Navajo Nation faces possible new threats after decades of uranium mining
WEBDec 7, 2023 · More than 500 mines across the Navajo Nation once supplied uranium that helped power the U.S. Department of Defense's nuclear arms development, including the Manhattan Project during World War II ...
Indigenous leaders and activists protest uranium shipments …
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Arizona's governor has intervened in a dispute between the Navajo Nation and a uranium mining company about ore trucks traveling across the reservation. The Navajo Nation has vowed to...
Arizona governor negotiates pause in hauling of uranium ore …
WEBArizona's governor says a uranium producer has agreed to temporarily pause transport of the mineral through the Navajo Nation after the tribe raised concerns related to a safety plan.
Navajo president tries to halt uranium shipments, says company …
WEBJul 31, 2024 · Navajo President Buu Nygren deployed tribal police Tuesday in an attempt to stop trucks carrying uranium ore from a mine south of the Grand Canyon, and accused the mine's operator of trying...
Navajo Nation plans to test limit of tribal law preventing ...
WEBPHOENIX (AP) — The Navajo Nation planned Tuesday to test a tribal law that bans uranium from being transported on its land by ordering tribal police to stop trucks carrying the mineral and return to the mine where it was extracted in northern Arizona.
Along a 300-mile hauling route, Navajo uranium concerns collide …
WEBJul 11, 2024 · Uranium ore extracted from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon will be hauled in trucks on a 300-mile route that cuts through the Navajo Nation to its final destination in San Juan County, home to some 14,400 residents.
Navajo Nation adopts changes to tribal law regulating the ...
WEBAug 31, 2024 · The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The move is in response to the revival of a uranium mining operation just south of the Grand …
Navajo Nation adopts changes to tribal law regulating the ... - ABC News
WEBAug 30, 2024 · The tribe in 2005 banned uranium mining across the sprawling reservation, pointing to the painful legacy of contamination, illness and death that was left behind by the extraction of nearly 30 millions tons of the ore during World War II and the Cold War.
Navajo, Arizona attorney general question safety of newly ... - NPR
WEBAug 24, 2024 · FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Uranium mining in the U.S. is picking up after the nuclear fuel’s price hit a 16-year high earlier this year. But now that a mine near the Grand Canyon is producing ore,...
Navajo Nation Marches to D.C. Seeking Justice and RECA …
WEB22 hours ago · With the march's approach, NNWO Director Justin Ahasteen highlighted the disproportionate impact of uranium mining on the Navajo people throughout the Cold War era, emphasizing that those affected ...
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