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Elsewhere in the South:
“FRENCH company Orano is turning
to Botswana for uranium after losing
access to the mineral in Niger after the
2023 coup and its fallout with the ruling
junta. The company forfeited uranium
assets worth an estimated $270-million.
Orano Botswana, registered on 10
April, has been awarded exploration
licenses and has begun aerial surveying
and ground sampling in the Kalahari
region around Gantsi in the country’s
southwest.
Botswana holds some of the world’s
largest undeveloped uranium reserves,
estimated at over 800,000 tonnes, worth
$300-million, and wants to diversify its
mining sector beyond diamonds.
In Botswana, Orano could face stricter
requirements than in Niger. Mining rules
in Botswana require that raw materials
be processed domestically to build local
industries and create jobs, rather than
exporting unprocessed minerals abroad.
PHOTO: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
What’s mine: Presidents Duma Boko (left) and
Emmanuel Macron struck a deal on uranium.
At the recent France-Africa summit in
Kenya, Botswana’s President Duma Boko
reaffirmed his commitment to these
policies, saying French investment in
the country’s uranium sector is welcome
“on condition it adopts Botswana’s local-
beneficiation policy as part of a broader
mining-sovereignty plan”.
But local labour leaders say Gaborone
will need to go further than rhetoric
and policy on paper. “The policies are
abstract and do not necessarily translate
to wealth creation for the nation or
direct equity for workers in the mining
sector and mining communities,” said
Mbiganyi Gaekgotswe, secretary-general
of the Botswana Mine Workers’ Union.
About four Australian and Canadian
companies are already operating in
Botswana’s uranium-mining sector,
including Australia’s Lotus Resources. It
was recently awarded a 22-year licence to
mine an estimated 113-million pounds
of uranium.
(Source: on page 7 of The Continent Issue 240, 23May26. https://6555a27a-21bd-45eb-b287-1c28900211e3.filesusr.com/ugd/73a7e6_8b739818dd994e1b91a8849842749f33.pdf )#UraniumMining #Botswana #France #Australia #Canada #AfricaNews
#BeneficationPolicy #MiningSovereignty -
Elsewhere in the South:
“FRENCH company Orano is turning
to Botswana for uranium after losing
access to the mineral in Niger after the
2023 coup and its fallout with the ruling
junta. The company forfeited uranium
assets worth an estimated $270-million.
Orano Botswana, registered on 10
April, has been awarded exploration
licenses and has begun aerial surveying
and ground sampling in the Kalahari
region around Gantsi in the country’s
southwest.
Botswana holds some of the world’s
largest undeveloped uranium reserves,
estimated at over 800,000 tonnes, worth
$300-million, and wants to diversify its
mining sector beyond diamonds.
In Botswana, Orano could face stricter
requirements than in Niger. Mining rules
in Botswana require that raw materials
be processed domestically to build local
industries and create jobs, rather than
exporting unprocessed minerals abroad.
PHOTO: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
What’s mine: Presidents Duma Boko (left) and
Emmanuel Macron struck a deal on uranium.
At the recent France-Africa summit in
Kenya, Botswana’s President Duma Boko
reaffirmed his commitment to these
policies, saying French investment in
the country’s uranium sector is welcome
“on condition it adopts Botswana’s local-
beneficiation policy as part of a broader
mining-sovereignty plan”.
But local labour leaders say Gaborone
will need to go further than rhetoric
and policy on paper. “The policies are
abstract and do not necessarily translate
to wealth creation for the nation or
direct equity for workers in the mining
sector and mining communities,” said
Mbiganyi Gaekgotswe, secretary-general
of the Botswana Mine Workers’ Union.
About four Australian and Canadian
companies are already operating in
Botswana’s uranium-mining sector,
including Australia’s Lotus Resources. It
was recently awarded a 22-year licence to
mine an estimated 113-million pounds
of uranium.
(Source: on page 7 of The Continent Issue 240, 23May26. https://6555a27a-21bd-45eb-b287-1c28900211e3.filesusr.com/ugd/73a7e6_8b739818dd994e1b91a8849842749f33.pdf )#UraniumMining #Botswana #France #Australia #Canada #AfricaNews
#BeneficationPolicy #MiningSovereignty -
Elsewhere in the South:
“FRENCH company Orano is turning
to Botswana for uranium after losing
access to the mineral in Niger after the
2023 coup and its fallout with the ruling
junta. The company forfeited uranium
assets worth an estimated $270-million.
Orano Botswana, registered on 10
April, has been awarded exploration
licenses and has begun aerial surveying
and ground sampling in the Kalahari
region around Gantsi in the country’s
southwest.
