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  1. The Emerald Mile "The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon" Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by Kevin Fedarko Rating: 4.7/5 (4,467 Reviews) #grandcanyon #riveradventure #history #outdoors #adventure #booksky #nonfiction #travel #books #boating

    The Emerald Mile

  2. We all knew this could happen!!!

    #Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered #Navajos near #Shonto on #NavajoNation

    May 11, 2026, via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com

    "A uranium ore haul truck traveling from a uranium mine in the Havasupai's homeland in the Grand Canyon, to a mill site in the White Mesa Ute's community in Utah, was struck by a vehicle, which exposes the danger from the #radioactive haul trucks covered only with tarps. The trucks travel from #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, from #Havasupai ancestral land, through #Flagstaff, and across #Navajo and #Hopi lands before reaching Energy Fuels mill site on Ute ancestral land in #Utah." -- Censored News

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/05

    #USPol #NativeAmericanNews #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMilling #NuclearColonialism #TheLongFight #WhiteMesa #Ute #WhiteMesaUte #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
    #PinyonPlain #IndigenousRights
    #NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred
    #WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesaMill #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
    #WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
    #NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
    #UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
    #DefendTheSacred #Environment
    #EnvironmentalRacism

  3. A Walk in the Park "The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon" Sale: $22 to $2.99 by Kevin Fedarko Rating: 4.6/5 (2,955 Reviews) #grandcanyon #hiking #adventure #travel #books #nonfiction #biography #outdoors #booksky

    A Walk in the Park

  4. A Walk in the Park "Pete and I were so keen to lower ourselves off the exposed ledge we’d been stumbling across for the past hour" Sale: $22 to $2.99 by Kevin Fedarko Rating: 4.6/5 (2,938 Reviews) #grandcanyon #adventure #travel #hiking #survival #nonfiction #books #booksky #biography #outdoors

    A Walk in the Park

  5. The Emerald Mile: Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon "Thou shalt not” is soon forgotten, but “Once upon a time” lasts forever Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by Kevin Fedarko Rating: 4.7/5 (4,461 Reviews) #Adventure #History #GrandCanyon #River #Boating #Nature #Nonfiction #Books #Outdoors #BookSky

    The Emerald Mile: The Epic Sto...

  6. #GifsArtidote: i am just starting to watch this video of the #POVchannel searching for the #GlenCanyon in the #GrandCanyon where human secrets lie thousands of years old.

    if i can ever safely enter #TurtleIsland, i want to go there.

    youtu.be/A4fsdWS5H4M?

    #MENtalhealth #recovery #CPTSD #BPD #DysthymicDisorder #fibro

  7. #GifsArtidote: i am just starting to watch this video of the #POVchannel searching for the #GlenCanyon in the #GrandCanyon where human secrets lie thousands of years old.

    if i can ever safely enter #TurtleIsland, i want to go there.

    youtu.be/A4fsdWS5H4M?

    #MENtalhealth #recovery #CPTSD #BPD #DysthymicDisorder #fibro

  8. Forever Chemicals And Medications Detected In National Park Waters
    --
    sfgate.com/national-parks/arti <-- shared technical/media article
    --
    doi.org/10.3133/sir20255095 <-- shared (USGS) Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5095
    --
    [I still remember a talk that @RelaenaSindelar gave about pharmaceuticals in the waste stream; one of her examples was Sequim, WA - in the banana belt - with retirement communities' flushed medications’ and the downstream/coastal effects - NOT the Grand Canyon! :( ]
    #water #hydrology #waterquality #southrim #grandcanyon #USA #PFAs #foreverchemicals #pharmaceuticals #pharmaceuticalsinthewastestream #NationalPark #waterresources #wastewater #effluent #springs #perfluoroalkyl #polyfluoroalkyl #medications #groundwater #infiltration #humanhealth #ecosystem #humanimpacts
    #USGS #NPS

  9. via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com

    #NavajoNation Targeted Again for Sacrifice Zone: '#Energy Companies Preying on the People'

    #Diné ask: Why is the Navajo Nation allowing energy companies to prey on communities and individuals?

    By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 23, 2024

    "Dine' on the Navajo Nation are now targeted with a push to revitalize dirty coal energy, and a hydropower project that would pump precious water from their aquifer. Dine' question why the Navajo Nation government is allowing energy companies to prey on the communities and individuals.

