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11/14/2011 Navajo Times: 5-year uranium cleanup only the beginning
11/14/2011 Navajo Times: 5-year uranium cleanup only the beginning By Alastair Lee Bitsoi” Farmington – More than 100 people gathered here Tuesday (Nov. 
to hear updates from federal officials on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s five-year multi-agency plan to address the health and environmental impacts of uranium development on the Navajo Nation. Called the Navajo Uranium Contamination Stakeholder Workshop, it is a three-day summit held to update tribal officials and impacted Navajo community members on the progress of the plan, which is nearing completion.... Read More
Posted in cancer, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged 5-year plan, abandoned uranium mines, Alastair Lee Bitsoi, ASTDR, Indian Health Service, Navajo Nation, Navajo Times, Navajo Uranium Contamination Stakeholder workshop, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, public health, Superfund, uranium contamination, uranium mining, US DOE, US EPA
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11/8/2011 FP congratulates Robert Sabie, WWU – EPA Announces Winners of Apps for the Environment Challenge
Forgotten People congratulates Robert Sabie, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University. 11/8/2011 EPA Announces Winners of Apps for the Environment Challenge WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the winners of its Apps for the Environment challenge, which encouraged new and innovative uses of EPA’s data to create apps that address environmental and public health issues. Developers from across the country created apps with information about everything from energy efficient light bulbs to local air quality. A few even developed games to help people learn environmental facts.... Read More
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Tagged coal mining, contaminated water, EPA, EPA Apps for the Environment Challenge, GIS mapping, Huxley College of the Environment, Mapping, Professor Troy Abel, Robert Sabie, uranium contamination, uranium mining, US EPA, Western Washington University
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10/8/2011 The Economist: Radiation in Japan Hot spots and blind spots – The mounting human costs of Japan’s nuclear disaster
10/8/2011 The Economist: Radiation in Japan Hot spots and blind spots – The mounting human costs of Japan’s nuclear disaster: CREST the hill into the village of Iitate, and the reading on a radiation dosimeter surges eightfold—even with the car windows shut. “Don’t worry, I’ve been coming here for months and I’m still alive,” chuckles Chohei Sato, chief of the village council, as he rolls down the window and inhales cheerfully. He pulls off the road, gets out of the car and buries the dosimeter in the grass. The reading doubles again.... Read More
Posted in cancer, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water
Tagged Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, hot spots, Japan, Mr. Sato, nuclear disaster, nuclear power, Oxford University, plutonium, radiation, The Economist, Tokyo, Tokyo Electric Power, uranium contamination
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10/13/2011 Gallup Independent: Tribe: Public lands threatened by copper, uranium mining
10/13/2011 Tribe: Public lands threatened by copper, uranium mining By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – Representatives of the San Carlos Apache Tribe received support Tuesday from Navajo Nation Council delegates in their opposition to a bill which would allow a subsidiary of foreign mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to acquire more than 2,400 acres in Tonto National Forest for a massive underground copper mine. U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.-1, is sponsor of H.R. 1904: Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011. The land exchange would require Congress to lift a decades old mining ban within the 760 acres of federal lands known as Oak Flat, which were set aside from mining in 1955 by executive order of the Eisenhower administration.... Read More
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Tagged BHP Billiton, copper mining, Dook'o'oosliid, Forests and Public Lands, Gallup Independent, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Trust, Havasupai, Hualapai, injury to water, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Jicarilla, Kathy Helms, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council, Rio Tinto, San Carlos Apache, San Francisco Peaks, Sen. John McCain, Subcommittee on National Parks, Tonto Ntional Forest, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, uranium contamination, uranium mining, White Mountain Apache, Zuni
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10/10/2011 NY Times: After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future?
10/10/2011 NY Times: After Fukushima, Does Nuclear Power Have a Future? By STEPHANIE COOKE: A couple of months after the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant March 11, an American nuclear expert posed an interesting question. “The post-Fukushima public sentiment is surprisingly low-key isn’t it? What a difference between this event and TMI or Chernobyl,” he wrote in an e-mail, using an abbreviation for the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. “What do you think is going on? Why so quiet?”... Read More
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Tagged Chernobyl, France, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Germany, injury to water, Japan, New York Times, nuclear energy, nuclear power, South Korea, Three Mile Island, United Kingdom, United States, uranium contamination
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10/13/2011 ALERT: McCain Bill Will Open 1 Million Grand Canyon Acres to Uranium Mining – Take Action
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
Posted in Colorado River, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, Grand Canyon, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged ban uranium mining, Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon, Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, injury to water, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Kaibab-Paiute, Navajo Nation, safe drinking water, Sen. John McCain, uranium contamination, uranium mining
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10/25/2011 EPA Stakeholder Meeting on Uranium Legacy Contamination Issues featuring EPA Assistant Administrator, Mathy Stanislis
10/25/2011 EPA Stakeholder Meeting on Uranium Legacy Contamination Issues at The Albuquerque Marriott featuring EPA Assistant Administrator, Mathy Stanislis... Read More
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Tagged EPA, injury to water, nuclear energy, uranium contamination, uranium legacy, uranium mining, US EPA
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10/12/2011 The GOP-led bill opens up Grand Canyon area to mining
10/12/2011 The GOP-led bill opens up Grand Canyon area to mining: By FELICIA FONSECA The Salt Lake Tribune, The Associated Press: FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. • A group of Republican lawmakers is renewing an effort to open up 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon to new mining claims. Legislation announced Wednesday would prevent the Interior Department from extending a temporary ban on the filing of new mining claims that expires in December. The group said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s intention to set aside the land for 20 years would eliminate hundreds of potential jobs, create a de-facto wilderness area and unravel decades of responsible resource development.... Read More
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Tagged Associated Press, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Felicia Fonseca, Grand Canyon, injury to water, Interior department, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, The Salt Lake Tribune, uranium contamination, uranium mining
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10/11/2011 Gallup Independent: Hopi challenges BIA over water contamination
10/11/2011 Hopi challenges BIA over water contamination By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: KYKOTSMOVI – The Hopi Tribe has taken legal action against the Bureau of Indian Affairs over its operation of the Tuba City Open Dump and is seeking immediate restoration of contaminated groundwater that is migrating toward the Upper Moenkopi supply wells. Hopi Tribal Chairman LeRoy N. Shingoitewa said the tribe has spent more than 12 years trying to get the BIA to adequately address the issue of groundwater contamination stemming from the open dump since it was shut down in 1997. “Simply put, the BIA has failed to comply with the requirements that are in place to protect the Hopi Tribe’s drinking water,” he stated Monday in a press release.... Read More
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Tagged drinking water, Gallup Independent, Hopi Tribe, Hopi villages, injury to water, Navajo Nation, Tuba City open dump, uranium contamination, uranium tailings
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10/10/2011 Gallup Independent: Uranium mining license: Water wells, pipeline needed
10/10/2011 Uranium mining license: Water wells, pipeline needed by Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall sought assurances Thursday from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that Navajos living in Crownpoint would have a safe source of drinking water if Hydro Resources Inc. carries through with its plans for in situ mining of uranium in the Westwater Canyon Aquifer. In a hearing on cleanup of legacy uranium sites before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, Udall also pressed the NRC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on proposed future uranium mining operations. ... Read More
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Tagged Churchrock legacy site, Crownpoint, Gallup Independent, HRI, in-situ recover, Kathy Helms, legacy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Senator Tom Udall, Superfund, uranium contamination, Uranium Resources Inc., US EPA, US EPA Superfund, Westwater Canyon Aquifer, Window Rock
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