Botswana holds some of the world’s
largest undeveloped uranium reserves,
estimated at over 800,000 tonnes, worth
$300-million, and wants to diversify its
mining sector beyond diamonds.
In Botswana, Orano could face stricter
requirements than in Niger. Mining rules
in Botswana require that raw materials
be processed domestically to build local
industries and create jobs, rather than
exporting unprocessed minerals abroad.
PHOTO: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
What’s mine: Presidents Duma Boko (left) and
Emmanuel Macron struck a deal on uranium.
At the recent France-Africa summit in
Kenya, Botswana’s President Duma Boko
reaffirmed his commitment to these
policies, saying French investment in
the country’s uranium sector is welcome
“on condition it adopts Botswana’s local-
beneficiation policy as part of a broader
mining-sovereignty plan”.
But local labour leaders say Gaborone
will need to go further than rhetoric
and policy on paper. “The policies are
abstract and do not necessarily translate
to wealth creation for the nation or
direct equity for workers in the mining
sector and mining communities,” said
Mbiganyi Gaekgotswe, secretary-general
of the Botswana Mine Workers’ Union.
About four Australian and Canadian
companies are already operating in
Botswana’s uranium-mining sector,
including Australia’s Lotus Resources. It
was recently awarded a 22-year licence to
mine an estimated 113-million pounds
of uranium.
(Source: on page 7 of The Continent Issue 240, 23May26. https://6555a27a-21bd-45eb-b287-1c28900211e3.filesusr.com/ugd/73a7e6_8b739818dd994e1b91a8849842749f33.pdf )#UraniumMining #Botswana #France #Australia #Canada #AfricaNews
#BeneficationPolicy #MiningSovereignty -
Elsewhere in the South:
“FRENCH company Orano is turning
to Botswana for uranium after losing
access to the mineral in Niger after the
2023 coup and its fallout with the ruling
junta. The company forfeited uranium
assets worth an estimated $270-million.
Orano Botswana, registered on 10
April, has been awarded exploration
licenses and has begun aerial surveying
and ground sampling in the Kalahari
region around Gantsi in the country’s
southwest.
Botswana holds some of the world’s
largest undeveloped uranium reserves,
estimated at over 800,000 tonnes, worth
$300-million, and wants to diversify its
mining sector beyond diamonds.
In Botswana, Orano could face stricter
requirements than in Niger. Mining rules
in Botswana require that raw materials
be processed domestically to build local
industries and create jobs, rather than
exporting unprocessed minerals abroad.
PHOTO: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
What’s mine: Presidents Duma Boko (left) and
Emmanuel Macron struck a deal on uranium.
At the recent France-Africa summit in
Kenya, Botswana’s President Duma Boko
reaffirmed his commitment to these
policies, saying French investment in
the country’s uranium sector is welcome
“on condition it adopts Botswana’s local-
beneficiation policy as part of a broader
mining-sovereignty plan”.
But local labour leaders say Gaborone
will need to go further than rhetoric
and policy on paper. “The policies are
abstract and do not necessarily translate
to wealth creation for the nation or
direct equity for workers in the mining
sector and mining communities,” said
Mbiganyi Gaekgotswe, secretary-general
of the Botswana Mine Workers’ Union.
About four Australian and Canadian
companies are already operating in
Botswana’s uranium-mining sector,
including Australia’s Lotus Resources. It
was recently awarded a 22-year licence to
mine an estimated 113-million pounds
of uranium.
(Source: on page 7 of The Continent Issue 240, 23May26. https://6555a27a-21bd-45eb-b287-1c28900211e3.filesusr.com/ugd/73a7e6_8b739818dd994e1b91a8849842749f33.pdf )#UraniumMining #Botswana #France #Australia #Canada #AfricaNews
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Comment to oppose plans to mine radioactive uranium in Custer and Fall River Counties in #SouthDakota. Public comments on part of the proposed Dewey-Burdock mine are due to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by May 14, 2026.
#UraniumMining #BlackHills
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@onedawnconstant Less emissions than coal or other fossil fuels, but there's a heavy price involved from #UraniumMining to #UraniumProcess to #NuclearWaste storage. Usually involving #EnvironmentalRacism .
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@onedawnconstant Less emissions than coal or other fossil fuels, but there's a heavy price involved from #UraniumMining to #UraniumProcess to #NuclearWaste storage. Usually involving #EnvironmentalRacism .
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@onedawnconstant Less emissions than coal or other fossil fuels, but there's a heavy price involved from #UraniumMining to #UraniumProcess to #NuclearWaste storage. Usually involving #EnvironmentalRacism .
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@onedawnconstant Less emissions than coal or other fossil fuels, but there's a heavy price involved from #UraniumMining to #UraniumProcess to #NuclearWaste storage. Usually involving #EnvironmentalRacism .