    "#LouiseBenally of #BigMountain [#KleeBenally's aunt] said the bottom line is greed. 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

    "The new stampede of parasitic energy companies to the Navajo Nation comes at the same time that #radioactive #uranium trucks, covered only with tarps, are traveling across the Navajo Nation, from the #GrandCanyon uranium mine to the mill in the #WhiteMesaUte community in Utah.

    "At the same time, more than 500 #UraniumMines, and scattered radioactive debris, remain on the Navajo Nation, and was never cleaned up by the U.S. government. Dirty coal mines and power plants left the legacy of death and #ForcedRelocation.

    Navajo Council Plans Meeting on Revitalizing Coal Industry

    "Citing #Trump's push for new #CoalMining, the #NavajoNationCouncil plans to hold a public hearing on
    revitalizing the coal industry.

    "The Navajo Nation Council announced the public hearing, stating that on April 8 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled, 'Reinvigorating America’s #BeautifulCleanCoal Industry
    and Amending Executive Order 14241' aimed at reversing past federal policies, to boost the coal industry and to strengthen the country’s national energy security, according to the White House.

    "The public hearing is scheduled in Forest Lake Chapter on Friday, May 30. Louise Benally and her family spent their lives battling #PeabodyCoal and resisting forced relocation at Big Mountain on #BlackMesa. She said what Trump is doing is another chapter in the assault on the land and people.

    " 'Pl 93-531 is a law created by #BarryGoldwater to target our rights to water and land base to be taken away. He developed that law so, with what Trump is trying to do is no different.'

    " 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

    " 'The American political system is not our government as traditional people which is where all our modern day problems come from in the form of an endless greed to keep eating up the earth and the natural resources.'

    "Louise questioned Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren's support of Trump and coal mining in Washington, and Nygren's agreement for uranium trucks to cross the Navajo Nation. 'The Navajo Nation government is at a crossroads. Buu has been taken by Trump, and the people he is supposed to be responsible for are in question.'

    " 'He has been taken into the bag of greed -- uranium and coal yet, there is no water. We want accountability.' "

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05

    #Diné #Dineh #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople
    #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #EnergyFuels
    #Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo
    #Havasupai #UraniumMines
    #EnvironmentalRacism #WhiteMesaMill #NukingTheNavajo #NukingTheUte #Ute #Paiute #Hopi #BidiiRoots #DineCARE #Havasupai #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #UraniumTransport #RadioactiveDust #RememberKleeBenally #BigCoal #DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally
    #HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent

  10. #FlagstaffAZ: Radioactive #Uranium Truck Driver in Medical Distress: Endangerment on the Haul Route

    by Shannonlynn Chester,,May 8, 2025, #CensoredNews

    Excerpt: "The Navajo Nation, law enforcement and the mainstream media downplayed the risks today to Navajos and everyone on the haul route.

    "This comes after Navajo President #BuuNygren cut a secret deal with #EnergyFuels for the uranium transport trucks to pass through the Navajo Nation.
    Nygren released a statement about the sick truck driver. Nygren said the Navajo Nation EPA coordinated with the Coconino County Sheriff's Office and the Flagstaff Fire Department. The Fire Department conducted radiation scans on the truck and said that the radiation levels at the location were within safe limits.

    "Three other uranium ore trucks at the designated inspection site were allowed to pass and continue to the White Mesa Mill, Nygren said.

    Energy Fuels notified the Navajo Nation EPA at 11:40 a.m. that the fourth truck -- whose driver was sick -- returned back to the Pinyon Plain Mine, Nygren said.
    Coconino County Sheriff Bret Axlund said the truck driver had "flu-like symptoms" and refused medical transport from the site. An ambulance was called to the site, just north of Flagstaff, in the area of Hwy 89 and Townsend Winona Road.

    "Earlier, the Navajo Nation Council said President Nygren entered into a secret deal with Energy Fuels, without the knowledge or consent of the #NavajoCouncil, to allow the uranium ore trucks to pass through the Navajo Nation from the #GrandCanyon mine enroute to Utah.

