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“The thing about the Darrow Pit Mine is they are only about 40 miles from Mount Rushmore, millions of tourists travel to Mount Rushmore every year not knowing that they are breathing in radioactive dust and the water that they drink in the motels in Rapid City contains uranium,” White Face says.
She also discusses the Riley Pass mine and a warning sign that’s posted warning people to not stay for more than one day within a one-year period. It also says “NO CAMPING.”
White Face goes on to discuss how cancer rates for Native American people in the Northern Great Plains are higher than anyone in the country.
“When we’re standing by that sacred site praying, we’re breathing in a lot of these harmful materials,” she says.
White Face and those working with her as Defenders of the Black Hills have started calling it America’s Chernobyl because as
Dr. K. Kearfott, a nuclear physics professor at the University of Michigan, said: “The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima nuclear disaster…”
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/02/americas-chernobyl-results-uranium-mining-great-plains-151091
The Latest: Mt. Taylor uranium mines still haunt Navajo communities
- by Krista Langlois
America’s Chernobyl: Radioactive Dust Near Mt. Rushmore & Black Hills
September 02, 2013
In this video Charmaine White Face, a member of the Oglala band of the Great Sioux Nation, explains uranium mining and its health effects on the people of the Great Plains.
She explains where the abandoned open pit uranium mines are—a total of 3,272 in the states of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Colorado she says.
She explains where the abandoned open pit uranium mines are—a total of 3,272 in the states of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Colorado she says.
She also discusses the Riley Pass mine and a warning sign that’s posted warning people to not stay for more than one day within a one-year period. It also says “NO CAMPING.”
White Face goes on to discuss how cancer rates for Native American people in the Northern Great Plains are higher than anyone in the country.
“When we’re standing by that sacred site praying, we’re breathing in a lot of these harmful materials,” she says.
White Face and those working with her as Defenders of the Black Hills have started calling it America’s Chernobyl because as
Dr. K. Kearfott, a nuclear physics professor at the University of Michigan, said: “The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima nuclear disaster…”
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/02/americas-chernobyl-results-uranium-mining-great-plains-151091
The Latest: Mt. Taylor uranium mines still haunt Navajo communities
- by Krista Langlois
Backstory
The controversy surrounding Mount Taylor -- a volcano in northwest New Mexico sacred to several tribes -- began in 2008, when the tribes sought to protect it from further uranium mining ("Dueling Claims," HCN, 12/7/09). After contamination from the mines sickened workers, they fought to have 400,000 acres of federal, state and private lands designated as "traditional cultural property," which raises the level of scrutiny for development proposals. That sparked heated debate among other locals who feared being locked out and led to a spate of violence against Navajos. Despite rulings supporting the designation, the wounds continue to fester.
Followup
On July 22, Santa Fe District Judge Raymond Ortiz overturned a state ruling that would have renewed a permit for an inactive uranium mine within the traditional cultural property area on Mount Taylor, filed by General Atomics. Ortiz ruled that the state failed to provide adequate opportunities for public comment, noting that General Atomics' report on the mine's economic viability should have been made public. The mine renewal process will now be re-opened for public comment.
http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.15/the-latest-mt-taylor-uranium-mines-still-haunt-navajo-communitiesThe controversy surrounding Mount Taylor -- a volcano in northwest New Mexico sacred to several tribes -- began in 2008, when the tribes sought to protect it from further uranium mining ("Dueling Claims," HCN, 12/7/09). After contamination from the mines sickened workers, they fought to have 400,000 acres of federal, state and private lands designated as "traditional cultural property," which raises the level of scrutiny for development proposals. That sparked heated debate among other locals who feared being locked out and led to a spate of violence against Navajos. Despite rulings supporting the designation, the wounds continue to fester.
Followup
On July 22, Santa Fe District Judge Raymond Ortiz overturned a state ruling that would have renewed a permit for an inactive uranium mine within the traditional cultural property area on Mount Taylor, filed by General Atomics. Ortiz ruled that the state failed to provide adequate opportunities for public comment, noting that General Atomics' report on the mine's economic viability should have been made public. The mine renewal process will now be re-opened for public comment.
