#aquifer — Public Fediverse posts
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Australian producers tap into growing global fine-water market
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #aquifer #Australia #Australianmineralwater #bottledwater #bottledwaterindustry #Carribie #CarribieBasin #Carribiewater #finewater #FineWaterSociety #mineralwater #NonAlcoholicDrinks #premiumwater #watersommelier #WaterTasting #Wine #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia #YorkePeninsula
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Australian producers tap into growing global fine-water market
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #aquifer #Australia #Australianmineralwater #bottledwater #bottledwaterindustry #Carribie #CarribieBasin #Carribiewater #finewater #FineWaterSociety #mineralwater #NonAlcoholicDrinks #premiumwater #watersommelier #WaterTasting #Wine #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia #YorkePeninsula
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Australian producers tap into growing global fine-water market
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #aquifer #Australia #Australianmineralwater #bottledwater #bottledwaterindustry #Carribie #CarribieBasin #Carribiewater #finewater #FineWaterSociety #mineralwater #NonAlcoholicDrinks #premiumwater #watersommelier #WaterTasting #Wine #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia #YorkePeninsula
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Australian producers tap into growing global fine-water market
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #aquifer #Australia #Australianmineralwater #bottledwater #bottledwaterindustry #Carribie #CarribieBasin #Carribiewater #finewater #FineWaterSociety #mineralwater #NonAlcoholicDrinks #premiumwater #watersommelier #WaterTasting #Wine #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia #YorkePeninsula
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Australian producers tap into growing global fine-water market https://www.diningandcooking.com/2811269/australian-producers-tap-into-growing-global-fine-water-market/ #aquifer #Australia #AustralianMineralWater #AustralianWine #BottledWater #BottledWaterIndustry #Carribie #CarribieBasin #CarribieWater #FineWater #FineWaterSociety #MineralWater #NonAlcoholicDrinks #PremiumWater #WaterSommelier #WaterTasting #Wine #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia #YorkePeninsula
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Australian producers tap into growing global fine-water market https://www.diningandcooking.com/2811269/australian-producers-tap-into-growing-global-fine-water-market/ #aquifer #Australia #AustralianMineralWater #AustralianWine #BottledWater #BottledWaterIndustry #Carribie #CarribieBasin #CarribieWater #FineWater #FineWaterSociety #MineralWater #NonAlcoholicDrinks #PremiumWater #WaterSommelier #WaterTasting #Wine #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia #YorkePeninsula
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Australian producers tap into growing global fine-water market https://www.diningandcooking.com/2811269/australian-producers-tap-into-growing-global-fine-water-market/ #aquifer #Australia #AustralianMineralWater #AustralianWine #BottledWater #BottledWaterIndustry #Carribie #CarribieBasin #CarribieWater #FineWater #FineWaterSociety #MineralWater #NonAlcoholicDrinks #PremiumWater #WaterSommelier #WaterTasting #Wine #WineFromAustralia #WineOfAustralia #YorkePeninsula
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What piece of shite to start the day on social media with. I ask you, what kind of #Grifting brainless entrepreneur would think that there is any sense in sucking up 40,000 megaliters of #water a year from an #aquifer in one of the driest parts of the land on the driest #Continent on earth to stand up an **Intensive** #horticulture business there?
We haven’t seen anything as brainless as this since the Ord River Scheme and cotton industries up North in WA. What kind of madperson even think it is a responsible thing to do? The people behind *Future Agribusiness* are nothing but #NeoLiberal predators looking to profit while raping the land. They don’t give a toss about *Country* and the fragile *ecosystems* on land *Never Ceded* . But I do. In fact, the mojority of this society does care about the land and what is bieng done to it in the name of #NeoLiberalism and #NeoColonialism.
Where is our *Environmental Protection Agency* in all this? Recovering from #Labor Govt death blows no doubt. There is no coming back from this kind of #pillage. Good grief, this is just insane. Here’s hoping the Courts (in reflecting the will of the broader society while adjuticating) will see true justice (in #fascist NT) applied to the benefit of all and not just a few madhats looking to cash up.