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@onedawnconstant Less emissions than coal or other fossil fuels, but there's a heavy price involved from #UraniumMining to #UraniumProcess to #NuclearWaste storage. Usually involving #EnvironmentalRacism .
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Nuclear Energy for Data Centers: Tech Giants Drive Demand – News and Statistics https://www.byteseu.com/1956643/ #Cameco #CompactNuclearReactor #DataCenters #Nuclear #NuclearEnergy #NuclearFuelRecycling #Oklo #reactor #uranium #UraniumMining #Westinghouse
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Protect the South Dakota Black Hills from toxic uranium mining.
#Uranium #UraniumMining #BlackHills #southdakotaSubmit a **public comment to the BLM on the Dewey-Burdock Environmental Assessment before May 14**. See below for a short template message based on our assessment of the real legal failures of this review.
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Protect the South Dakota Black Hills from toxic uranium mining. #Uranium #UraniumMining #BlackHills #southdakota action.lakotalaw.org/action/black...
Black Hills Uranium More Dange... -
Protect the South Dakota Black Hills from toxic uranium mining.
#Uranium #UraniumMining #BlackHills #southdakota https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/black-hills-mining -
#Protest #EnergyFuels’ #UraniumMines at #LaSal and near the #GrandCanyon!
Saturday, May 16, Noon – #LaSalJunction, 20 miles south of #Moab, #Utah
"Support the #WhiteMesaUte Community and other #NativeNations impacted by #UraniumMining, transportation, and disposal."
Link to flyer PDF:
https://greenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/515-Uranium-Flyer-.pdf##NuclearColonialism #WhiteMesa #Ute #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPine #Havasupai #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
#EnvironmentalRacism #NoUraniumMining -
#Protest #EnergyFuels’ #UraniumMines at #LaSal and near the #GrandCanyon!
Saturday, May 16, Noon – #LaSalJunction, 20 miles south of #Moab, #Utah
"Support the #WhiteMesaUte Community and other #NativeNations impacted by #UraniumMining, transportation, and disposal."
Link to flyer PDF:
https://greenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/515-Uranium-Flyer-.pdf##NuclearColonialism #WhiteMesa #Ute #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPine #Havasupai #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
#EnvironmentalRacism #NoUraniumMining -
#Protest #EnergyFuels’ #UraniumMines at #LaSal and near the #GrandCanyon!
Saturday, May 16, Noon – #LaSalJunction, 20 miles south of #Moab, #Utah
"Support the #WhiteMesaUte Community and other #NativeNations impacted by #UraniumMining, transportation, and disposal."
Link to flyer PDF:
https://greenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/515-Uranium-Flyer-.pdf##NuclearColonialism #WhiteMesa #Ute #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPine #Havasupai #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
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#Protest #EnergyFuels’ #UraniumMines at #LaSal and near the #GrandCanyon!
Saturday, May 16, Noon – #LaSalJunction, 20 miles south of #Moab, #Utah
"Support the #WhiteMesaUte Community and other #NativeNations impacted by #UraniumMining, transportation, and disposal."
Link to flyer PDF:
https://greenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/515-Uranium-Flyer-.pdf##NuclearColonialism #WhiteMesa #Ute #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPine #Havasupai #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
#EnvironmentalRacism #NoUraniumMining -
#Protest #EnergyFuels’ #UraniumMines at #LaSal and near the #GrandCanyon!
Saturday, May 16, Noon – #LaSalJunction, 20 miles south of #Moab, #Utah
"Support the #WhiteMesaUte Community and other #NativeNations impacted by #UraniumMining, transportation, and disposal."
Link to flyer PDF:
https://greenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/515-Uranium-Flyer-.pdf##NuclearColonialism #WhiteMesa #Ute #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPine #Havasupai #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/187945/ Namibia’s central bank lowers economic growth forecasts #BankOfNamibia #DiamondMarket #EconomicGrowthForecasts #Namibia #NamibiaGDPForecast #NamibiaUranium #UraniumMining
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/187746/ Namibia’s central bank lowers economic growth forecasts #BankOfNamibia #DiamondMarket #EconomicGrowthForecasts #Namibia #NamibiaGDPForecast #NamibiaUranium #UraniumMining
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Nuclear Energy Boom: Strait Closure Spurs Uranium Demand & Reactor Construction – News and Statistics
Mar 28, 2026 According to a report from Yahoo Finance, the ongoing Middle East conflict and resulting closure…
#Nuclear #ap1000 #Cameco #CigarLake #Energyindependence #McArthurRiver #nuclear #NuclearReactor #StraitofHormuz #uranium #Uraniummining #Westinghouse
https://www.europesays.com/2877864/ -
Nuclear Energy Boom: Strait Closure Spurs Uranium Demand & Reactor Construction – News and Statistics https://www.byteseu.com/1900455/ #AP1000 #Cameco #CigarLake #EnergyIndependence #McArthurRiver #Nuclear #NuclearReactor #StraitOfHormuz #uranium #UraniumMining #Westinghouse
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Growing Presence of AI Data Centers Prompts Debate on Native Lands
Concerns include environmental impacts and resources needed for the centers, as well as cultural creative theft from AI.https://murica.website/2026/03/growing-presence-of-ai-data-centers-prompts-debate-on-native-lands/
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The Times of Central Asia:
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Kazakhstan’s soil is contaminated with radioactive waste, heavy metals, oil, and petroleum products, according to the Central Asia Climate Change and Green Energy Project Office .. The total volume of radioactive materials is estimated at approximately 200 million tons.