    "More than 500 uranium mines and scattered radioactive waste remain on the Navajo Nation, which the U.S. never cleaned up after the #coldwar, resulting in widespread cancer for Dine'."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05

    #HaulNo #ReaderSupportedNews #WhiteMesaMill #Ute #Dine #BidiiRoots #DineCARE #NukingTheNavajo #NukingTheUte #WaterIsLife
    #LandIsLife #Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo
    #Havasupai #UraniumMines
    #EnvironmentalRacism
    #PinyonPlainUraniumMine
    #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #UraniumTransport #RadioactiveDust #NoMiningWithoutConsent #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople

  11. #Radioactive #Uranium Trucks -- Slick Politicians and Easy-Chair Journalists
    Endanger Public

    Article by #BrendaNorrell, Censored News, April 17, 2025

    "The copy and paste journalists, and the slick politicians doing self-promotion selfies on social media, don't want the public to know the facts.

    "This is #PinyonPlainUraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, poisoning the air, land and water in the homeland of the #Havasupai.

    "The #UraniumMine is spewing out #RadioactiveDust for the world travelers who love this place, poisoning traditional medicine plants, and endangering the aquifer for future generations.

    "#Navajo President #BuuNygren secretly did a deal with the owners, #EnergyFuels, to bring radioactive #uranium ore trucks through the #NavajoNation, without the #NavajoNationCouncil's knowledge.

    "This agreement for radioactive trucks, shown here [at the link below], is an extreme danger for everyone on the transport route -- #Havasupai, #Paiute, #Dine', #Hopi, #Ute, and the residents of #FlagstaffAZ.

    "Remote Native communities have no way to deal with radioactive spills.

    "The radioactive trucks are covered only with tarps and dump their loads in the #WhiteMesaUte community in southeastern #Utah."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04

    #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #PinyonPlain #NoMiningWithoutConsent
    #DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #DontNukeTheFuture #Diné #ReaderSupportedNews #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople

  12. 🚨 Alert: #RadioactiveUranium Trucks on the #NavajoNation Today (2/12)

    "A banner on the deadly haul route today, Wednesday, as two radioactive uranium transport trucks pass by Dine' homes in #TubaCity on the Navajo Nation. #Dine' families said they had no warning and the #NavajoGovernment sold them out."

    By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 12, 2025
    Live and Updating

    TUBA CITY, Navajo Nation -- "#EnergyFuels #radioactive #UraniumWaste trucks passed through the Navajo Nation today, following a secretive agreement between the Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels.

    "Two radioactive uranium waste trucks passed through #TubaCity headed to the uranium mill in the #WhiteMesaUte community, between 11 a.m. and noon today.

    "In a region still strewn with #RadioactiveWaste from the #ColdWar, and gas and oil wells choking the people -- now uranium waste being transported by Dine' homes with only a tarp [!!!] covering tons of radioactive waste. The trucks are dumping their loads in the White Mesa #Ute community at the mill in southeastern #Utah.

    "The secretive agreement between Energy Fuels and the Navajo Nation government, says there will be two to twelve trucks a day with radioactive waste from Energy Fuels #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, for the next three to four years.

    "Navajo Utah Commission members voiced their opposition to the uranium transport during a meeting with Navajo Nation EPA Executive Director #StephenEtsitty in #WindowRock on Tuesday. This comes after Energy Fuels made a public announcement of the agreement with the tribe.

    "The Navajo Utah Commission meeting revealed that Energy Fuels agreed to pay the Navajo Nation government $1.2 million during the negotiations. Dine' in Western Navajo said that Navajo President #BuuNygren showed them how much money their lives are worth: $1.2 million."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
    #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
    #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

  13. #NavajoNation Dishonors Legacy of #KleeBenally: Agrees to #Uranium Transport Through #Navajo Communities

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, February 3, 2025

    "The Navajo Nation dishonored the memory and legacy of Klee Benally by agreeing to allow radioactive uranium trucks to travel through the Navajo Nation. It was what Klee spent the last years of his life fighting against.

    "The deadly trucks from the #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain uranium mine in the #GrandCanyon will pass through the #Havasupai's homeland, and then past the homes of #Paiute, #Dine' and #Hopi in Arizona before reaching the dumping ground: The Energy Fuels #UraniumMill in the #WhiteMesaUte Community in Southern #Utah.

    "Klee is being honored with a #NuclearFreeFutures Award in New York in March.

    "Nuclear Free Futures said, in announcing the award, 'Klee Benally was a Navajo activist and musician and member of the Navajo #Tódichiinii Clan and the #Nakai #Diné Clan. In addition to a
    musical career with his siblings in the band #Blackfire,

    "'Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the #colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender: #IndigenousAnarchy in Defense of the Sacred.'

    "The award will be accepted by his mother Berta Benally.

    "Klee, co-founder of #HaulNo!, warned of the danger to the water and rivers from the uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and the planned deadly transport of radioactive ore, before he passed in
    December 2023: 'There is possible radioactive contamination to land, water, and air from the #CanyonMine, White
    Mesa Mill, and transport of uranium would impact northern Arizona, southeast Utah, the #ColoradoRiver, #MoenkopiWash, the #SanJuanRiver, and the lands and cultural resources of the #Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Ute, and Paiute peoples.'"

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #WhiteMesaUte #EnergyFuels #HaulNo #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
    #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
    #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

  14. #NavajoNation is 'Back Peddling' by Allowing #Uranium Transport through #Dine' Communities and More Dumping on #Utes

    By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 8, 2025

    TUBA CITY -- "#LeonaMorgan, Dine' co-founder of #HaulNo!, said the Navajo Nation is now "back peddling" by allowing radioactive uranium waste to be transported through Dine' communities. This radioactive transport from the #GrandCanyon means even more deadly waste for another Native community -- the #WhiteMesaUte community in #Utah.

    "Now, with little or no information along the haul route, the Navajo government expects the Dine' Chapters on the route to each have an emergency preparedness plan. Leona asked if the Dine' communities are aware of this and whether the Navajo Chapters are certified to deal with radioactive emergencies.

    "'Who are their First Responders?' Ultimately, Dine' will have to confront the Navajo President and the Navajo Department of Justice, she said.
    'We were not included in that agreement,' Leona said of the agreement between the Navajo Nation and #Energy Fuels.

    "'There was no free, prior and informed consent,' Leona said, quoting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP]. 'The people in the communities were not consulted.'

    "'How can they start transporting on February 12th, when there aren't even any checkpoints? We don't even have an #AirMonitoring system,' Leona said of the lack of preparation for radioactive
    transport on the Navajo Nation.
    Energy Fuels plans to pass through Navajo communities with six to ten trucks of radioactive waste,
    beginning on Feb. 12, 2025.

    "Leona urged communities to organize, and pointed out that Navajo Chapters can have their own checkpoints. With the new push for '#DrillBabyDrill,' by the U.S. President, the Navajo Nation faces an uncertain future, she said. The U.S. is investing money into the development of #CriticalEarthMinerals and investing in Energy Fuels mill at White Mesa Ute.

    "'We need to push our government to do what we want -- not what the federal government wants.'

    "'It's going to get worse because they think nuclear is clean energy,' Leona said of the push for alternative energy.

    "The Navajo Nation's agreement with Energy Fuels means more dangerous radioactive dumping in the #WhiteMesaUte community. In the agreement, Energy Fuels states it will transport 10,000 tons of uranium-bearing cleanup materials from abandoned #UraniumMines within the Navajo Nation.

    "Leona was recently voted by the Navajo Nation Council to serve on the Diné #UraniumRemediation Advisory Commission, in an advisory position to the Navajo President and Council.

    "Speaking in #TubaCity on Saturday, Leona said Haul No! began in 2016 when it became known that the Pinyon Plain uranium mine would begin mining in the Grand Canyon. Now, there is the new battle as the Navajo Nation government has approved uranium transport through Navajo communities to the White Mesa Ute community.

    "Energy Fuels #PinyonPlain Mine, and the mill in southern Utah, threaten Native communities throughout the region."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #BuuNygren #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreMining
    #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
    #NoNuclearWeapons
    #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoMining #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
    #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

  15. Community Forum in #TubaCity: #UraniumTransport on Feb. 8, 2025

    via #CensoredNews

    "Join us from 12 -- 2pm for a community dialogue on Saturday, February 8, 2025 in #TubaCityArizona regarding the transport of #uranium ore through our communities. #HaulNo! will help host and facilitate to uplift community concerns. On January 29, 2025, #EnergyFuels announced that it reached an agreement with #NavajoNation was regarding uranium ore transport regulations ending the temporary
    transportation pause. The agreement includes Energy Fuels to take 10,000 tons of abandoned uranium mine (#AUM) waste from Navajo Nation to the #WhiteMesaMill, in #Utah impacting #Ute
    relatives. On January 30, 2025, Energy Fuels announced transport of uranium from #PinyonPlainUraniumMine across Western Navajo Nation to #WhiteMesa Mill to begin on or around February 12, 2025."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #IndigenousAction #IndigenousResistance #NuclearColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #Dine #RestInPowerKleeBenally #NoUraniumTransport #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred #UraniumMine #NoNukes #NuclearFreeWorld #NoNuclear #NoWar #NuclearWaste #NoMoreMining
    #NoMoreTransportationOfUranium
    #NoNuclearWeapons
    #NoNuclearPowerPlants #NoMining #NoUraniumMining #UteNation #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #Havasupai #GrandCanyon #NuclearWeapons #InformedConsent
    #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

  16. @VeroniqueB99
    More examples of how #DonTheCon couldn't be more different from the other presidents on #MountRushmore:

    Teddy Roosevelt served in the military as a Colonel in the NY NatGuard and famously led his troops up San Juan Hill (vs #CaptBoneSpurs & his 5 deferments.)

    Teddy was a virulent #Environmentalist who protected #YellowStone & The #GrandCanyon (T**** reopened the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to drilling.)

    Resumed France's construction of the #PanamaCanal and agreed to SHARE it.

  17. Went to the #grandcanyon for the first time recently. I have a pretty bad fear of falling, but I #hiked down the bright angel trail just enough to see some #nativeamerican #pictographs. Some of them are as old as 4000 years.

    #anthropology #archaeology

  18. Went to the #grandcanyon for the first time recently. I have a pretty bad fear of falling, but I #hiked down the bright angel trail just enough to see some #nativeamerican #pictographs. Some of them are as old as 4000 years.

    #anthropology #archaeology

  19. Went to the #grandcanyon for the first time recently. I have a pretty bad fear of falling, but I #hiked down the bright angel trail just enough to see some #nativeamerican #pictographs. Some of them are as old as 4000 years.

    #anthropology #archaeology

  20. Went to the #grandcanyon for the first time recently. I have a pretty bad fear of falling, but I #hiked down the bright angel trail just enough to see some #nativeamerican #pictographs. Some of them are as old as 4000 years.

    #anthropology #archaeology

  21. Went to the #grandcanyon for the first time recently. I have a pretty bad fear of falling, but I #hiked down the bright angel trail just enough to see some #nativeamerican #petroglyphs. Some of them are as old as 4000 years.

    #anthropology #archaeology

  22. The Silent Killers in #IndianCountry: #Copper, #Lithium, #Uranium and #Plutonium

    Judge finds plutonium plants in #NewMexico and #SouthCarolina violated environmental laws

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 10, 2024

    "The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at #LosAlamos National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge.

    "Continuing the U.S. legacy of poisoning Indian country with #radiation, this comes as the U.S. government is granting leases to foreign #mining companies targeting Native #sacred lands and communities.

    "#CopperMining is targeting San CarlosApache's sacred #OakFlat; #Hualapai are suing the US Department of Interior to halt lithium mining at their sacred spring Ha'Kamwe'; and the U.S. government is promoting the ongoing digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada for #lithium, in violation of all federal laws that protect Native religious and historic sites, the environment and endangered species.

    "Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens #Havasupai's aquifer, the haul route endangers everyone in the Four Corners region, and the uranium mill at White Mesa Ute in #Utah is poisoning #Utes.

    "Interior Sec. #DebHaaland said in Farmington, N.M., that Los Alamos Labs would be the leader in the so-called '#GreenEnergy transition' in the #FourCorners region.

    "More than 500 radioactive #UraniumMill sites remain on the #NavajoNation that have not been cleaned up by the U.S. #EPA, which deceives the public by announcing plans and promises to clean up the #ColdWar sites.

    "In the current federal lawsuit, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the #environment in efforts to increase plutonium production for nuclear weapons in New Mexico and South Carolina.

    "'South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, #AntiNuclear proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration (#NNSA), which oversees the nuclear weapons stockpile as part of the U.S. Department of Energy [#DOE],' reports Source New Mexico.

    "The U.S. is investing billions into restarting the manufacture of #PlutoniumPits, the grapefruit-sized spheres developed for #nuclear weapons. The plutonium is produced from uranium.

    "'The federal government halted its manufacturing program at the #RockyFlatsPlant in #Colorado in 1989 after an FBI raid due to safety concerns and #EnvironmentalCrimes,' Source New Mexico reports.

    "The U.S. government's #AtomicBombTesting in #Nevada left a trail of cancer and death for #WesternShoshone. The documentary 'Downwind' reveals the truth.

    "'This is a very serious issue and that's why I can't let it go. I can't move on. People say, 'oh, why don't you just let it go?' Because it's killing my family. It's killing my land. It's killing my people. And that will not stand. It's being done in secret. And killing Indians in secret will not stand,' said Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation of Indians. Zabarte is featured in '#Downwind' about radiation poisoning from U.S. #NuclearTests.

    "Currently, foreign companies -- which receive the profits and find it easy to avoid clean up and responsibility for #environmental crimes and deaths from #cancer -- are receiving the mining leases from the U.S. government. The leases are granted by the U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the case of #UraniumMining in the #GrandCanyon, it is the USDA's Forestry Service. #Biden's attorneys have joined the lawsuit with #RioTinto to devastate #OakFlat.

    "Australian and Canadian mining corporations are devastating Native lands and communities, poisoning the water and causing widespread cancer.
    Rio Tinto, targeting Apaches #OakFlat, is an Australian company which destroyed 46,000 years of #Aboriginal sacred history in caves in #Australia.

    "Another Australian mining company is targeting #Hualapai's sacred site. It is #Hawstone / #ArizonaLithium, in Perth, Australia.

    "#EnergyFuels, now uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and operating the uranium mill at #WhiteMesaUte, is a Canadian company. Another Canadian company is digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site. It is #LithiumAmericas.
    #Hopi judge #DianeHumetewa granted a temporary restraining order to halt the lithium mining at #Hualapai's sacred spring."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10

    #NoUraniumMining #CopperMining #LithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #NoWar #NoNukes #NuclearWeapons #RecycleCopper #RecycleLithium #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #DefendTheSacred #WhiteMesaMill #Ute #AtomicBomb #CulturalGenocide #Genocide #FirstNations #NativeAmericanNews #SuperfundSites #ToxicWaste #SaveOakFlat #OpenPitMining #Pollution #ReaderSupportedNews

  23. What's going on in #IndianCountry?!!

    Joy Rides into the Stratosphere, and #MilitaryIntelligence: Helium Balloons over #Navajo and #Lakota Nations, Indian Country

    "#WorldView also announced a partnership with the military defense contractor #SierraNevada for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, for the U.S. military using its balloons. One of these balloon flights was for the U.K. defense department in the Grand Canyon."

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Sept. 5, 2024

    "Joy rides into the stratosphere, and military surveillance, are two of the purposes for the helium balloons over the #NavajoNation, #LakotaNations in #SouthDakota, and most of Indian country, according to the owners of the helium balloons.

    "#TheGuardian exposed the helium balloons #spying platforms and the #ACLU in South Dakota warned of this #surveillance. The balloons are capable of video recording vehicles traveling to #protests, and can reveal where the vehicles arrived from. It's spying without a warrant.

    "The balloon owners, Aerostar and World View, have U.S. military contracts for recovering payloads, as was the case with World View's experimental payload recovery in the #GrandCanyon for England's defense department. These balloons can also carry out ground surveys.

    "Aerostar is based near #SiouxFalls, South Dakota, and World View is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09

    #WarrantlessSpying #NativeAmericanActivists #AntiProtestLaws #BigMining #ClimateActivists #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #Environment #AntiProtest #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #SpyBalloons

  24. Wow, no water at the Grand Canyon, so they are shutting down the hotels.

    Grand Canyon National Park to Temporarily Close Overnight Hotel Accommodations Beginning August 29

    "Since July 8, the park has faced challenges with water supply, and currently, no water is being pumped to either the South or North Rim. "

    nps.gov/grca/learn/news/tempor

    #GrandCanyonNationalPark #GrandCanyon #NPS #water

  25. #HavasupaiRally on #WorldWaterDay: Protecting #SacredWater from #UraniumMining

    March 26, 2024
    By #HaulNo!
    Photos by Xipe Rivera, #CensoredNews

    "HAVASUPAI -- #Havasupai reaffirms commitment to protect sacred homelands from destructive #uranium mining with prayer and rally on Friday, March 22, 2024. Haul No! volunteer #XipeRivera delivers critical updates and unwavered support from Haul No!

    "On World Water Day, I had the opportunity to visit the Havasupai Tribal Lands as a representative of #HaulNo! and join the Tribal Leaders, the Children and the Elders in prayer and rally against the #PinyonPlainUraniumMine.
    The village is tucked deep in the #GrandCanyon and is not accessible by road - you must hike in or be flown in by helicopter. This was a profound experience. A soft and fierce reminder. An affirmation of why it is we do what we do."

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03

    #NativeAmericanActivists #NoUraniumMining #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #NativeAmericanNews

  26. 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."

    salon.com/2024/01/31/advocates

    #NoNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #NoMining #UraniumMining #NuclearPowerNoThanks #IndigenousActivism

  27. This hits home for me. I worked with Klee's family and provided #MutualAid when I was reporting on #BigMountainResistance years ago. My heart goes out to the Benally family and all those whose lives he touched. #RestInPower Klee. Link to fundraisers via #IndigenousAction at the end of the post.

    Warrior #KleeBenally Never Surrendered: A Life of #RevolutionaryLove, Resounding '#RegainYourPower

    by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, January 2, 2024

    "Our hearts are broken by the sudden passing of our friend Klee Benally. Reflecting on Klee's life, we remember the words of #CheGuevara that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

    "Klee never surrendered, he never surrendered to #capitalism, the media, or the forces of conformity that sought to change who he was.

    "Ultimately, Klee taught us to regain our power, regardless of the road that led us to the present.

    "#LouiseBenally, #Dine' of Big Mountain, said, 'Klee was our spokesman and leader. His departure only means we have to rise and carry on the work for justice for #nature and humanity. I will miss him Greatly and Honor him highly.'

    "His roots come from Big Mountain, grandson of the late #RobertaBlackgoat.

    "'He was an honorable young leader, well respected and moved with a lot of compassion. My nephew brother and my leader. A truly beautiful and amazing person who really lived up to his beliefs, and was not driven by money but by needs and concern, a real warrior.

    "'He was our shining Star, he will continue to shine on us from the other side.

    "'He always honored me, I will miss that,' Louise said.

    "#MichelleCook, Dine', said, "We are deeply saddened and shocked by the news of the passing of our beloved warrior Klee Benally. We ask for prayers for his family during this time. For decades Klee led an uncompromising position, for the liberation of our peoples and lands developing and synthesizing an embodied praxis of #Indigenous-based political, economic, and social resistance against all forms of #SettlerColonialism that degrades people and the planet.

    "Klee was our North Star guiding with his heart and mind. While some may not have shared his positions, no one can question his dedication, determination, and sheer drive to protect his people despite the risks and danger.

    "He risked his life through forms of #CivilDisobedience and #DirectAction to protect our Dook’o’oosłiid, #HolyMountain, from development to maintain our ceremonial practices and way of life.

    "Klee taught us all to be brave to fight against #genocide, the co-optation of our movements by the non-profit #IndustrialComplex. To be steadfast in what is right and wrong. To honor our ancient law and the sacred teachings of our ancestors and Grandmothers. His departure leaves a void in #DinehNation and #IndianCountry," Michelle said.

    "Now with his absence from this material plane, we have no choice but to pick up his work, pick up the slack, carry on, and continue our journey as Dineh in a beautiful way.

    "Klee's development and articulations of Indigenous peoples and archaism remain relevant for social movements within and outside of #TurtleIsland.

    "He will forever remain in our hearts and minds as a guiding light and a growling voice, screaming freedom, for our earth and peoples. We love you Klee.

    "Rest now our sacred warrior. Your work is done. We are so proud of the legacy you cultivated and left for this world. Journey well our sweet warrior until we meet again in the great Star Camp beyond," Michelle said.

    "Klee passed to the Spirit World on Sunday, after being hospitalized.

    "We send our sincere condolences to his family, his wife Princess, family Jones, Berta, Jeneda and Clayson, and all those who knew and loved him.

    "From locking down in U.S. #BorderPatrol headquarters in Tucson, to chaining himself to equipment in defense of Sacred San Francisco Peaks, to battling the auctioneers of the sacred ceremonial items in Paris, and leading the #HaulNo movement to protect the #GrandCanyon region from #UraniumMining, to feeding the #unsheltered in Flagstaff, and standing strong for #Palestine, Klee's powerful actions remain a moving force to resound, and rivet us all, to struggle for a world without compromise.

    "Klee recognized that the non-profit industry was designed to water down the resistance and turn the sacred movements into an ATM machine for a select few.

    "Fly high, my sweet friend."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/01

    indigenousaction.org/donations

    #Dineh #IndigenousActivist #NativeAmericanActivist #FirstNations #IndigenousAnarchist #Resistance #ClimateJustice #ClimateWarrior