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Lakota Horseback Riders Lead the Demand 'Haul No! Shut Down Uranium Mine in Grand Canyon'
"'#HaulNo! #UraniumMining has got to go!' was the protest cry as #Lakota horseback riders led the demand to shut down #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon on Saturday, continuing the demand to shut down the uranium mine endangering #Havasupai drinking #water and their #aquifer. "
Photos by Taylor McKinnon, #CenterForBiologicalDiversity near sacred Red Butte on Saturday.
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 24, 2024
"The legacy of death from uranium mining already spreads across the Southwest. Scattered #radioactive tailings are spread across the #NavajoNation from #ColdWar #uranium mines, which the U.S. has not cleaned up. The dangerous processing mill in southeastern #Utah is now bringing in radioactive waste from Europe.
"The genocide continues -- from the genocide in #Palestine that the United States is producing weapons for, to the slow and toxic genocide in the Southwest -- where the U.S. allows uranium mining to continue.
"Nearby, lithium mining in Hualapai's Ceremonial Place has been halted.
Federal Judge Diane Humetewa, Hopi, granted a temporary restraining order this week and halted the Interior Department's permit for an Australian company, #HawkstoneEnergy aka #ArizonaLithium, to mine for lithium at Hualapai's Ceremonial Sacred Spring."Attorneys for the #BidenAdministration and Interior Sec. #DebHaaland told the federal court in Phoenix that the #LithiumMining at Hualapai's #CeremonialSpring was necessary for the 'transition to #GreenEnergy.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/lakota-horseback-riders-lead-demand.html#WaterIsLife #NuclearColonialism #DefendTheSacred #LithiuMining #NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Greenwasing#PinyonPlainUraniumMine
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Advocates demand halt to #uranium #mine near the #GrandCanyon
#EnergyFuels says #nuclear power is necessary to fight #ClimateChange, but #Indigenous tribes fear losing their homes
By Matthew Rozsa
January 31, 2024"The Grand Canyon truly lives up to its name, being the largest canyon on Earth and one of the most popular national parks in America. But due to #UraniumMining in the area, some advocates are warning it could become the site of a future #EnvironmentalDisaster, which threatens to make one Indigenous village 'extinct.'
"More than 80 groups signed onto a statement on Monday — representing Indigenous communities, scientists and environmental nonprofits such as the #SierraClub and the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity — directed at President #JoeBiden and #Arizona Gov. #KatieHobbs, demanding they close the #PinyonPlain uranium mine, which is located near the Grand Canyon.
"'We have a choice in front of us. Allowing the Pinyon Plain mine to proceed is subjecting this landscape and its interconnected waters to a legacy of devastation and disregarding the rights of the #IndigenousPeoples on the land,' Sanober Mirza, Arizona program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, said in the statement. 'Or we can choose a different path — one that holds a promise of protecting the Grand Canyon’s cultural sanctity, its people and natural resources.'
"To understand why the mine's opponents feel so strongly, one can turn to #AmberReimondo, who work as energy director at a conservationist non-profit called the #GrandCanyonTrust. Reimondo explained to Salon by email that, on the one hand, #Biden permanently banned mining operations on nearly 1 million acres of federal managed lands by creating the #BaajNwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in August 2023. Yet the Pinyon Plain mine was #exempt from this prohibition, and Reimondo argues that the impact on the region has been 'several fold.'
"'What they've created here is a long-term, slow motion #EnvironmentalDisaster."
"'The Grand Canyon region as a whole and especially the location of the mine, is deeply significant to Indigenous cultures and is a place where tribal members have conducted #ceremonies, collected medicine, hunted, and more, for centuries,' Reimondo said. 'The mine also overlies critical and complex [and] not well understood groundwater systems. One #aquifer in particular — the #RedWallMuavAquifer — is the sole source of water for the remote #HavasupaiVillage of #Supai inside the Grand Canyon. The mine poses a #contamination threat to these #groundwater resources not just today, but importantly, after the mine's mere 28-month operational lifespan has concluded and the mining operator 'cleans up' and moves on.'