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https://timesca.com/approximately-200-million-tons-of-radioactive-waste-accumulated-in-kazakhstan/
20.1.2026#Atomkraft #Atommüll #CACF #Kasachstan #Kazakhstan #Kernenergie #NuclearWaste #Pollution #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Umweltverschmutzung #Uran #Uranium #UraniumMining
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The Times of Central Asia:
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Kazakhstan’s soil is contaminated with radioactive waste, heavy metals, oil, and petroleum products, according to the Central Asia Climate Change and Green Energy Project Office .. The total volume of radioactive materials is estimated at approximately 200 million tons.
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https://timesca.com/approximately-200-million-tons-of-radioactive-waste-accumulated-in-kazakhstan/
20.1.2026#Atomkraft #Atommüll #CACF #Kasachstan #Kazakhstan #Kernenergie #NuclearWaste #Pollution #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Umweltverschmutzung #Uran #Uranium #UraniumMining
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The Times of Central Asia:
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Kazakhstan’s soil is contaminated with radioactive waste, heavy metals, oil, and petroleum products, according to the Central Asia Climate Change and Green Energy Project Office .. The total volume of radioactive materials is estimated at approximately 200 million tons.
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https://timesca.com/approximately-200-million-tons-of-radioactive-waste-accumulated-in-kazakhstan/
20.1.2026#Atomkraft #Atommüll #CACF #Kasachstan #Kazakhstan #Kernenergie #NuclearWaste #Pollution #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Umweltverschmutzung #Uran #Uranium #UraniumMining
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The Times of Central Asia:
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Kazakhstan’s soil is contaminated with radioactive waste, heavy metals, oil, and petroleum products, according to the Central Asia Climate Change and Green Energy Project Office .. The total volume of radioactive materials is estimated at approximately 200 million tons.
"
https://timesca.com/approximately-200-million-tons-of-radioactive-waste-accumulated-in-kazakhstan/
20.1.2026#Atomkraft #Atommüll #CACF #Kasachstan #Kazakhstan #Kernenergie #NuclearWaste #Pollution #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Umweltverschmutzung #Uran #Uranium #UraniumMining
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The Times of Central Asia:
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Kazakhstan’s soil is contaminated with radioactive waste, heavy metals, oil, and petroleum products, according to the Central Asia Climate Change and Green Energy Project Office .. The total volume of radioactive materials is estimated at approximately 200 million tons.
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https://timesca.com/approximately-200-million-tons-of-radioactive-waste-accumulated-in-kazakhstan/
20.1.2026#Atomkraft #Atommüll #CACF #Kasachstan #Kazakhstan #Kernenergie #NuclearWaste #Pollution #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Umweltverschmutzung #Uran #Uranium #UraniumMining
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President Milei’s Nuclear Ambitions Face Local Resistance in Patagonia
Argentina has become a major mining hotspot in recent years, as energy firms eye the South American country’s…
#Nuclear #Argentina #CerroSolo #Chubut #CNEA #energyproduction #Milei #nuclear #NUCLEARENERGY #nuclearplants #OpenPitMining #SouthAmericancountry #uraniumhexafluoride #Uraniummining #uraniumreserves
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District Comments on Alum Shale Announcement from the Swedish Government https://www.byteseu.com/1775917/ #AlumShale #company #district #DistrictMetalsCorp #GarrettAinsworth #MiningIndustry #Sweden #TheCompany #UraniumExploration #UraniumMining #VikenProperty
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is Paying the Price of Nuclear Colonialism – Intercontinental Cry
Last Updated on January 5, 2026 The last remaining uranium mill in the United States is located in…
#Nuclear #nuclear #nuclearcolonialism #radioactiveracism #Uraniummining #WhiteMesaMill
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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - #TheRiverThatHarms
1987, Directed by Colleen Keane, Documentary, 45 min.
"This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the sound of a thunderclap, 94 million gallons of water contaminated with #UraniumMining waste broke through a #UnitedNuclearCorporation storage dam in 1979. The water poured into the #PuercoRiver in #NewMexico - the main water supply for the #Navajo that live along the river, and a tributary of the major source of water for #LosAngeles. Navajo ranchers, their children, and farm animals waded through the river unaware of the danger."
FMI -
https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/12549/The-River-That-Harms#NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #WaterIsLife #Dine #Dineh #UraniumPollution #RadioactiveWaste #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival
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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - #TheRiverThatHarms
1987, Directed by Colleen Keane, Documentary, 45 min.
"This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the sound of a thunderclap, 94 million gallons of water contaminated with #UraniumMining waste broke through a #UnitedNuclearCorporation storage dam in 1979. The water poured into the #PuercoRiver in #NewMexico - the main water supply for the #Navajo that live along the river, and a tributary of the major source of water for #LosAngeles. Navajo ranchers, their children, and farm animals waded through the river unaware of the danger."
FMI -
https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/12549/The-River-That-Harms#NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #WaterIsLife #Dine #Dineh #UraniumPollution #RadioactiveWaste #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival
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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - #TheRiverThatHarms
1987, Directed by Colleen Keane, Documentary, 45 min.
"This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the sound of a thunderclap, 94 million gallons of water contaminated with #UraniumMining waste broke through a #UnitedNuclearCorporation storage dam in 1979. The water poured into the #PuercoRiver in #NewMexico - the main water supply for the #Navajo that live along the river, and a tributary of the major source of water for #LosAngeles. Navajo ranchers, their children, and farm animals waded through the river unaware of the danger."
FMI -
https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/12549/The-River-That-Harms#NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #WaterIsLife #Dine #Dineh #UraniumPollution #RadioactiveWaste #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival
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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - #TheRiverThatHarms
1987, Directed by Colleen Keane, Documentary, 45 min.
"This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the sound of a thunderclap, 94 million gallons of water contaminated with #UraniumMining waste broke through a #UnitedNuclearCorporation storage dam in 1979. The water poured into the #PuercoRiver in #NewMexico - the main water supply for the #Navajo that live along the river, and a tributary of the major source of water for #LosAngeles. Navajo ranchers, their children, and farm animals waded through the river unaware of the danger."
FMI -
https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/12549/The-River-That-Harms#NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #WaterIsLife #Dine #Dineh #UraniumPollution #RadioactiveWaste #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival
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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - #TheRiverThatHarms
1987, Directed by Colleen Keane, Documentary, 45 min.
"This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the sound of a thunderclap, 94 million gallons of water contaminated with #UraniumMining waste broke through a #UnitedNuclearCorporation storage dam in 1979. The water poured into the #PuercoRiver in #NewMexico - the main water supply for the #Navajo that live along the river, and a tributary of the major source of water for #LosAngeles. Navajo ranchers, their children, and farm animals waded through the river unaware of the danger."
FMI -
https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/12549/The-River-That-Harms#NoNukes #NoUraniumMining #WaterIsLife #Dine #Dineh #UraniumPollution #RadioactiveWaste #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival
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The next showing of the 2025 #UraniumFilmFestival will be November 21, 22 & 23 in #LasVegas #Nevada
ENTRY FREE
PROGRAM
November 21, Friday, 202510:00 am
Side Event: #PeaceCampVisit at US 95 Mercury Exit
More info at link below...6:00 pm
To Use a Mountain
USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary,
99 min.8:00 pm
SILENT WAR - IN THE SHADOW OF ATOMIC BOMBS
Part 1: DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Part 2: NUCLEAR MIRROR WORLDS
Germany/France, 2025, Directors: Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust, produced by Dirk van den
Berg / OutreMer Film with ZDF & ZDF Studios, Documentary, English, 104 minutesNovember 22, Saturday, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmUnder the Cloud
USA/Mexico, 2023, Director Pedro Reyes Alvarez, Documentary, 24 min.WAYS OF KNOWING: A NAVAJO NUCLEAR HISTORY
USA, 2025, Director: Kayla Briët, Producer: Adriel Luis, Sunny Dooley, Lovely Umayam, Writer: Lovely Umayam, Documentary, 23 min.6:00 pm
IN EXILE
USA, 2023, Director: Nathan Fitch, Producer: Angela Edward, Documentary, English, 12 min.Half-Life of Memory: America's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory
USA, 2024, Director: Jeff Gipe, Documentary, 55 min.FMI - https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/international-uranium-film-festival.html
Download PDF of program:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/2025_iuff_las_vegas_program_final.pdfMore information about #PeaceCamp:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/cnac_ana_site_visit.png#BoJacobs #LeonaMorgan #UFF #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NuclearWaste #UraniumMining #NoNuclearWar #Navajo
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The next showing of the 2025 #UraniumFilmFestival will be November 21, 22 & 23 in #LasVegas #Nevada
ENTRY FREE
PROGRAM
November 21, Friday, 202510:00 am
Side Event: #PeaceCampVisit at US 95 Mercury Exit
More info at link below...6:00 pm
To Use a Mountain
USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary,
99 min.8:00 pm
SILENT WAR - IN THE SHADOW OF ATOMIC BOMBS
Part 1: DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Part 2: NUCLEAR MIRROR WORLDS
Germany/France, 2025, Directors: Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust, produced by Dirk van den
Berg / OutreMer Film with ZDF & ZDF Studios, Documentary, English, 104 minutesNovember 22, Saturday, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmUnder the Cloud
USA/Mexico, 2023, Director Pedro Reyes Alvarez, Documentary, 24 min.WAYS OF KNOWING: A NAVAJO NUCLEAR HISTORY
USA, 2025, Director: Kayla Briët, Producer: Adriel Luis, Sunny Dooley, Lovely Umayam, Writer: Lovely Umayam, Documentary, 23 min.6:00 pm
IN EXILE
USA, 2023, Director: Nathan Fitch, Producer: Angela Edward, Documentary, English, 12 min.Half-Life of Memory: America's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory
USA, 2024, Director: Jeff Gipe, Documentary, 55 min.FMI - https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/international-uranium-film-festival.html
Download PDF of program:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/2025_iuff_las_vegas_program_final.pdfMore information about #PeaceCamp:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/cnac_ana_site_visit.png#BoJacobs #LeonaMorgan #UFF #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NuclearWaste #UraniumMining #NoNuclearWar #Navajo
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The next showing of the 2025 #UraniumFilmFestival will be November 21, 22 & 23 in #LasVegas #Nevada
ENTRY FREE
PROGRAM
November 21, Friday, 202510:00 am
Side Event: #PeaceCampVisit at US 95 Mercury Exit
More info at link below...6:00 pm
To Use a Mountain
USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary,
99 min.8:00 pm
SILENT WAR - IN THE SHADOW OF ATOMIC BOMBS
Part 1: DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Part 2: NUCLEAR MIRROR WORLDS
Germany/France, 2025, Directors: Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust, produced by Dirk van den
Berg / OutreMer Film with ZDF & ZDF Studios, Documentary, English, 104 minutesNovember 22, Saturday, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmUnder the Cloud
USA/Mexico, 2023, Director Pedro Reyes Alvarez, Documentary, 24 min.WAYS OF KNOWING: A NAVAJO NUCLEAR HISTORY
USA, 2025, Director: Kayla Briët, Producer: Adriel Luis, Sunny Dooley, Lovely Umayam, Writer: Lovely Umayam, Documentary, 23 min.6:00 pm
IN EXILE
USA, 2023, Director: Nathan Fitch, Producer: Angela Edward, Documentary, English, 12 min.Half-Life of Memory: America's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory
USA, 2024, Director: Jeff Gipe, Documentary, 55 min.FMI - https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/international-uranium-film-festival.html
Download PDF of program:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/2025_iuff_las_vegas_program_final.pdfMore information about #PeaceCamp:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/cnac_ana_site_visit.png#BoJacobs #LeonaMorgan #UFF #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NuclearWaste #UraniumMining #NoNuclearWar #Navajo
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The next showing of the 2025 #UraniumFilmFestival will be November 21, 22 & 23 in #LasVegas #Nevada
ENTRY FREE
PROGRAM
November 21, Friday, 202510:00 am
Side Event: #PeaceCampVisit at US 95 Mercury Exit
More info at link below...6:00 pm
To Use a Mountain
USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary,
99 min.8:00 pm
SILENT WAR - IN THE SHADOW OF ATOMIC BOMBS
Part 1: DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Part 2: NUCLEAR MIRROR WORLDS
Germany/France, 2025, Directors: Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust, produced by Dirk van den
Berg / OutreMer Film with ZDF & ZDF Studios, Documentary, English, 104 minutesNovember 22, Saturday, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmUnder the Cloud
USA/Mexico, 2023, Director Pedro Reyes Alvarez, Documentary, 24 min.WAYS OF KNOWING: A NAVAJO NUCLEAR HISTORY
USA, 2025, Director: Kayla Briët, Producer: Adriel Luis, Sunny Dooley, Lovely Umayam, Writer: Lovely Umayam, Documentary, 23 min.6:00 pm
IN EXILE
USA, 2023, Director: Nathan Fitch, Producer: Angela Edward, Documentary, English, 12 min.Half-Life of Memory: America's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory
USA, 2024, Director: Jeff Gipe, Documentary, 55 min.FMI - https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/international-uranium-film-festival.html
Download PDF of program:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/2025_iuff_las_vegas_program_final.pdfMore information about #PeaceCamp:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/cnac_ana_site_visit.png#BoJacobs #LeonaMorgan #UFF #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NuclearWaste #UraniumMining #NoNuclearWar #Navajo
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The next showing of the 2025 #UraniumFilmFestival will be November 21, 22 & 23 in #LasVegas #Nevada
ENTRY FREE
PROGRAM
November 21, Friday, 202510:00 am
Side Event: #PeaceCampVisit at US 95 Mercury Exit
