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