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11/10/2011 Navajo Times: Funds available for Freeze families, panel says
11/10/2011 Navajo Times: Funds available for Freeze families, panel says By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times. WINDOW ROCK: The Navajo-Hopi Land Commission reports that it has nearly $4 million available to start helping Navajo families in the former Bennett Freeze area. “This is the latest funding for the recovery of the area,” the NHLC office stated in a recent report to the Navajo Nation Council. The money is from an escrow account. For 30 years, 1966 to 1996, Navajo families in the Bennett Freeze area were prohibited from making improvements to their homes because of federal restrictions put in place at the behest of the Hopi Tribe, which claimed prior rights to the land.... Read More
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Tagged Bennett Freeze, forgotten people, government accountability, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council, Navajo Nation Gaming Enerprise, Navajo Times, Navajo-Hopi Land Commission, prohibited, Raymond Maxx, rehabilitation trust funds
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11/7/2011 Forgotten People MEDIA RELEASE: Peabody Kayenta mine permit renewal – Dooda (No)
Forgotten People MEDIA RELEASE: Peabody Kayenta mine permit renewal – Dooda (No): Black Mesa, AZ-On November 3, 2011, Forgotten People through their attorney Mick Harrison, Esq. with assistance from GreenFire Consulting Group, LLC joined Black Mesa Water Coalition, Diné C.A.R.E., To Nizhoni Ani, Center for Biological Diversity, and Sierra Club in submitting comments to oppose the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) decision to approve a controversial mine permit renewal for Peabody Coal Company’s Kayenta mine.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, coal mining, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Generating Station, Peabody Coal Company, Water
Tagged arsenic, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Center for Biological Diversity, coal mining, contaminated water, Dine CARE, forgotten people, GreenFire Consulting Group, injury to water, Kayenta mine, Mick Harrison, Office of Surface Mining, Peabody, Peabody Coal Company, Sierra Club, To Nizhoni Ani, uranium, US Department of the Interior
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10/25/2011 Indian Country Today: Arsenic in Indian Water Tables Can Cause Diabetes, Other Illnesses
10/25/2011 Indian Country Today: Arsenic in Indian Water Tables Can Cause Diabetes, Other Illnesses By Terri Hansen: Arsenic, even for a poison, is one nasty brew. Long-term ingestion of the metallic substance can result in thickening and discoloration of the skin, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, numbness in hands and feet, partial paralysis and blindness. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies inorganic arsenic as a Group A agent, a human carcinogen and, since the 1990s, exposure to it has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes mellitus. 
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Posted in coal mining, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged arsenic contamination, cancer, Centers for Disease Control a nd Prevention, contaminated water, diabetes, environmental health, EPA, forgotten people, Indian Country Today, injury to water, Navajo Nation, NTUA, safe drinking wter, uranium mining, US Department of Health and Human Services, water infrastructure, water safety
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9/28/2011 Navajo Times: Mold is suspect in building closure
9/28/2011 Navajo Times: Mold is suspect in building closure By Noel Lyn Smith: Potentially harmful mold inside the tribe’s Administration Building No. 1 has sent approximately 200 tribal employees packing. The building, which houses the Division of Finance, was ordered closed “indefinitely” on Sept. 9 by the Navajo Nation Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which enforces federal and tribal workplace safety laws.... Read More
9/28/2011 Navajo Times: Rehab fund spending report released
Rehab fund spending report released Report details how money intended for victims of the Bennett Freeze, in the Navajo-Hopi land dispute, was spent. 9/28/2011 Navajo Times: Rehab fund spending report release By Noel Lyn Smith: WINDOW ROCK: The Navajo Nation’s Department of Justice has finally produced a draft summary of the accounting record for the Navajo Rehabilitation Trust Fund. Nine months after being ordered to do so, DOJ submitted the document during a Sept. 21 hearing for the lawsuit filed by the Forgotten People and 12 other individuals who are suing the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission to learn how money has been spent from the fund, which was established by Congress to benefit residents of the former Bennett Freeze and Hopi Partitioned Land.... Read More
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Tagged forgotten people, Grace Smith Yellowhammer, Henry How, James W. Zion, Lorenzo curley, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Navajo Rehabilitation Trust Fund, Navajo Times, Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, Noel Lyn Smith, Raymond Maxx, Thomas Benally
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9/24/2011 Gallup Independent: Court halts NN mold cleanup
9/24/2011 Gallup Independent: Court halts NN mold cleanup By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau: WINDOW ROCK – At the request of Special Prosecutor Alan Balaran, District Court Judge Carol Perry issued a temporary restraining order Friday afternoon temporarily halting cleanup of black mold at Administration Building One until after a hearing Monday. Balaran filed a motion for a temporary restraining order, application for preliminary injunction and appointment of a special master at 1 p.m. Friday. He alleged that the building, which is the principal storehouse for the Navajo Nation’s financial documents, has been declared an environmental hazard.... Read More
Vote for Western Washington University-Forgotten People Environmental Justice Participatory Mapping
Environmental Justice Participatory Mapping Vote for Western Washington University Forgotten People mapping Project About the submission: The online map developed in this project uses data from the EPA 2007 Abandon Uranium Mines and the Navajo Nation: Atlas with Geospatial Data to give citizens access to basic information on unregulated water sources and abandoned uranium mine features. The map also provides citizens with the basic tools to visulize the spatial elements of potential environmental hazards.... Read More
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Tagged abandoned uranium mines, environmental advocacy, environmental justice, forgotten people, Forgotten People mapping project, geographic information systems, GIS, Navajo Nation, US EPA, US EPA Superfund, Western Washington University, WWU
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Four Corners Free Press: Living with the legacy of uranium on the Navajo Nation
Four Corners Free Press: Living with the legacy of uranium on the Navajo Nation By Sonja Horoshko: Box Springs, Ariz., is cut off by the Little Colorado River from access to any paved roads or the conveniences of groceries, gas stations, banks, electricity and power, not to mention jobs and economic development. But the community’s willingness to solve its own problems is gaining it recognition as one of the most pro-active areas on the Navajo Nation. Surrounding the tiny hamlet is the country in the Navajo Nation Western Agency referred to by some as “Cancer Alley” – the heart of leetsoii, the uranium belt stretching through the Navajo Nation to the Four Corners region.... Read More
Posted in cancer, drought, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water, Water and Sanitation
Tagged abandoned uranium mines, Box Springs, contaminated drinking water, forgotten people, Four Corners Free Press, IHS, Little CO River, Navajo Department of Water Resources, Navajo Nation, right to safe drinking water, Safe Drinking Water Hauling Feasibility Study and Pilot Project, Sonja Horosko, Tahonnie, unremediated abandoned uranium mines, uranium, uranium legacy, uranium mining, US EPA
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