"Supai is so remote, it's only accessible only by helicopter or an 8-mile mule ride or hike, Reimondo explained, noting that if the newly-oxygenated groundwater comes into contact with nearby rocks, minerals like #arsenic and #uranium will be dissolved by the groundwater and enter aquifers used by the local community and essential to local ecology, including #HavasuFalls. Taylor McKinnon, Southwest Director for the Center for Biological Diversity, expressed similar concerns.
"'Ultimately, this mine is going to require political leadership,' McKinnon told Salon in an interview, referring to both the Biden and #Hobbs administrations. 'Those administration's agencies have the authority to fix this problem if they so choose, and that's what they should do.'
"We have detailed strenuously for years that neither regulators nor industry can ensure against the permanent and irretrievable damage to Grand Canyon's aquifers and springs," McKinnon added. "This mine was approved originally in 1986, under a record of decision from the US Forest Service under a presumption that it was highly unlikely that the mine would encounter groundwater, and further unlikely that if it did, it had the potential to contaminate deeper aquifers in the springs that they feed. Subsequent state permitting from the #ArizonaDepartment OfEnvironmentalQuality has basically parroted those same assumptions.'
"Yet McKinnon alleges that in 2016 the mine punctured a perched aquifer, causing roughly 10 million gallons of water per year to drain into the mine workings. From there he asserts that a surface pond formed with water that has concentrations of uranium and arsenic far in excess of the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA)'s water quality standards. Not only does this threaten the local endangered and endemic species, but it also impacts the nearby Havasupai tribe.
"Havasupai means 'people of the blue-green water,' McKinnon said. "It's their longstanding cultural identity, and it is the water they drink, they farm with and that provides for all of their tourism economy because it is this just a beautiful series of massive verdant waterfalls that flow through the village and down into a series of waterfalls and pools where people camp and they derive tourism dollars.'
"In a 2022 letter of opposition, the Havasupai Tribal Council, laid out what is at stake in the uranium mining controversy.
"'Our identity as a people is intrinsically intertwined with the health of #HavasuCreek and the environment to which it gives life,' the tribe’s letter explained. 'We use this water for drinking, #gardening and irrigating, municipal uses, and #cultural and #religious uses. If the water source becomes contaminated like we have seen in other areas of Arizona due to uranium mining, we will no longer be able to live in our homes and Supai Village will become extinct.'
"These fears are based on precedent. The nearby #NavajoNation is scattered with old uranium mines — over 500, in fact — awaiting cleanup, exposing locals to risk of '#LungCancer from inhalation of #radioactive particles, as well as #BoneCancer and impaired kidney function from exposure to #radionuclides in drinking water,' according to the EPA. Likewise, members of the #UteMountain #Ute tribe in #WhiteMesa, Utah have protested against uranium mines they say have contaminated local groundwater, air and even wildlife."
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/31/advocates-demand-halt-to-uranium-mine-near-the-grand-canyon/
#NoNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #NoMining #UraniumMining #NuclearPowerNoThanks #IndigenousActivism
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#IndigenousPeoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: #NativeHawaiians want the US military out
By Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
July 19, 2023"GENEVA -- Native #Hawaiians want the US military off their lands, and training exercises in the #Pacific shut down. An #aquifer has been poisoned in #Hawaii, and unexploded ordinances left behind are endangering their lives.
"Appealing to the United Nations in Geneva, Indigenous in Guam also want the #US military off their lands. The Pacific Indigenous Women's Network urged the United Nations General Assembly to join the effort for the removal of the US military from #Guam.
"#Indigenous are offering testimony today, and all week, before the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, of the UN #HumanRights Council.
"Around the world, #IndigenousPeoples are under attack by military forces. In #Colombia there are land mines.
"In Peru, the military is attacking, torturing, and killing, those who are isolated and have marched against the current government. More than 40 people, including Indigenous children, have died since protests began in #Peru in December.
"#Indigenous in #Guatemala echoed those descriptions of militarized force.
"Throughout the #Amazon, military forces are killing the people, and seizing the land under the guise of the war on drugs. Indigenous lands are being stolen for illegal #logging and #mining."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/indigenous-peoples-under-attack-by.html