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Mining & Drilling

Energy Fuel Resources Tries to Downplay Grand Canyon Cancer Concerns

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FLAGSTAFF CITY COUNCIL APPROVES RESOLUTION OPPOSING URANIUM MINING, DESPITE COMPANY CLAIMS Featured image: Members of the Havasupai Tribe overjoyed to see the success of their resistance when the Flagstaff City Council announced their uranium hauling ban. Photo: Dustin Wero      by Garet Bleir / Intercontinental Cry As the Canyon Mine’s operations to extract uranium ore adjacent … Continue reading Energy Fuel Resources Tries to Downplay Grand Canyon Cancer Concerns →
Mining & Drilling

Havasupai Prayer Gathering: Indigenous Nations Unite Against Nuclear Colonialism

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Featured image by Garet Bleir      by Garet Bleir / Intercontinental Cry At the Havasupai Prayer Gathering, Fydel Rising Sun, member of the Havasupai Tribe, sang of resisting uranium mining to the sound of his beating drum. It was 3 a.m., and the sacred fire crackled under the dark outline of Red Butte, a site of … Continue reading Havasupai Prayer Gathering: Indigenous Nations Unite Against Nuclear Colonialism →
Mining & Drilling

Unanswered Questions Loom Over Grand Canyon Mine

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Featured image: Representatives from Haul No and the Havasupai Tribe march to the gates of the Canyon Mine which lay upon grounds sacred to many indigenous nations in the region. Photo: Garet Bleir      by Garet Bleir / Intercontinental Cry Any day now, Energy Fuels (EFR) will resume drilling for high-grade uranium ore at the Canyon Mine … Continue reading Unanswered Questions Loom Over Grand Canyon Mine →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling

Desecrating Medicine, Contaminating Water, Defiling Sacred Land

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Featured image: Red Butte. Located just 6 miles from the south rim of the Grand Canyon, this sacred site is in danger because of the Canyon uranium mine that operates adjacent. Photo Garet Bleir      by Garet Bleir / Intercontinental Cry More than five million people visit the Grand Canyon each year. It’s one of the … Continue reading Desecrating Medicine, Contaminating Water, Defiling Sacred Land →
Toxification

Half Life: America’s Last Uranium Mill

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     by Intercontinental Cry In southeastern Utah, not far from many of America’s famed national parks, lies America’s last remaining uranium mill. After more than 36 years in operation, the leaders of the nearby Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s White Mesa community worry that lax regulations and aging infrastructure are putting their water supply, and … Continue reading Half Life: America’s Last Uranium Mill →
Mining & Drilling

Grand Canyon Indigenous Allies in Fight Against Uranium Mining

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Featured image: A humble warning at the Canyon mine. Photo: Garet Bleir       by John Ahni Schertow / Intercontinental Cry A Canadian company, Energy Fuels Inc., is about to begin mining high-grade uranium ore just 5 miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. If the project goes ahead, the Colorado River could … Continue reading Grand Canyon Indigenous Allies in Fight Against Uranium Mining →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction

The Situation in the British Countryside

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by Julian Langer / Deep Green Resistance UK In Europe, we have conveniently forgotten the devastation this culture has inflicted (and continues to inflict) on the continent. In the USA and Australia, where the ecocide, specicide, and genocide committed by colonial forces are far more recent, people have a harder time pretending to be unaware … Continue reading The Situation in the British Countryside →
Colonialism & Conquest, Toxification

Beyond Flint, Michigan: The Navajo Water Crisis

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Featured image: Figure from EPA Pacific Southwest Region 9 Addressing Uranium Contamination on the Navajo Nation By Courtney Parker / Intercontinental Cry Recent media coverage and spiraling public outrage over the water crisis in Flint, Michigan has completely eclipsed the ongoing environmental justice struggles of the Navajo. Even worse, the media continues to frame the situation … Continue reading Beyond Flint, Michigan: The Navajo Water Crisis →
Alienation & Mental Health, Toxification

Tears as the World Collapses

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Editor’s Note: this post comes from DGR Seattle member Karen Fite, who is a longtime activist and community organizer. Here, she responds to a thoughtful article by our friend Dahr Jamail, a talented journalist who came to prominence for his un-embedded reporting on the Iraq war and now focuses on climate collapse. — I read … Continue reading Tears as the World Collapses →
Mining & Drilling

Federal Court upholds Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban

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By Brenna Goth, The Republic, azcentral.com, September 30, 2014 A 20-year ban on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon will remain in place after the U.S. District Court in Arizona ruled Tuesday against mining groups that sued the federal government. Mining associations and other groups with a stake in the industry argued that the U.S. … Continue reading Federal Court upholds Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban →