#tailings — Public Fediverse posts
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Der neue Uranatlas 2026 ist erschienen:
64 Seiten, Daten und Fakten über den Rohstoff des Atomzeitalters.
#Abraumhalden
#AtomareAufruestung
#Atomausstieg
#Atombomben
#Atomkraft
#Atommuell
#Atomsprengkoepfe
#Atomtests
#Atomtests
#Atomwaffen
#Brennelementeherstellung
#DepleatedUranium
#Endlager
#ErneuerbareEnergien
#InSituLeaching
#Kernenergie
#Kernspaltung
#Reaktorkatastrophen
#Reaktortypen
#SmallModularReaktoren
#Tailings
#UranAbhaengigkeiten
#Urananreicherung
#Uranbergbau
#Uranmunition
#Uranproduktion
#Uranwirtschaft
#Wiederaufbereitung
#YellowcakeHerausgegeben von: Nuclear Free Future Foundation (NFFF), Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Umweltstiftung Greenpeace und .ausgestrahlt.
Download z. B. unter: https://www.bund.net/service/publikationen/detail/publication/uranatlas-2026/
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Der neue Uranatlas 2026 ist erschienen:
64 Seiten, Daten und Fakten über den Rohstoff des Atomzeitalters.
#Abraumhalden
#AtomareAufruestung
#Atomausstieg
#Atombomben
#Atomkraft
#Atommuell
#Atomsprengkoepfe
#Atomtests
#Atomtests
#Atomwaffen
#Brennelementeherstellung
#DepleatedUranium
#Endlager
#ErneuerbareEnergien
#InSituLeaching
#Kernenergie
#Kernspaltung
#Reaktorkatastrophen
#Reaktortypen
#SmallModularReaktoren
#Tailings
#UranAbhaengigkeiten
#Urananreicherung
#Uranbergbau
#Uranmunition
#Uranproduktion
#Uranwirtschaft
#Wiederaufbereitung
#YellowcakeHerausgegeben von: Nuclear Free Future Foundation (NFFF), Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Umweltstiftung Greenpeace und .ausgestrahlt.
Download z. B. unter: https://www.bund.net/service/publikationen/detail/publication/uranatlas-2026/
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Der neue Uranatlas 2026 ist erschienen:
64 Seiten, Daten und Fakten über den Rohstoff des Atomzeitalters.
#Abraumhalden
#AtomareAufruestung
#Atomausstieg
#Atombomben
#Atomkraft
#Atommuell
#Atomsprengkoepfe
#Atomtests
#Atomtests
#Atomwaffen
#Brennelementeherstellung
#DepleatedUranium
#Endlager
#ErneuerbareEnergien
#InSituLeaching
#Kernenergie
#Kernspaltung
#Reaktorkatastrophen
#Reaktortypen
#SmallModularReaktoren
#Tailings
#UranAbhaengigkeiten
#Urananreicherung
#Uranbergbau
#Uranmunition
#Uranproduktion
#Uranwirtschaft
#Wiederaufbereitung
#YellowcakeHerausgegeben von: Nuclear Free Future Foundation (NFFF), Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Umweltstiftung Greenpeace und .ausgestrahlt.
Download z. B. unter: https://www.bund.net/service/publikationen/detail/publication/uranatlas-2026/
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Der neue Uranatlas 2026 ist erschienen:
64 Seiten, Daten und Fakten über den Rohstoff des Atomzeitalters.
#Abraumhalden
#AtomareAufruestung
#Atomausstieg
#Atombomben
#Atomkraft
#Atommuell
#Atomsprengkoepfe
#Atomtests
#Atomtests
#Atomwaffen
#Brennelementeherstellung
#DepleatedUranium
#Endlager
#ErneuerbareEnergien
#InSituLeaching
#Kernenergie
#Kernspaltung
#Reaktorkatastrophen
#Reaktortypen
#SmallModularReaktoren
#Tailings
#UranAbhaengigkeiten
#Urananreicherung
#Uranbergbau
#Uranmunition
#Uranproduktion
#Uranwirtschaft
#Wiederaufbereitung
#YellowcakeHerausgegeben von: Nuclear Free Future Foundation (NFFF), Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Umweltstiftung Greenpeace und .ausgestrahlt.
Download z. B. unter: https://www.bund.net/service/publikationen/detail/publication/uranatlas-2026/
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Der neue Uranatlas 2026 ist erschienen:
64 Seiten, Daten und Fakten über den Rohstoff des Atomzeitalters.
#Abraumhalden
#AtomareAufruestung
#Atomausstieg
#Atombomben
#Atomkraft
#Atommuell
#Atomsprengkoepfe
#Atomtests
#Atomtests
#Atomwaffen
#Brennelementeherstellung
#DepleatedUranium
#Endlager
#ErneuerbareEnergien
#InSituLeaching
#Kernenergie
#Kernspaltung
#Reaktorkatastrophen
#Reaktortypen
#SmallModularReaktoren
#Tailings
#UranAbhaengigkeiten
#Urananreicherung
#Uranbergbau
#Uranmunition
#Uranproduktion
#Uranwirtschaft
#Wiederaufbereitung
#YellowcakeHerausgegeben von: Nuclear Free Future Foundation (NFFF), Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Umweltstiftung Greenpeace und .ausgestrahlt.
Download z. B. unter: https://www.bund.net/service/publikationen/detail/publication/uranatlas-2026/
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How pit lakes are helping reclamation in Alberta’s oil sands
In the heart of Alberta’s oil sands region, a lake sits next to Suncor Energy’s Mildred Lake operation. …
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #CanadianEnergy #Innovation #latest #Oilsands #reclamation #Science #tailings
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/447095/ -
🧪 The “Oversaturation Illusion” in Kryvbas Mine Waters
While modeling Kryvbas water chemistry (R + PHREEQC), I found a fundamental issue in how saturation is often evaluated.
We usually calculate calcite equilibrium from ion concentrations — fine for fresh water.
But Kryvbas mine waters are brines, where ionic strength and complexation dominate.📉 Results from ~1000 samples (minteq.v4):
- Once salinity exceeds ~3 g/L, Ca²⁺ activity drops sharply.
- At 15–20 g/L, calcium activity coefficient is ≈ 0.35.Meaning: more than half of the “calcium concentration” is inert — a dead load that cannot form precipitates.
This explains why traditional methods predicted oversaturation where the water was actually aggressive and dissolving rocks.
Modeling: PHREEQC + minteq.v4 (US EPA), Davis equation.
#Hydrogeochemistry #WaterChemistry #PHREEQC #Geochemistry #Groundwater
#Mining #Tailings #IonActivity #Thermodynamics #Kryvbas #OpenScience #RStats #SvystunovaGully -
🧪 The “Oversaturation Illusion” in Kryvbas Mine Waters
While modeling Kryvbas water chemistry (R + PHREEQC), I found a fundamental issue in how saturation is often evaluated.
We usually calculate calcite equilibrium from ion concentrations — fine for fresh water.
But Kryvbas mine waters are brines, where ionic strength and complexation dominate.📉 Results from ~1000 samples (minteq.v4):
- Once salinity exceeds ~3 g/L, Ca²⁺ activity drops sharply.
- At 15–20 g/L, calcium activity coefficient is ≈ 0.35.Meaning: more than half of the “calcium concentration” is inert — a dead load that cannot form precipitates.
This explains why traditional methods predicted oversaturation where the water was actually aggressive and dissolving rocks.
Modeling: PHREEQC + minteq.v4 (US EPA), Davis equation.
#Hydrogeochemistry #WaterChemistry #PHREEQC #Geochemistry #Groundwater
#Mining #Tailings #IonActivity #Thermodynamics #Kryvbas #OpenScience #RStats #SvystunovaGully -
🧪 The “Oversaturation Illusion” in Kryvbas Mine Waters
While modeling Kryvbas water chemistry (R + PHREEQC), I found a fundamental issue in how saturation is often evaluated.
We usually calculate calcite equilibrium from ion concentrations — fine for fresh water.
But Kryvbas mine waters are brines, where ionic strength and complexation dominate.📉 Results from ~1000 samples (minteq.v4):
- Once salinity exceeds ~3 g/L, Ca²⁺ activity drops sharply.
- At 15–20 g/L, calcium activity coefficient is ≈ 0.35.Meaning: more than half of the “calcium concentration” is inert — a dead load that cannot form precipitates.
This explains why traditional methods predicted oversaturation where the water was actually aggressive and dissolving rocks.
Modeling: PHREEQC + minteq.v4 (US EPA), Davis equation.
#Hydrogeochemistry #WaterChemistry #PHREEQC #Geochemistry #Groundwater
#Mining #Tailings #IonActivity #Thermodynamics #Kryvbas #OpenScience #RStats #SvystunovaGully -
🧪 The “Oversaturation Illusion” in Kryvbas Mine Waters
While modeling Kryvbas water chemistry (R + PHREEQC), I found a fundamental issue in how saturation is often evaluated.
We usually calculate calcite equilibrium from ion concentrations — fine for fresh water.
But Kryvbas mine waters are brines, where ionic strength and complexation dominate.📉 Results from ~1000 samples (minteq.v4):
- Once salinity exceeds ~3 g/L, Ca²⁺ activity drops sharply.
- At 15–20 g/L, calcium activity coefficient is ≈ 0.35.Meaning: more than half of the “calcium concentration” is inert — a dead load that cannot form precipitates.
This explains why traditional methods predicted oversaturation where the water was actually aggressive and dissolving rocks.
Modeling: PHREEQC + minteq.v4 (US EPA), Davis equation.
#Hydrogeochemistry #WaterChemistry #PHREEQC #Geochemistry #Groundwater
#Mining #Tailings #IonActivity #Thermodynamics #Kryvbas #OpenScience #RStats #SvystunovaGully -
🧪 The “Oversaturation Illusion” in Kryvbas Mine Waters
While modeling Kryvbas water chemistry (R + PHREEQC), I found a fundamental issue in how saturation is often evaluated.
We usually calculate calcite equilibrium from ion concentrations — fine for fresh water.
But Kryvbas mine waters are brines, where ionic strength and complexation dominate.📉 Results from ~1000 samples (minteq.v4):
- Once salinity exceeds ~3 g/L, Ca²⁺ activity drops sharply.
- At 15–20 g/L, calcium activity coefficient is ≈ 0.35.Meaning: more than half of the “calcium concentration” is inert — a dead load that cannot form precipitates.
This explains why traditional methods predicted oversaturation where the water was actually aggressive and dissolving rocks.
Modeling: PHREEQC + minteq.v4 (US EPA), Davis equation.
#Hydrogeochemistry #WaterChemistry #PHREEQC #Geochemistry #Groundwater
#Mining #Tailings #IonActivity #Thermodynamics #Kryvbas #OpenScience #RStats #SvystunovaGully -
In the distant 2016, when I was a member of an environmental NGO in Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), I started using satellite Earth Observation data to monitor the condition of large industrial tailings ponds.
At that time, environmental regulations required these storage facilities to be either flooded or at least kept moist to prevent dust storms.
Industrial operators often ignored these rules, leaving huge dry surfaces exposed — which created massive dust pollution affecting nearby communities.Using Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 imagery with false-color composites, I developed a simple but effective method to map dry, moist, and water-covered zones of tailings ponds.
Local residents and journalists were absolutely delighted! Industrial companies, on the other hand… reacted very differently 🤣
These maps are from 2016–2017 and show several tailings facilities around #KryvyiRih.
#RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #Sentinel2 #OpenData #EnvironmentalMonitoring
#Tailings #Mining #DustPollution #GIS #QGIS #Ukraine #Landsat -
Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems -
Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems -
Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems -
Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems -
Coastal Environments - LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17050922 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #coastalenvironment #coast #coastal #mine #tailings #minetailings #GlobalTailingsManagementStandard #Keweenaw #LiDAR #bathymetry #topobathy #UAS #drone #particledispersal #copper #retention #leaching #BuffaloReef #toxicity #Daphnia #benthic #organisms #risk #hazard #contamination #impacts #sediment #water #hydrology #Michigan #USA #LakeSuperior #PortageLakeVolcanic #geology #spatialanalysis #biology #ecosystems #fisheries #trout #enviornmentalimpacts #leaching #riparian #systems -
At What Cost
#Tailings dams have a sinister beauty – the colours are extraordinary. They often contain waste materials, such as toxic chemicals and heavy metals, which can harm birdlife and ground water.
It’s estimated that there are about 18,000 tailings dams around the world.
Kokatha Country, outback, South Australia
Photograph: David Dahlenburg
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Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants [phytomining]
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html <-- shared media article
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[I know that the USGS has some direct research ongoing in this regard; bioremediation has been around for a long time, in a sense this is a natural extension (pun very much intended)]
#farming #mining #phytomining #tailings #bioremediation #geology #mining #mininggeology #minerals #nickel #plants #vegetation #smelter #accumulating #biology #flora #agromining #metals #heavymetals #biomass #hyperaccumulators #bioore #naturalresources #minerals -
Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants [phytomining]
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html <-- shared media article
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[I know that the USGS has some direct research ongoing in this regard; bioremediation has been around for a long time, in a sense this is a natural extension (pun very much intended)]
#farming #mining #phytomining #tailings #bioremediation #geology #mining #mininggeology #minerals #nickel #plants #vegetation #smelter #accumulating #biology #flora #agromining #metals #heavymetals #biomass #hyperaccumulators #bioore #naturalresources #minerals -
Opinion: Why the birthplace of the Western #Apache religion shouldn’t be destroyed by a #CopperMine
by Luke Goodrich
February 6, 2024·"A federal court is poised to decide whether a #NativeAmerican #sacred site will be destroyed by a massive #copper #mine. Mining proponents claim that destroying the #SacredSite is necessary for the development of #GreenEnergy. That claim is both factually wrong and morally repugnant. And recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans agree with what the constitution requires: #Native sacred sites deserve the same protection as all other houses of worship.
"Since before European contact, #WesternApache and other Native tribes have lived and honored their #Creator at #OakFlat, or 'Chi’chil Bildagoteel.' The site is the birthplace of Western Apache religion and the site of ancient religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Because of its religious and cultural significance, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other destructive practices for decades.
"That changed in 2014, when several members of Congress, supported by #corporate #mining #lobbyists, slipped an amendment into a must-pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to a foreign-owned mining giant. That company, #ResolutionCopper, announced plans to obliterate the sacred ground by swallowing it in a mining crater nearly two miles wide and 1,100-feet deep, ending Apache religious practices forever. That was no surprise given the company’s sordid history dealing with #IndigenousPeoples. The majority owner of Resolution Copper is #RioTinto (the world’s second largest mining company), which sparked international outrage in 2020 when it destroyed a 46,000-year-old rock shelter with some of the most significant #Aboriginal artifacts in all of #Australia.
"The Apache and their allies, represented by my firm, the #BecketFundForReligiousLiberty, have been fighting in court to ensure that such an atrocity won’t repeat itself at Oak Flat. After initial court rulings against the Apache, a full panel of 11 judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reheard their appeal last spring. A decision on whether the government can execute the land transfer is expected any day.
"Resolution Copper and its backers want the public to believe that building the mine is essential for developing #renewable energy. Extracting the copper beneath Oak Flat, they say, will help to build batteries necessary for powering #ElectricVehicles and thus fight #ClimateChange. In other words, we have to destroy Oak Flat in order to save the planet.
"These claims, however, are false — and they are specifically designed to obscure the physical and cultural destruction the project would wreak on the land.
"The mine will destroy the #environment, not save it. It is undisputed that the mine will swallow the ecologically diverse landscape of Oak Flat in a massive crater, decimating the local #ecosystem. It will also leave behind approximately 1.37 billion tons of '#tailings,' or #MiningWaste, which, according to the government’s own environmental assessment, will pollute the #groundwater and scar the landscape permanently. And the mine will consume vast quantities of water at the time it is most needed by drought-stricken towns and #farmers.
"Supporters of the mine are also at odds with the majority of Americans. According to this year’s Religious Freedom Index, an annual survey conducted by Becket, 74% of Americans believe that Native sacred sites on federal land should be protected from mining projects, even when the projects are purportedly pro-jobs and pro-environment.
"That conclusion is both sensible and humane. America can transition to renewable energy without blasting the cradle of Western Apache religion into oblivion. And it should. For too long, our nation has made excuses for taking advantage of #IndigenousPeople and their land. Indeed, our nation drove the Western Apache off Oak Flat and surrounding lands in the 1800s precisely to make way for #MiningInterests. It shouldn’t repeat that #injustice again.
"It is past time to protect Indigenous sacred sites from further destruction. Basic fairness and our constitutional commitment to religious freedom require no less. And, happily, most Americans agree."
https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-birthplace-western-apache-200000087.html
#SaveOakFlat #IndigenousActivism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #CopperMining #WaterIsLife
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Opinion: Why the birthplace of the Western #Apache religion shouldn’t be destroyed by a #CopperMine
by Luke Goodrich
February 6, 2024·"A federal court is poised to decide whether a #NativeAmerican #sacred site will be destroyed by a massive #copper #mine. Mining proponents claim that destroying the #SacredSite is necessary for the development of #GreenEnergy. That claim is both factually wrong and morally repugnant. And recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans agree with what the constitution requires: #Native sacred sites deserve the same protection as all other houses of worship.
"Since before European contact, #WesternApache and other Native tribes have lived and honored their #Creator at #OakFlat, or 'Chi’chil Bildagoteel.' The site is the birthplace of Western Apache religion and the site of ancient religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Because of its religious and cultural significance, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other destructive practices for decades.
"That changed in 2014, when several members of Congress, supported by #corporate #mining #lobbyists, slipped an amendment into a must-pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to a foreign-owned mining giant. That company, #ResolutionCopper, announced plans to obliterate the sacred ground by swallowing it in a mining crater nearly two miles wide and 1,100-feet deep, ending Apache religious practices forever. That was no surprise given the company’s sordid history dealing with #IndigenousPeoples. The majority owner of Resolution Copper is #RioTinto (the world’s second largest mining company), which sparked international outrage in 2020 when it destroyed a 46,000-year-old rock shelter with some of the most significant #Aboriginal artifacts in all of #Australia.
"The Apache and their allies, represented by my firm, the #BecketFundForReligiousLiberty, have been fighting in court to ensure that such an atrocity won’t repeat itself at Oak Flat. After initial court rulings against the Apache, a full panel of 11 judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reheard their appeal last spring. A decision on whether the government can execute the land transfer is expected any day.
"Resolution Copper and its backers want the public to believe that building the mine is essential for developing #renewable energy. Extracting the copper beneath Oak Flat, they say, will help to build batteries necessary for powering #ElectricVehicles and thus fight #ClimateChange. In other words, we have to destroy Oak Flat in order to save the planet.
"These claims, however, are false — and they are specifically designed to obscure the physical and cultural destruction the project would wreak on the land.
"The mine will destroy the #environment, not save it. It is undisputed that the mine will swallow the ecologically diverse landscape of Oak Flat in a massive crater, decimating the local #ecosystem. It will also leave behind approximately 1.37 billion tons of '#tailings,' or #MiningWaste, which, according to the government’s own environmental assessment, will pollute the #groundwater and scar the landscape permanently. And the mine will consume vast quantities of water at the time it is most needed by drought-stricken towns and #farmers.
"Supporters of the mine are also at odds with the majority of Americans. According to this year’s Religious Freedom Index, an annual survey conducted by Becket, 74% of Americans believe that Native sacred sites on federal land should be protected from mining projects, even when the projects are purportedly pro-jobs and pro-environment.
"That conclusion is both sensible and humane. America can transition to renewable energy without blasting the cradle of Western Apache religion into oblivion. And it should. For too long, our nation has made excuses for taking advantage of #IndigenousPeople and their land. Indeed, our nation drove the Western Apache off Oak Flat and surrounding lands in the 1800s precisely to make way for #MiningInterests. It shouldn’t repeat that #injustice again.
"It is past time to protect Indigenous sacred sites from further destruction. Basic fairness and our constitutional commitment to religious freedom require no less. And, happily, most Americans agree."
https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-birthplace-western-apache-200000087.html
#SaveOakFlat #IndigenousActivism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #CopperMining #WaterIsLife
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Opinion: Why the birthplace of the Western #Apache religion shouldn’t be destroyed by a #CopperMine
by Luke Goodrich
February 6, 2024·"A federal court is poised to decide whether a #NativeAmerican #sacred site will be destroyed by a massive #copper #mine. Mining proponents claim that destroying the #SacredSite is necessary for the development of #GreenEnergy. That claim is both factually wrong and morally repugnant. And recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans agree with what the constitution requires: #Native sacred sites deserve the same protection as all other houses of worship.
"Since before European contact, #WesternApache and other Native tribes have lived and honored their #Creator at #OakFlat, or 'Chi’chil Bildagoteel.' The site is the birthplace of Western Apache religion and the site of ancient religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Because of its religious and cultural significance, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other destructive practices for decades.
"That changed in 2014, when several members of Congress, supported by #corporate #mining #lobbyists, slipped an amendment into a must-pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to a foreign-owned mining giant. That company, #ResolutionCopper, announced plans to obliterate the sacred ground by swallowing it in a mining crater nearly two miles wide and 1,100-feet deep, ending Apache religious practices forever. That was no surprise given the company’s sordid history dealing with #IndigenousPeoples. The majority owner of Resolution Copper is #RioTinto (the world’s second largest mining company), which sparked international outrage in 2020 when it destroyed a 46,000-year-old rock shelter with some of the most significant #Aboriginal artifacts in all of #Australia.
"The Apache and their allies, represented by my firm, the #BecketFundForReligiousLiberty, have been fighting in court to ensure that such an atrocity won’t repeat itself at Oak Flat. After initial court rulings against the Apache, a full panel of 11 judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reheard their appeal last spring. A decision on whether the government can execute the land transfer is expected any day.
"Resolution Copper and its backers want the public to believe that building the mine is essential for developing #renewable energy. Extracting the copper beneath Oak Flat, they say, will help to build batteries necessary for powering #ElectricVehicles and thus fight #ClimateChange. In other words, we have to destroy Oak Flat in order to save the planet.
"These claims, however, are false — and they are specifically designed to obscure the physical and cultural destruction the project would wreak on the land.
"The mine will destroy the #environment, not save it. It is undisputed that the mine will swallow the ecologically diverse landscape of Oak Flat in a massive crater, decimating the local #ecosystem. It will also leave behind approximately 1.37 billion tons of '#tailings,' or #MiningWaste, which, according to the government’s own environmental assessment, will pollute the #groundwater and scar the landscape permanently. And the mine will consume vast quantities of water at the time it is most needed by drought-stricken towns and #farmers.
"Supporters of the mine are also at odds with the majority of Americans. According to this year’s Religious Freedom Index, an annual survey conducted by Becket, 74% of Americans believe that Native sacred sites on federal land should be protected from mining projects, even when the projects are purportedly pro-jobs and pro-environment.
"That conclusion is both sensible and humane. America can transition to renewable energy without blasting the cradle of Western Apache religion into oblivion. And it should. For too long, our nation has made excuses for taking advantage of #IndigenousPeople and their land. Indeed, our nation drove the Western Apache off Oak Flat and surrounding lands in the 1800s precisely to make way for #MiningInterests. It shouldn’t repeat that #injustice again.
"It is past time to protect Indigenous sacred sites from further destruction. Basic fairness and our constitutional commitment to religious freedom require no less. And, happily, most Americans agree."
https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-birthplace-western-apache-200000087.html
#SaveOakFlat #IndigenousActivism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #CopperMining #WaterIsLife
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Opinion: Why the birthplace of the Western #Apache religion shouldn’t be destroyed by a #CopperMine
by Luke Goodrich
February 6, 2024·"A federal court is poised to decide whether a #NativeAmerican #sacred site will be destroyed by a massive #copper #mine. Mining proponents claim that destroying the #SacredSite is necessary for the development of #GreenEnergy. That claim is both factually wrong and morally repugnant. And recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans agree with what the constitution requires: #Native sacred sites deserve the same protection as all other houses of worship.
"Since before European contact, #WesternApache and other Native tribes have lived and honored their #Creator at #OakFlat, or 'Chi’chil Bildagoteel.' The site is the birthplace of Western Apache religion and the site of ancient religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Because of its religious and cultural significance, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other destructive practices for decades.
"That changed in 2014, when several members of Congress, supported by #corporate #mining #lobbyists, slipped an amendment into a must-pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to a foreign-owned mining giant. That company, #ResolutionCopper, announced plans to obliterate the sacred ground by swallowing it in a mining crater nearly two miles wide and 1,100-feet deep, ending Apache religious practices forever. That was no surprise given the company’s sordid history dealing with #IndigenousPeoples. The majority owner of Resolution Copper is #RioTinto (the world’s second largest mining company), which sparked international outrage in 2020 when it destroyed a 46,000-year-old rock shelter with some of the most significant #Aboriginal artifacts in all of #Australia.
"The Apache and their allies, represented by my firm, the #BecketFundForReligiousLiberty, have been fighting in court to ensure that such an atrocity won’t repeat itself at Oak Flat. After initial court rulings against the Apache, a full panel of 11 judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reheard their appeal last spring. A decision on whether the government can execute the land transfer is expected any day.
"Resolution Copper and its backers want the public to believe that building the mine is essential for developing #renewable energy. Extracting the copper beneath Oak Flat, they say, will help to build batteries necessary for powering #ElectricVehicles and thus fight #ClimateChange. In other words, we have to destroy Oak Flat in order to save the planet.
"These claims, however, are false — and they are specifically designed to obscure the physical and cultural destruction the project would wreak on the land.
"The mine will destroy the #environment, not save it. It is undisputed that the mine will swallow the ecologically diverse landscape of Oak Flat in a massive crater, decimating the local #ecosystem. It will also leave behind approximately 1.37 billion tons of '#tailings,' or #MiningWaste, which, according to the government’s own environmental assessment, will pollute the #groundwater and scar the landscape permanently. And the mine will consume vast quantities of water at the time it is most needed by drought-stricken towns and #farmers.
"Supporters of the mine are also at odds with the majority of Americans. According to this year’s Religious Freedom Index, an annual survey conducted by Becket, 74% of Americans believe that Native sacred sites on federal land should be protected from mining projects, even when the projects are purportedly pro-jobs and pro-environment.
"That conclusion is both sensible and humane. America can transition to renewable energy without blasting the cradle of Western Apache religion into oblivion. And it should. For too long, our nation has made excuses for taking advantage of #IndigenousPeople and their land. Indeed, our nation drove the Western Apache off Oak Flat and surrounding lands in the 1800s precisely to make way for #MiningInterests. It shouldn’t repeat that #injustice again.
"It is past time to protect Indigenous sacred sites from further destruction. Basic fairness and our constitutional commitment to religious freedom require no less. And, happily, most Americans agree."
https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-birthplace-western-apache-200000087.html
#SaveOakFlat #IndigenousActivism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #CopperMining #WaterIsLife
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Opinion: Why the birthplace of the Western #Apache religion shouldn’t be destroyed by a #CopperMine
by Luke Goodrich
February 6, 2024·"A federal court is poised to decide whether a #NativeAmerican #sacred site will be destroyed by a massive #copper #mine. Mining proponents claim that destroying the #SacredSite is necessary for the development of #GreenEnergy. That claim is both factually wrong and morally repugnant. And recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans agree with what the constitution requires: #Native sacred sites deserve the same protection as all other houses of worship.
"Since before European contact, #WesternApache and other Native tribes have lived and honored their #Creator at #OakFlat, or 'Chi’chil Bildagoteel.' The site is the birthplace of Western Apache religion and the site of ancient religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Because of its religious and cultural significance, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other destructive practices for decades.
"That changed in 2014, when several members of Congress, supported by #corporate #mining #lobbyists, slipped an amendment into a must-pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to a foreign-owned mining giant. That company, #ResolutionCopper, announced plans to obliterate the sacred ground by swallowing it in a mining crater nearly two miles wide and 1,100-feet deep, ending Apache religious practices forever. That was no surprise given the company’s sordid history dealing with #IndigenousPeoples. The majority owner of Resolution Copper is #RioTinto (the world’s second largest mining company), which sparked international outrage in 2020 when it destroyed a 46,000-year-old rock shelter with some of the most significant #Aboriginal artifacts in all of #Australia.
"The Apache and their allies, represented by my firm, the #BecketFundForReligiousLiberty, have been fighting in court to ensure that such an atrocity won’t repeat itself at Oak Flat. After initial court rulings against the Apache, a full panel of 11 judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reheard their appeal last spring. A decision on whether the government can execute the land transfer is expected any day.
"Resolution Copper and its backers want the public to believe that building the mine is essential for developing #renewable energy. Extracting the copper beneath Oak Flat, they say, will help to build batteries necessary for powering #ElectricVehicles and thus fight #ClimateChange. In other words, we have to destroy Oak Flat in order to save the planet.
"These claims, however, are false — and they are specifically designed to obscure the physical and cultural destruction the project would wreak on the land.
"The mine will destroy the #environment, not save it. It is undisputed that the mine will swallow the ecologically diverse landscape of Oak Flat in a massive crater, decimating the local #ecosystem. It will also leave behind approximately 1.37 billion tons of '#tailings,' or #MiningWaste, which, according to the government’s own environmental assessment, will pollute the #groundwater and scar the landscape permanently. And the mine will consume vast quantities of water at the time it is most needed by drought-stricken towns and #farmers.
"Supporters of the mine are also at odds with the majority of Americans. According to this year’s Religious Freedom Index, an annual survey conducted by Becket, 74% of Americans believe that Native sacred sites on federal land should be protected from mining projects, even when the projects are purportedly pro-jobs and pro-environment.
"That conclusion is both sensible and humane. America can transition to renewable energy without blasting the cradle of Western Apache religion into oblivion. And it should. For too long, our nation has made excuses for taking advantage of #IndigenousPeople and their land. Indeed, our nation drove the Western Apache off Oak Flat and surrounding lands in the 1800s precisely to make way for #MiningInterests. It shouldn’t repeat that #injustice again.
"It is past time to protect Indigenous sacred sites from further destruction. Basic fairness and our constitutional commitment to religious freedom require no less. And, happily, most Americans agree."
https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-birthplace-western-apache-200000087.html
#SaveOakFlat #IndigenousActivism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #CopperMining #WaterIsLife
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Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage Day
October 28, 2023
Alberta Legislature
To protest the Alberta government’s lack of action on holding resource extraction industries responsible for their pollution. Tailings ponds from tar sands extraction now spread over an area larger than metropolitan Vancouver. Recent tailings leaks from the Imperial Oil Kearl site went unreported for months.
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Keep watching this story...
"#Imperial, #Alberta regulator knew for years about #tailings #seepage at mine"
Quotes: "Documents filed by Imperial #Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta’s energy regulator knew the #Kearl #oilsands mine was seeping tailings into #groundwater..."
"...#sulphates at a sampling station in the #Muskeg #River began climbing drastically in March 2022. Within a year, they were 18x higher than the 2021 average."
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Keep watching this story...
"#Imperial, #Alberta regulator knew for years about #tailings #seepage at mine"
Quotes: "Documents filed by Imperial #Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta’s energy regulator knew the #Kearl #oilsands mine was seeping tailings into #groundwater..."
"...#sulphates at a sampling station in the #Muskeg #River began climbing drastically in March 2022. Within a year, they were 18x higher than the 2021 average."
🛢️🎣🦆🦌🛢️
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Keep watching this story...
"#Imperial, #Alberta regulator knew for years about #tailings #seepage at mine"
Quotes: "Documents filed by Imperial #Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta’s energy regulator knew the #Kearl #oilsands mine was seeping tailings into #groundwater..."
"...#sulphates at a sampling station in the #Muskeg #River began climbing drastically in March 2022. Within a year, they were 18x higher than the 2021 average."
🛢️🎣🦆🦌🛢️
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Keep watching this story...
"#Imperial, #Alberta regulator knew for years about #tailings #seepage at mine"
Quotes: "Documents filed by Imperial #Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta’s energy regulator knew the #Kearl #oilsands mine was seeping tailings into #groundwater..."
"...#sulphates at a sampling station in the #Muskeg #River began climbing drastically in March 2022. Within a year, they were 18x higher than the 2021 average."
🛢️🎣🦆🦌🛢️
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Keep watching this story...
"#Imperial, #Alberta regulator knew for years about #tailings #seepage at mine"
Quotes: "Documents filed by Imperial #Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta’s energy regulator knew the #Kearl #oilsands mine was seeping tailings into #groundwater..."
"...#sulphates at a sampling station in the #Muskeg #River began climbing drastically in March 2022. Within a year, they were 18x higher than the 2021 average."
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Researchers have shown #satellite data can be used to monitor whether mine #tailings dams followed sound construction practices https://www.planet.com/pulse/publications/satellite-data-revealing-why-dam-tailing-failures-occur
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The Alberta Energy Regulator was before the House of Commons all-party Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development April 24 to discuss Kearl oilsands mine tailing ponds seepages.
When pushed to explain why downstream communities were not notified of the leaks for almost a year, the regulator said investigations prevented them from providing details.
#Indigenous #environment #tailings #mines #cdnpoli #Alberta #AER #ImperialOil #water
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The Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development heard from representatives of Imperial Oil on April 20 in Ottawa.
The House of Commons all-party committee is conducting hearings on the toxic leaks of tailings ponds at the Kearl oilsands mine operated by Imperial in northeastern Alberta.
The company’s CEO, Brad Corson, repeatedly apologized for what transpired at Kearl saying it had broken trust.
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Alberta and its regulator get rough ride at Parliamentary committee for Kearl tailings pond seepage fiasco
Representatives from First Nations and Métis communities in northeastern Alberta slammed the Alberta Energy Regulator and the provincial government today when they spoke to the House of Commons all-party Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development in Ottawa.
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The Windspeaker Newsletter is on our site now.
https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=b5f07cdffd4f6a67f590589ec&id=06e2627362
#Indigenous #water #courts #jobs #books #culture #teachings #mine #tailings #hockey #NHL #infrastructure #economic #reconciliation
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“Something is not right. You’re holding back something.”
Emotions run high as Imperial Oil VP talks to communities about seepage from Kearl mine
Anger, distrust and fear were evident in the first community meeting hosted by an Imperial Oil official since news broke last month of tailings pond seepage that had been occurring since May 2022 at the Kearl mine upstream of Indigenous communities in the Fort Chipewyan area.
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“Something is not right. You’re holding back something.”
Emotions run high as Imperial Oil VP talks to communities about seepage from Kearl mine
Anger, distrust and fear were evident in the first community meeting hosted by an Imperial Oil official since news broke last month of tailings pond seepage that had been occurring since May 2022 at the Kearl mine upstream of Indigenous communities in the Fort Chipewyan area.
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“Something is not right. You’re holding back something.”
Emotions run high as Imperial Oil VP talks to communities about seepage from Kearl mine
Anger, distrust and fear were evident in the first community meeting hosted by an Imperial Oil official since news broke last month of tailings pond seepage that had been occurring since May 2022 at the Kearl mine upstream of Indigenous communities in the Fort Chipewyan area.
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“Something is not right. You’re holding back something.”
Emotions run high as Imperial Oil VP talks to communities about seepage from Kearl mine
Anger, distrust and fear were evident in the first community meeting hosted by an Imperial Oil official since news broke last month of tailings pond seepage that had been occurring since May 2022 at the Kearl mine upstream of Indigenous communities in the Fort Chipewyan area.
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“Something is not right. You’re holding back something.”
Emotions run high as Imperial Oil VP talks to communities about seepage from Kearl mine
Anger, distrust and fear were evident in the first community meeting hosted by an Imperial Oil official since news broke last month of tailings pond seepage that had been occurring since May 2022 at the Kearl mine upstream of Indigenous communities in the Fort Chipewyan area.
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“If the (waste) water is contaminated, would you drink water from the system?”
Chief Adam’s anger grows over Kearl mine spill and Alberta premier’s condescension
Frustration and anger blast from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam as he waits for test results from the drainage pond overflow from Kearl mine that happened upstream from his community.
“The Alberta government has done nothing," said Adam.
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This is a powerful feature about a #Newfoundland #mining town left with #contamination after an #asbestos #mine operated & closed there. Quote from article: "The prospect of long-term exposure to free-floating asbestos, over the last half-century, still hangs over the town today, Philpott says. Most people want it gone. Many fear they’re still breathing in what killed their parents, their neighbours." https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/toxic-towns-baie-verte #toxic #tailings #cancer #lungdisease #fibrosis
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Fortuna Silver Mines, from Canada, is the 6th largest silver producer in Mexico. In 2018 one of its mines spilled toxic waste in Oaxaca.
How did this affect the lives of various communities? We tell you in this investigation#Mining #cdnpoli #tailings #México #miningtail #tailing #Canada2021 #oaxacamexico #canadá
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Fortuna Silver Mines, from Canada, is the 6th largest silver producer in Mexico. In 2018 one of its mines spilled toxic waste in Oaxaca.
How did this affect the lives of various communities? We tell you in this investigation#Mining #cdnpoli #tailings #México #miningtail #tailing #Canada2021 #oaxacamexico #canadá