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FOX 13 Investigates: Uranium mill says its safe and critical, but Ute people want it gone

April 14, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ “These are our homelands where my people lived and survived here for thousands of years,” he said. Ketchum’s biggest gig was at opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, where athletes from around the world came to Utah. He is less pleased about something else coming to Utah. “That’s one thing I ...
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Feud over closure of San Juan Generating Station could cost customers

April 13, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Shutting down and converting to clean energy is supposed to save money The San Juan Generating Station is a coal-fired electric power plant located near its coal source, the San Juan Mine, near Waterflow, New Mexico. (Courtesy of ecoflight.org) This year’s planned closure of a New Mexico coal-fired power plant is expected ...
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EPA: Uranium waste pond at White Mesa, Utah, out of compliance

April 13, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Containment cell supposed to be covered in water to reduce radon emissions; Energy Fuels says material is exempt An EcoFlight flyover of waste containment cells April 4 at the White Mesa Mill shows waste containment Cell 4B (bottom) is not sufficiently covered in water as required by federal regulations, according to the ...
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Part I: Ute tribe, environmentalist groups call for closure of the White Mesa Uranium Mill

April 12, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Recent EcoFlight overflights of White Mesa Uranium Mill revealed radioactive materials remain uncovered. (Photo/EcoFlight) WHITE MESA, Utah — Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and environmental organizations want to see the White Mesa uranium mill, located in San Juan County in Utah, shut down and are asking for the mill to be strictly regulated ...
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When history repeats

April 11, 2022 News & Media No Comments
On nuke waste dumps and Power Madness in Indigenous Country Original Post ➡️ White Mesa Mill (with Mesa Verde and Ute Mountain) from within Bears Ears National Monument. Jonathan P. Thompson photo. THE HISTORY: In the 1980s, a site on the edge of Canyonlands National Park was a main candidate to become the nation’s nuclear waste ...
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Flight over White Mesa Mill, Bears Ears National Monument and Lake Powell

April 7, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the White Mesa Mill, which produces and recycles uranium, located south of Blanding, Utah on April 5, 2022.JOEL ANGEL JUAREZ/THE REPUBLIC A view of Comb Ridge within Bears Ears National Monument, Utah on April 5, 2022.JOEL ANGEL JUAREZ/THE REPUBLIC A view of Bears Ears National Monument, Utah on ...
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CU graduate students take lead on management plan for Flat Tops byway

April 4, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Unless plan is updated, 82-mile roadway could lose its status as scenic byway Original Post ➡️ Trappers Lake, also known as the “Cradle of Wilderness,” lies entirely within the Flat Tops Wilderness area and can be accessed by the Flat Tops Trail Scenic Byway, an 82-mile road connecting Yampa and Meeker. EcoFlight/Courtesy Even roads have ...
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EcoFlight Illustrates the Majesty and Precarity of the Northern Amargosa Basin

April 1, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Early in the morning on Saturday, March 12th, individuals working and living in the Amargosa Basin and Death Valley region met at Calvada Meadows Airport near Pahrump, NV. The morning shown bright and windless: ideal conditions for flying in a single-engine Cessna 210 propellor plane. Bruce Gordon — the plane’s pilot and founder ...
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‘Ready to fight’: how a Russian uranium ban would threaten Native American tribes

March 28, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Navajo Point at sunset. Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy Original Post ➡️ Ban would shift US uranium production into overdrive – posing environmental and spiritual threats to Indigenous communities who live near the mines Sacred Native American sites such as the Grand Canyon and Bears Ears may seem a long way from the devastation unfolding in Ukraine. But as ...
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Report: Uranium mill near Bears Ears has become ‘America’s cheapest radioactive waste dump’

March 26, 2022 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ White Mesa Concerned Community members assemble in parking lot of White Mesa Community Center before leading a spiritual protest walk to the White Mesa Mill on October 10,2021. Tim Peterson, courtesy A recent research report from Grand Canyon Trust (GCT) alleges that the White Mesa uranium mill adjacent to Bears Ears National Monument has ...
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