find a sample letter here or write your own. At the top of your letter or in the subject line of your e-mail message, indicate: "BMP Draft EIS Comments.'' Include your name and return address in your letter or e-mail message.
The Draft Black Mesa Project Environmental Impact Statement for Peabody Coal's preferred Alternative B is available for review on OSM's Internet Web site at: http://www.wrcc.osmre.gov/WR/BlackMesaEIS.htm
EMAIL: BMKEIS@osmre.gov. You should receive a confirmation that OSM has received your e-mail comment, or contact (303) 293-5048.
Read more at link above.
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where the Touchette/Paisner family lived in the
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Navajo Uranium Mining Experience
Selected Literature on:
The Navajo Uranium Mining Experience, 2003-1952 (listed chronologically from most recent to oldest)
Compiled by
Chris Shuey, MPH
Southwest Research and Information Center
Revised December 11, 2003
This selected bibliography was compiled from files, databases and experience of the professional staff of Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC), which has worked on Navajo uranium issues and with Diné communities affected by uranium mining impacts since the mid-1970s. Entries were selected for their relevancy to Navajo community concerns, Navajo Nation policies, and health and environmental effects of uranium development on Navajo lands.
"What on earth were they thinking?"
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthblog. Selected Literature on: The Navajo Uranium Mining Experience, 2003-1952 (listed chronologically from most recent to oldest) ... more -
Democracy Now! | The Navajo Nation's Ongoing Battle Against Uranium Mining
March 02, 2006
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The Navajo Nation’s Ongoing Battle Against Uranium Mining
We look at the ongoing battle over uranium mining in the Navajo Nation. Mining has occurred on Navajo territory for over fifty years and the impact is still being felt. We speak with the directors of the Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining and the Southwest Research and Information Center....
We are broadcasting from New Mexico–home to the Navajo Nation. For decades they have been fighting an ongoing battle against uranium mining on their land. Last April, Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley approved legislation banning uranium mining on Navajo territory. There is currently no mining on the Navajo reservation but Hydro Resources Inc. has been working with the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission for years to try to get approval for mining near the Navajo communities of Crownpoint and Church Rock, New Mexico. The company estimates nearly one-hundred million pounds of uranium exists on those sites making it worth millions of dollars.
Uranium mining occurred on the Navajo Reservation for over fifty years and the impact is still felt. The land has been dotted with contaminated tailings and hundreds of abandoned mines that have not been cleaned up. March 02, 2006 Navajo3 The Navajo Nation’s Ongoing Battle Against Uranium Mining ... more -
Uranium Impact Assessment Program
In the late 1970s, Navajo uranium miners and their families asked for help to show that their lung diseases had been caused by their work in underground uranium mines in the 1940s-1960s. SRIC staff responded with medical and scientific data, in-community education strategies, and legislative support. As a result, Congress adopted legislation in 1990 to compensate former miners and their survivors. Ten years later, with SRIC's on going technical support to advocacy groups, the law was amended to cover virtually all uranium miners who worked before 1971.
Despite making great stridesin protecting miners' and community health, compensating former miners and their families, and cleaning up uranium mill sites, significant problems stemming from the legacy of uranium development still exist today in the Four Corners Area. Hundreds of abandoned mines have not been cleaned up and present environmental and health risks in many Navajo communities. Health conditions in those communities have never been studied despite being impacted by uranium development that dates back to the late-40s and early-50s.
Some of these same communities are now confronted with proposed new uranium solution mining that threatens the only source of drinking water for 10,000 to 15,000 people living in the Eastern Navajo Agency in northwestern New Mexico. Since 1994, SRIC has worked with those communities and the community-based group, Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM-CCT), to stop the proposed mines through community education, interaction with Navajo Nation leaders, and a seven-year-long legal challenge of the mines' federal license. The work of SRIC, ENDAUM-CCT and their law firms - the New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) and the Harmon-Curran firm in Washington, D.C. - has erected major roadblocks to the proposed mining, but has not yet terminated the license. Citizen opposition to mining is widespread, and the Navajo Nation leadership recently determined that uranium solution mining is unsafe and that the proposed mines are too risky to the health and environment of the Navajo people.
Against this background, working with Navajo groups and communities to stop new mining and continuing to assess and document the health and environmental effects of past uranium development are the principal focuses of UIAP work.
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Real & Fake Indians Gets First Chapter Prize
First Chapter 2006 Honorable Mention to Charleen Touchette and S. Barry Paisner from New Mexico, USA for Real and Fake Indians.
“American Indian athletes Shonto Benally, Shane Yazzie, and Nadema MacCleod race against Maude Meanobee’s ring of artifact marketers to retrieve inscribed stones in an adventure that brings Indian Country to Washington, D.C.” The first chapter of Real and Fake Indians is called “Northern Arizona.”
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