Tag Archives: safe drinking water

10/13/2011 ALERT: McCain Bill Will Open 1 Million Grand Canyon Acres to Uranium Mining – Take Action

Posted on October 13, 2011 by forgottenpeople

10/13/2011 Center for Biological Diversity ALERT: Take action to tell your senators to oppose all provisions blocking a drilling ban. Today GOP lawmakers led by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced legislation that would open one million acres of public lands forming Grand Canyon National Park’s watershed to new uranium mining. The bill would overturn an existing moratorium on new mining and mining claims. “It is unconscionable that Senator McCain and Representatives Flake and Franks are seeking to undermine protections for Grand Canyon and its watershed and showing so little regard for the people of Arizona, including all of those who expressed strong support for protecting these lands from uranium mining and the pollution it produces,” said Sandy Bahr, chapter director, Sierra Club – Grand Canyon Chapter.... Read More

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10/12/2011 Food & Water Watch: Proposed Law Guts Water Protections, Won’t Make Us Safer

Posted on October 12, 2011 by forgottenpeople

10/12/2011 Food & Water Watch: Proposed Law Guts Water Protections, Won’t Make Us Safer: Statement by Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch: “We are appalled to hear that the House Natural Resources committee has passed the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, which would waive federal environmental protections for Department of Homeland Security activities on federal lands in border areas. Let’s hope it doesn’t go any further than that.... Read More

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9/29/2011 U.S. EPA selects $70 million remedy for groundwater contamination removal at Omega Chemical Site

Posted on October 7, 2011 by forgottenpeople

For Immediate Release: September 29, 2011 Contact: Francisco Arcaute, Cell (213) 798-1404 , arcaute.francisco@epa.gov U.S. EPA selects $70 million remedy for groundwater contamination removal at Omega Chemical Site Preventing Spread of 4.5 mile Contamination Plume is Primary Goal SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has selected an interim remedy to capture and treat groundwater contaminated by high concentrations of industrial solvents at the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Whittier, Calif.  This cleanup is estimated to cost nearly $70 million over the life of the treatment system.... Read More

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7/27/2011 UN General Assembly Examines Vital Human Right to Safe Drinking Water, Adequate Sanitation

Posted on October 2, 2011 by forgottenpeople

7/27/2011 United Nations General Assembly GA/11123 Sixty-fifth General Assembly Plenary 114th Meeting Examines Vital Human Right to Safe Drinking Water, Adequate Sanitation: ‘Water Is the Mother of All Rights,’ Says Bolivia’s Leader, Opposing Attempts To Privatize It; Venezuela Says Wrong to Flaunt Resources While Millions Lack Them. While some strides had been made to increase access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation — now regarded as a fundamental human right — efforts must be redoubled to provide access to safe water to the more than 1 billion people without it and basic sanitation services for the more than 2 billion still in need, urged experts and delegates in the General Assembly this afternoon.... Read More

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 at 5:00 PM at City Hall in Flagstaff, Ariz.

Posted on September 14, 2011 by forgottenpeople

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 at 5:00 PM at City Hall in Flagstaff, Ariz. On the Use and Preservation of Dook’o’osliid: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ST. MICHAELS, Ariz.—The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission will hold a public hearing to give Navajo citizens an opportunity to give oral testimony, written information, or send written testimony to NNHRC about Dook’o’osliid as they relate to use, need for preservation, protection and other issues on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5 p.m. at City Hall in Flagstaff, Ariz. ... Read More

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9/10/2011 Gallup Independent: Residents suffer while tribes debate water issues

Posted on September 11, 2011 by forgottenpeople

Rose Chewing Lane from Boadaway/Gap drank water from eight of these 55-gallon barrels for several years9/10/2011 Gallup Independent: Residents suffer while tribes debate water issues By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau: WINDOW ROCK – Members of the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission and the Hopi Tribe will meet next week to discuss water issues brought up by Navajos residing on Hopi Partitioned Land who refused to leave their homes after Congress partitioned the disputed lands in 1974 and forced the relocation of Navajo and Hopi families. In April, after two years of efforts by the grassroots group Forgotten People, U.S. and Navajo agencies, the first load of safe drinking water was delivered to residents in the Black Falls/Box Springs/Grand Falls area near Leupp who were drinking uranium- and arsenic-contaminated water. The group hopes to replicate that success for residents of HPL and the former Bennett Freeze.... Read More

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8/22/2011 James W. Zion Report to UN CERD on human right to safe drinking water and sanitation

Posted on August 24, 2011 by forgottenpeople

James Zion Letter to Patrick Thorn Berry UN CERD Committee Member“>... Read More

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5/14/2011 US EPA Superfund meeting a great success

Posted on May 16, 2011 by forgottenpeople

The Saturday, 5/14/2011 US EPA Superfund meeting at the Moenkopi Legacy Inn & Suites was a great success. The room was filled to capacity. Debbie Schechter, Linda Reeves, Svetlana Zenkin and Brian Davidson, US EPA Superfund and Alex Grubb, Weston Associates, Contractor for US EPA Superfund presented. Frank Nez, Hathalie (Medicine Man) gave an invocation. James Peshlakai and the former governor of the Village of Upper Moenkopi presented opening remarks. Frank Nez, Lucy Knorr, Ethel Nez provided translation. People had a chance to speak and ask questions and US EPA Superfund conducted break out groups on water, abandoned uranium mines and contaminated structures. ... Read More

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4/20/2011 Gallup Independent article: Delegate concerned about cleanup of Highway 160 site

Posted on April 23, 2011 by forgottenpeople

Delegate concerned about cleanup of Highway 160 site, By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent, 4/20/2011, WINDOW ROCK – Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency has selected a contractor to begin cleanup of the “Highway 160 Site” in Tuba City and will host a Radiation Awareness Workshop next week at To’Nanees’Dizi Chapter House to educate the public, according to Navajo Nation Council Delegate Joshua Lavar Butler. “Area residents need to be reassured that the cleanup and transport of radioactive material is done in an effective and efficient manner without causing further harm to the surrounding area. During the summer it’s windy, and anyone downwind could be affected,” Butler, who represents To’Nanees’ Dizi, said.... Read More

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4/19/2011: First scheduled safe drinking water delivery for water haulers at Box Springs turn off

Posted on April 20, 2011 by forgottenpeople

Please check out the Picassa Web Album:  https://picasaweb.google.com/forgottenpeoplecdc/4192011SafeDrinkingWaterDelivery?feat=directlink On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 the US EPA funded 4,000 gallon water hauling truck made its first scheduled delivery of safe drinking water for water haulers at the Box Springs turn off.  People waited in line and children played as everyone waited to fill their tanks with safe drinking water. Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources distributed a few 200 gallon and 50 gallon tanks and Ronald Tohannie, Black Falls Project Manager had water haulers complete applications to participate in the safe drinking water pilot project and used our new 500 gallon water hauling trailer to deliver water to some people’s homes.  Access to safe drinking water is a human right.... Read More

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