More info at link below...6:00 pm
To Use a Mountain
USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary,
99 min.8:00 pm
SILENT WAR - IN THE SHADOW OF ATOMIC BOMBS
Part 1: DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Part 2: NUCLEAR MIRROR WORLDS
Germany/France, 2025, Directors: Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust, produced by Dirk van den
Berg / OutreMer Film with ZDF & ZDF Studios, Documentary, English, 104 minutesNovember 22, Saturday, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmUnder the Cloud
USA/Mexico, 2023, Director Pedro Reyes Alvarez, Documentary, 24 min.WAYS OF KNOWING: A NAVAJO NUCLEAR HISTORY
USA, 2025, Director: Kayla Briët, Producer: Adriel Luis, Sunny Dooley, Lovely Umayam, Writer: Lovely Umayam, Documentary, 23 min.6:00 pm
IN EXILE
USA, 2023, Director: Nathan Fitch, Producer: Angela Edward, Documentary, English, 12 min.Half-Life of Memory: America's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory
USA, 2024, Director: Jeff Gipe, Documentary, 55 min.FMI - https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/international-uranium-film-festival.html
Download PDF of program:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/2025_iuff_las_vegas_program_final.pdfMore information about #PeaceCamp:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/cnac_ana_site_visit.png#BoJacobs #LeonaMorgan #UFF #UraniumFilmFestival #NoNukes #NuclearWaste #UraniumMining #NoNuclearWar #Navajo
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#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘nuclear-is-green” deception
by William Eric Altvater, 6 February 2025
"Some #FirstNation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #IndigenousPeoples to expand #NuclearPower generation capacity in #Canada.
For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
Newcomers, armed with the Colonizing tool, “The Doctrine of Discovery” and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called “Savages,” almost totally exterminating Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for capitalism, a system to make a profit, that morphed into greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, deforestation is rampant, biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the “bigger, better, faster, more is never enough” mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that fossil fuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
So-called “Green Energy” is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
Nuclear power is now being touted as being “Green.” It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous Grandmothers have labelled it “Forever Dangerous.”
The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the radioactive waste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the “Nuclear is Green” mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #Peskotomuhkati Nation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
#NoNukes #NoNuclearDumping #NuclearColonialism #NuclearIsNotGreen #UraniumMining #RadioactiveWaste
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#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘nuclear-is-green” deception
by William Eric Altvater, 6 February 2025
"Some #FirstNation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #IndigenousPeoples to expand #NuclearPower generation capacity in #Canada.
For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
Newcomers, armed with the Colonizing tool, “The Doctrine of Discovery” and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called “Savages,” almost totally exterminating Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for capitalism, a system to make a profit, that morphed into greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, deforestation is rampant, biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the “bigger, better, faster, more is never enough” mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that fossil fuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
So-called “Green Energy” is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
Nuclear power is now being touted as being “Green.” It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous Grandmothers have labelled it “Forever Dangerous.”
The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the radioactive waste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the “Nuclear is Green” mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #Peskotomuhkati Nation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
#NoNukes #NoNuclearDumping #NuclearColonialism #NuclearIsNotGreen #UraniumMining #RadioactiveWaste
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#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘nuclear-is-green” deception
by William Eric Altvater, 6 February 2025
"Some #FirstNation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #IndigenousPeoples to expand #NuclearPower generation capacity in #Canada.
For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
Newcomers, armed with the Colonizing tool, “The Doctrine of Discovery” and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called “Savages,” almost totally exterminating Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for capitalism, a system to make a profit, that morphed into greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, deforestation is rampant, biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the “bigger, better, faster, more is never enough” mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that fossil fuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
So-called “Green Energy” is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
Nuclear power is now being touted as being “Green.” It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous Grandmothers have labelled it “Forever Dangerous.”
The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the radioactive waste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the “Nuclear is Green” mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #Peskotomuhkati Nation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
#NoNukes #NoNuclearDumping #NuclearColonialism #NuclearIsNotGreen #UraniumMining #RadioactiveWaste
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#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘nuclear-is-green” deception
by William Eric Altvater, 6 February 2025
"Some #FirstNation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #IndigenousPeoples to expand #NuclearPower generation capacity in #Canada.
For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
Newcomers, armed with the Colonizing tool, “The Doctrine of Discovery” and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called “Savages,” almost totally exterminating Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for capitalism, a system to make a profit, that morphed into greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, deforestation is rampant, biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the “bigger, better, faster, more is never enough” mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that fossil fuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
So-called “Green Energy” is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
Nuclear power is now being touted as being “Green.” It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous Grandmothers have labelled it “Forever Dangerous.”
The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the radioactive waste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the “Nuclear is Green” mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #Peskotomuhkati Nation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
#NoNukes #NoNuclearDumping #NuclearColonialism #NuclearIsNotGreen #UraniumMining #RadioactiveWaste
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#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘nuclear-is-green” deception
by William Eric Altvater, 6 February 2025
"Some #FirstNation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #IndigenousPeoples to expand #NuclearPower generation capacity in #Canada.
For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
Newcomers, armed with the Colonizing tool, “The Doctrine of Discovery” and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called “Savages,” almost totally exterminating Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for capitalism, a system to make a profit, that morphed into greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, deforestation is rampant, biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the “bigger, better, faster, more is never enough” mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that fossil fuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
So-called “Green Energy” is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
Nuclear power is now being touted as being “Green.” It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous Grandmothers have labelled it “Forever Dangerous.”
The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the radioactive waste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the “Nuclear is Green” mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #Peskotomuhkati Nation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
#NoNukes #NoNuclearDumping #NuclearColonialism #NuclearIsNotGreen #UraniumMining #RadioactiveWaste
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WTF! #Navajo Reporter #MarleyShebala Violently Arrested by #NavajoPolice, After Filing Ethics Complaint on Navajo President #BuuNygren
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, October 16, 2025
WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation -- "Navajo Police were sent today to evict Marley Shebala, Dine' Zuni Pueblo reporter, from her home. Marley, 73, screamed in pain as she was arrested by police. Marley had filed an ethics complaint against Navajo President Buu Nygren, and was reporting on the ongoing #corruption in the Navajo tribal government.
" 'I am 73 years old, and they have me handcuffed in my home with my daughter, our Navajo police, to
serve and protect' Marley says, as she continues to livestream. Navajo police used a locksmith to enter her home, before the violent arrest."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/10/navajo-reporter-marley-shebala.html#Diné #Dineh #ACAB #Journalists #ReaderSupportedNews #Journalism #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople #UraniumMining #NavajoNation #IndigenousNews #SilencingDissent #CoalMining #TrumpSucks #BeautifulCleanCoal #Cancer #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #EnergyFuels
#Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo
#Havasupai #UraniumMines
#EnvironmentalRacism #WhiteMesaMill #NukingTheNavajo #NukingTheUte #Ute #Paiute #Hopi #BidiiRoots #DineCARE #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #UraniumTransport #RadioactiveDust #RememberKleeBenally #BigCoal #DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally
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WTF! #Navajo Reporter #MarleyShebala Violently Arrested by #NavajoPolice, After Filing Ethics Complaint on Navajo President #BuuNygren
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, October 16, 2025
WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation -- "Navajo Police were sent today to evict Marley Shebala, Dine' Zuni Pueblo reporter, from her home. Marley, 73, screamed in pain as she was arrested by police. Marley had filed an ethics complaint against Navajo President Buu Nygren, and was reporting on the ongoing #corruption in the Navajo tribal government.
" 'I am 73 years old, and they have me handcuffed in my home with my daughter, our Navajo police, to
serve and protect' Marley says, as she continues to livestream. Navajo police used a locksmith to enter her home, before the violent arrest."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/10/navajo-reporter-marley-shebala.html#Diné #Dineh #ACAB #Journalists #ReaderSupportedNews #Journalism #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople #UraniumMining #NavajoNation #IndigenousNews #SilencingDissent #CoalMining #TrumpSucks #BeautifulCleanCoal #Cancer #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #EnergyFuels
#Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo
#Havasupai #UraniumMines
#EnvironmentalRacism #WhiteMesaMill #NukingTheNavajo #NukingTheUte #Ute #Paiute #Hopi #BidiiRoots #DineCARE #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #UraniumTransport #RadioactiveDust #RememberKleeBenally #BigCoal #DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally
#HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent
