DoomsdaysCW<p>TODAY! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Supai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Supai</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a>', <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lakota</span></a> Testify on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uranium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> before Inter-American Commission on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p><p>by Brenda Norrell, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a><br>February 28, 2024</p><p>WASHINGTON -- "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear testimony from Navajo, Ute, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oglala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oglala</span></a> Lakota, on the impacts on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a>' human rights from uranium exploitation in Washington on Feb. 28, 2024. </p><p>"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nahasdza%CC%81a%CC%81nShima%CC%81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NahasdzáánShimá</span></a> — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>—provides everything we need to keep us alive—the four things we Navajos talk about —air, water, soil, and light—and it is our home,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdithHood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdithHood</span></a>, President, of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedWaterPondRoadCommunityAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedWaterPondRoadCommunityAssociation</span></a>.</p><p>"'We have been living with this silent killer without knowing the dangers. Once the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> started, after the drilling, we didn’t realize we were being contaminated.'</p><p>"'When we were children playing and herding sheep we didn’t understand we were being exposed to dangerous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a>,' Hood said.<br>Hood thanked the commission for the hearing and added, "Our own <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tribalgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tribalgovernment</span></a> doesn’t listen to us.'</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InterAmericanCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterAmericanCommission</span></a> on Human Rights agreed to hold a thematic hearing on how U.S. uranium exploitation policies have resulted in human rights abuses in Indigenous communities across the country. This coincides with an upsurge in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a>, said the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalLawCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalLawCenter</span></a>. </p><p>"'As the United States doubles down on the misguided notion that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> is a solution to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>, the uranium development industry is beginning to benefit from generous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxpayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxpayer</span></a> giveaways to the nuclear industry as a whole.' </p><p>"'Subsidies from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> administration have spurred uranium mining production to restart in at least 3 mines in the last few months, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wyoming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wyoming</span></a>, and in Arizona near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a>. As has been the case since the dawn of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicAge</span></a>, the impacts of uranium mining are largely left out of the debate over nuclear power.'</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> said it is increasing U.S. uranium production as prices reach a 16-year high. Energy Fuels said in December that it is ramping up uranium production at three mines <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlain</span></a> in in the Grand Canyon, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaSal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaSal</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pandora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pandora</span></a> uranium mines in southeastern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a>.</p><p>"Ore mined from the three mines during 2024 will be stockpiled at the Energy Fuels <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> in Utah for processing in 2025. It is also preparing two mines, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Whirlwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whirlwind</span></a> in southeastern Utah, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NicholsRanch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NicholsRanch</span></a> in central Wyoming, to begin uranium production within one year, Energy Fuels said.</p><p>"Pinyon Plain began uranium mining and is now threatening the water of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> in their homeland in the Grand Canyon. The mine is now endangering Navajo, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a>, Ute, and southwest residents, on the uranium haul route, from the Grand Canyon to the Energy Fuels mill in southeastern Utah.</p><p>"The White Mesa Mill is poisoning the water, land, and air of White Mesa Utes in southeastern Utah. It is now bringing in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> waste from Europe. Nuclear waste at the site was transported here from the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada because it was too deadly to leave there. The Nevada site poisoned the ancestral land of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02</span><span class="invisible">/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a></p>