MASE in the News
Research, reports, and advocacy from MASE communities.
Leaked recording reveals firings and disarray at agency BY: PATRICK LOHMANN – MARCH 3, 2025 2:57 PM Long-stalled NM uranium mines now ‘priority projects’ at Cibola Forest, leader tells employees Snow-capped Mount Taylor photographed by Cibola National Forest staff in
Arlyssa D. Becenti, Arizona Republic, January 8, 2025 https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/01/08/navajo-nation-epa-reach-agreement-to-clean-up-abandoned-uranium-site/77552078007/ After years of demanding the cleanup of uranium waste at the Kerr-McGee Quivira Mines on the Navajo Nation community advocates got the news this week that the Environmental Protection Agency will
EPA Signs Action Memo to Move Uranium Mine Waste from Churchrock to Red Rock Landfill For Immediate Release: January 7, 2025 Contacts: Teracita Keyanna – Red Water Pond Road Community Association terrykeyanna@yahoo.com 505-979-0552 Susan Gordon – Multicultural Alliance for a
December 15, 2024 – New Mexico – The Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE), a coalition dedicated to advancing environmental justice in uranium-impacted communities, has announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the position of Environmental Justice Coordinator. This
By Navajo Times | Sep 19, 2024 | News | By Donovan Quintero Special to the Times https://navajotimes.com/reznews/elder-red-water-pond-water-family-members-say-no-to-uranium-mining/ Bertha Nez, 78, from Red Water Pond Road, north of Church Rock, N.M., speaks on Friday about her home and how uranium
Gabrielle Wallace /Cronkite News Sept. 25, 2024 WASHINGTON – People exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests and uranium mines rallied Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol – along with tribal leaders – to demand action on a stalled compensation program.
Navajo Nation member Carol Etcitty-Roger speaks about cancer in her eye from radiation exposure during a news conference about the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act on Tuesday. Jose Luis Magana/For The Associated Press By Alaina Mencinger amencinger@sfnewmexican.com Sep 24, 2024 https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/advocates-on-long-road-to-reinstate-federal-radiation-exposure-act/article_da3a9cf0-79fc-11ef-918d-3f8d04b197a8.html?utm_source=santafenewmexican.com&utm_campaign=/newsletters/your-morning-headlines/?123&-dc=1727262027&utm_medium=email&utm_content=read
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By Cathy Cook / Journal Staff Writer, The Alburquerque Journal | Dec 20, 2023 The National Defense Authorization Act passed both the House and the Senate last week and has been sent to President Joe Biden’s desk. The annual bill will authorize defense spending, including billions for national labs and millions for military institutions in […]
By Jody Wilson, Gallup Independent | 12/6/23 Diné Bureau GALLUP — On Saturday, Maggie Billiman and several members of her family gathered at Camille’s in Gallup to make 30-second videos in support of extending and expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Billiman sent videos to news sources in Washington D.C. in hopes that members of Congress […]
Arlyssa D. Becenti, Arizona Republic | Feb 23, 2023 azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/02/23/plan-allows-uranium-waste-disposal-near-navajo-community The Red Water Pond Road Community Association wasn’t surprised when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decided to issue a license amendment allowing the United Nuclear Corporation to move toxic waste from the Northeast Church Rock mine to the company’s uranium mill site near Gallup. Teracita Keyanna, […]
by Mark Oldade and Maya Miller, video by Mauricio Rpdriguez Pons and Ed Ou, photography by Ed Out Published August 8, 2022 A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen. Now they’re trying a […]
Cleanup of Navajo uranium contamination ‘daunting’ By Kathy Helms, Special correspondent, khelms@gallupindependent.com April 29, 2022
Noel Lyn Smith Farmington Daily Times FARMINGTON — A decision that was expected this month about whether to remove uranium mine waste from an area near a Church Rock community or store it onsite near the community has been delayed for now by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Area residents have called on federal agencies […]
For Immediate Release September 22, 2021 Contact: Susan Gordon, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment www.swuraniumimpacts.org 505.577.8438, sgordon@swuraniumimpacts.org Linda Evers, Post 71 Uranium Workers Committee 505.287.2304, leversredfence123@gmail.com Larry King, Eastern Navajo Against Uranium Mining 505.979.411, l_king2013@yahoo.com New legislation offers hope – and urgency – for uranium mining survivors September 22, 2021: Today, Sen. Crapo […]
By Kirena Tsosie (keyclah@gmail.com) and Chris Shuey (sric.chris@gmail.com) Southwest Research and Information Center July 15, 2021 Every year at this time, the Red Water Pond Road Community Association (RWPRCA) of the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico gathers to remember the impacts of the largest release of radioactive waste, by volume, in U.S. history. An […]
By Linda Evers on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Cibola Citizen In just a year from July 11 the compensation program created under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) will come to an end. We need our elected representatives in Congress to extend and expand that program to help all of those in our state who […]
July 10, 2021 By Kathy Helms Special correspondent khelms@gallupindependent.com CHURCHROCK – Larry King, president of Churchrock Chapter and a former uranium worker, doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in the melting Arctic of receiving federal benefits afforded sick Navajos who worked in the uranium industry before 1971. King isn’t the only one. Linda Evers of Milan, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 3, 2020 Contact Eric Jantz, Staff Attorney, NMELC, 505-989-9022 x120 Susan Gordon, Coordinator, MASE, 505-577-8438 Joe Zupan, Executive Director, Amigos Bravos, 575-758-3874 Santa Fe – In a stunning victory for Native communities, Rio Grande Resources (RGR), owner of the Mt Taylor uranium mine, notified the Mining and Minerals Division (MMD) of […]
June L. Lorenzo, Laguna Pueblo/Navajo (Diné), is an attorney and consultant. Her law practice has included serving as attorney for Native nations, US Senate and US House of Representative committees; the US Department of Justice (voting rights litigation), in land claims litigation, and in human rights advocacy for Indigenous Peoples before the United Nations and […]
By Kathy Helms cibola@gallupindependent.com Gallup Independent November 2, 2019 MILAN – The New Mexico Environment Department has asked the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to collaborate with the state to ensure adequate characterization of a plume of uranium contamination leaving the Bluewater Disposal Site. Although DOE maintains control over groundwater resources […]
Instead of paying to clean up the mess left by mining, companies are warehousing their operations indefinitely. Mark Olalde and Joe Yerardi Image credit: Mark Olalde/Center for Public Integrity Sept. 4, 2019 https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.20/mining-while-zombie-mines-idle-cleanup-and-workers-suffer-in-limbo?fbclid=IwAR04m17SbEpc_61Eh1llzlWyhZ3keUBfzjQrPNBJz_AJrMu9YiYjDSnWKWc This investigation was produced in collaboration with High Country News, The Center for Public Integrity and the Ohio Valley ReSource. The sound […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2019 Contact: Edith Hood, Red Water Pond Road Community Association 505.905.8051 home, 505.713-4085 cell Susan Gordon, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, coordinator 505.577.8438 sgordon@swuraniumimpacts.org contact for photos or graphics Red Water Pond Road Community: 40 Years Since North East Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill That Was Never Investigated Nor Cleaned […]
Published March 23, 2019 Albuquerque Journal North New Mexico is poised to become the Nuclear Waste Dump State for the United States. Nuclear waste from nuclear weapons and waste from commercial nuclear power reactors are all heading to our state if we don’t fight back. There are efforts by the Energy Department to magically […]
By Dana Martinez December 8, 2018 Cibola County Bureau cibola2@gallupindependent.com GRANTS — Community members sat down for an afternoon of education on the area’s history of uranium mining at the Grants Public Library Friday. While that is not an uncommon occurrence for Cibola County, the day’s teachers were unique, elementary school students from St. Joseph […]
By Marley Shebala, Dec 3, 2018 Diné Bureau navajo1@gallupindependent.com WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Japanese cattle farmers may live more than 5,680 miles from the Navajo Nation, but they are connected to the Diné people by their fierce love for their livestock. In the film, “Nuclear Cat tle,” a middle-age Japanese couple recall with a flood […]
Noel Lyn Smith, Farmington Daily Times Published Nov. 30, 2018 Traveling festival makes 3-day stop in Window Rock (Photo: Noel Lyn Smith/The Daily Times) WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The International Uranium Film Festival began its three-day run at the Navajo Nation Museum here on Thursday. The film festival was founded in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro with […]
Farmington Daily Times by Noel Lyn Smith, Nov. 26, 2018 FARMINGTON — Documentaries that share stories about uranium mining and its legacy on Native American communities will be shown when the International Uranium Film Festival returns this week to Window Rock, Arizona. The free film festival starts Thursday at the Navajo Nation Museum and will feature film screenings […]
Press Release August 31, 2018 BVDA CALLS FOR FREE WATER AND FUTURE HEALTH CARE COSTS FOR ENTIRE COMMUNITY Homestake-Barrick Gold has now hired a director of US Corporate Responsibility, Rebecca Darling, who met with a small group of community members and promised those present that the company planned to begin living up to its commitment […]
PRESS RELEASE AUGUST 29, 2018 SANTA FE – The Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) and Amigos Bravos filed a Notice of Appeal of the New Mexico Mining Commission’s July 27, 2018, decision affirming the Mining and Minerals Division (MMD) Director’s earlier approval of the return to mining activity at the Mt Taylor […]
RILED ABOUT RECA By Kathy Helms, August 24, 2018 Special correspondent cibola@gallupindependent.com GRANTS — More than 100 people poured into the former Cibola County Complex this past Saturday, hoping for word that Congress is ready to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Unfortunately, Congress is not to that point yet. But those who worked in […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 1, 2018 Contacts Susan Gordon – MASE Coordinator 505.577.8438 Rachel Conn – Projects Director, Amigos Bravos 575.758.3874 Eric Jantz – Staff Attorney, NMELC 505.989.9022 x120 Mining Commission Issues Final Order on Mt Taylor Mine Permit “Active” Mining Operations Do Not Need to Actively Mine SANTA […]
7 am at Red Water Pond Road Community on Navajo Nation, 12 miles from Church Rock, NM
By Kathy Helms May 18, 2018 Cibola County Bureau cibola@gallupindependent.com GRANTS — At the time Gulf Mineral Resources Co. was looking to open the Mount Taylor Mine, most geologists knew that the Westwater occurrence would be mineralized with uranium east of the San Rafael Fault, but deemed it too deep, too wet, too hot to […]
By Kathy Helms May 16, 2018 Cibola County Bureau cibola@gallupindependent.com GRANTS — Christine Lowery, of Paguate Village, was 4 years old when uranium mining began at Anaconda Mineral Company’s Jackpile-Paguate Mine. She has seen the effects it has had on community members. She doesn’t want San Mateo residents living next to Mount Taylor Mine to […]
By Kathy Helms May 11, 2018 Cibola County Bureau cibola@gallupindependent.com SANTA FE — It will be several weeks before the New Mexico Mining Commission decides whether the state Mining and Minerals Division director erred in granting Rio Grande Resources’ request to reactivate the Mount Taylor Mine. While there are many factors to be weighed, economics […]
ZOMBIE MINE PLANS WOULD LEAVE IT HALF-DEAD WITH ZERO CLEANUP A Sacred Place is Threatened by Uranium Mining Mt Taylor Uranium Mine Public Hearing Monday, May 7 and Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 9 am PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD BEGINS AT 11:30 am Wendell Chino Building, 1220 South St Francis Drive, Santa Fe The Multicultural Alliance […]
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Contacts Susan Gordon, MASE Coordinator 505-577-8438 Rachel Conn, Amigos Bravos Projects Coordinator 575.770.8327 Eric Jantz, NMELC Staff Attorney 505.989.9022 x 120 Michael Jensen, NMELC Communications and Public Education 505.362.1063 Zombie Uranium Mine Begins to Stir Mining and Minerals Division Permit Violates State Mining Act SANTA FE, N.M.— The Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) and Amigos Bravos […]
New Mexico Environment Day Everything Is Connected. One Place. One Team. Advocating for the social, environmental, and economic health of New Mexico ENVIRONMENT DAY Feb. 1, 8:00am – 3:30pm Join MASE on Thursday, Feb 1st at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe Citizen lobbyists can make a real difference on issues ranging from promoting renewable energy […]
For immediate release – January 4, 2018 Mt. Taylor Mine “Return to Active” Permit Will Zombie Uranium Mine Continue to Avoid Cleanup? Contacts: Susan Gordon, coordinator, MASE, 505-577-8438, susangordon@earthlink.net Rachel Conn, Projects Director, Amigos Bravos, 575-770-8327, rconn@amigosbravos.org On December 29, 2017 the New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division (MMD) issued a Return to Active Permit for […]
Update on the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act (RECA) Amendments Campaign There are more than 30 groups working to gain justice and compensation for all uranium miners and downwind communities harmed by the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. For more information click here: https://swuraniumimpacts.org/category/library/radiation-exposure-compensation-act/ The US Senate and House will shortly be considering […]
Dear Colleagues: Will you join with the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) as we start a campaign for justice and compensation for the uranium miners at the front end of the nuclear fuel chain? We are advocating to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to include ALL uranium workers and additional downwind […]
Senator Charles Grassley is the chair of the Judiciary Committee. The RECA Amendments are assigned to his committee. We are urging him to hold a hearing. Download the postcard pdf. We encourage printing on bright orange or yellow card stock. The postcards are pre-addressed. Sign, add a stamp and send a message. Click here to […]
POST ’71 URANIUM WORKERS COMMITTEE 2 Community Meetings Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Pueblo of Acoma Tribal Gym 25 Pinsbarri Drive, Pueblo of Acoma and 3:00 pm – 5:00pm Living Hope Church Corner of Cordova & Lobo Canyon Rd, Grants Update on the RECA Amendments Washington Update Letter […]
Red Water Pond Road Community: 38 Years Since North East Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill That Was Never Investigated Nor Cleaned Up Uranium Tailings Spill Commemoration, Saturday, July 15, 7 am to 3 pm, 12 miles North of Red Rock State Park on State Highway 566 near Churchrock, NM The Red Water Pond Road Community […]
For Immediate Release June 27, 2017 INTERMOUNTAIN WEST URANIUM SUMMIT Calls for participation in our First Cross-Border Anti-Nuclear Action July 15-16 “Evidence shows that uranium kills” ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Intermountain West Uranium Summit participants are inviting affinity groups everywhere to take part on July 15-16 in our first Cross-Border Anti-Nuclear Action (CBAN), commemorating the […]
Saturday, July 15th, 2017 7 am to 3 pm at the Red Water Pond Road Community 12 miles North of Red Rock State Park near Church Rock on Navajo Nation For information contact Jackie Jefferson 505-905-0022 & Annie Benally 505-905-1288 Click here to download the flyer.
For more than seven decades, nuclear weapons have posed an intolerable, ever-present danger to all peoples and the planet as a whole. Because we abhor these instruments of terror and mass destruction, we warmly welcome the United Nations negotiations for a treaty to ban them. We write to remind those drafting this important new treaty about the ongoing […]
UN testimony reflects on human rights toll By Kathy Helms March 6, 2017 Cibola County Bureau cibola@gallupindependent.com ALBUQUERQUE — Although the focus of U.N. Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz’s recent trip to the United States focused on energy development and its impact on indigenous peoples, she welcomed testimony that would give her a wider range of […]
Testimony: Native input lacking on developments UN officials hear complaints of indigenous rights being ignored By Kathy Helms March 4, 2017 Cibola County Bureau cibola@gallupindependent.com ALBUQUERQUE — The concept of “free, prior and informed consent” referred to in the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is basically not worth the paper it’s […]
By Frances Madeson Special to the Navajo Times March 9, 2017 SANTA FE — Due to urgent business in Window Rock, Navajo Nation president Russell Begaye was unable to address the overflow crowd in the rotunda of the Roundhouse in Santa Fe on Uranium Workers Day as scheduled on Feb. 27. Consequently, he missed the […]
By Kathy Helms, Gallup Independent Feb 28, 2017 SANTA FE — The Legislature is finally on board with supporting post-1971 uranium workers and downwinders in the home state of the atomic bomb as well as expanding amendments to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to make them eligible to receive benefits. A memorial designating Uranium Workers […]
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For Immediate Release Monday, February 13th, 2017 Contact: For legal questions, contact Eric Jantz, (505) 750-3 027 or EJantz@nmelc.org For other questions, contact Talia Boyd, (505) 699-4544 or Talia@cvnm.org Gallup, N.M. – On behalf of two community groups, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center submitted a notice of intent to sue today to the McKinley […]
January 17, 2017 MILAN — When the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series, it was proof positive that nothing is impossible — except maybe getting Congress to pass the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act amendments as written. Or getting the New Mexico Legislature to show its support for sick, dead and dying contributors to the […]
A UNM Student project from the Nuclear NM class: Amy Sedillo, Sue Schuurman and Denise Brown invite you to join us in an evening dedicated to raising awareness and spur action on the JULY 16, 1979 Uranium Mine Spill in Church Rock, NM. One of the largest radioactive leaks in human history. Thursday, Dec. 1, 6-8p Albuquerque Center […]
By Kathy Helms 11/8/16 Cibola County Bureau cibola@gallupindependent.com CHURCHROCK — Approximately 140,000 cubic yards of radium contaminated material have been cleaned up from the Red Water Pond Road community near Churchrock using what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calls “time critical removal actions.” The big cleanup is yet to come. “Everything’s going backwards,” Bertha Nez […]
Gallup Independent, November 4, 2016 By Kathy Helms, Cibola County Bureau cibola@gallupindependent.com CHURCHROCK — Mongolian and Russian delegations from communities affected by mining have been visiting the Red Water Pond Road community since 2010. On Saturday, they were back at the home of Bertha Nez to compare notes on how their water and land have been […]
Sunday, October 23 10 am to 3 pm Protecting the mountains, valleys and mesas surrounding Mount Taylor from dirty fuels like uranium mining may seem like a task as big as the mountain itself, but you can start and join us in prayer or just take a hike! Event Details: WHAT: Deepening Our Understanding of Mt […]
MASE held a fundraising reception at the City of Mud Gallery in Santa Fe on September 27, 2016. It was an inspiring evening thanks to our presenters Navajo Nation Delegate Honorable Jonathan Perry, Laura Watchempino – Pueblo of Acoma, June Lorenzo – Pueblo of Laguna, and Kee and Teracita Keyanna – Red Water Pond Road […]
CHURCHROCK — During the 37th annual commemoration Saturday of the largest uranium spill in the United States, a moment of silence was held for the victims of the first U.S. atomic blast, which was not in Japan but in south central New Mexico at the Trinity Site July 16, 1945. The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium […]
By Talli Nauman, Native Sun News, Health & Environment Editor June 30, 2016 http://www.nsweekly.com/news/2016-06-29/Top_News/Largest_radioactive_spill_in_US_history_on_Navajo_.html WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Anticipating that “a large scale radiation contamination incident could impact the United States,” the EPA is giving the public until July 25 to comment on proposed guidelines for emergency drinking water safety. The guidelines, or Protective Action Guides (PAGs) are […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2016 Contact: Edith Hood, Red Water Pond Road Community Association 505.905.8051 home, 505.713-4085 cell Susan Gordon, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, coordinator 505.577.8438 sgordon@swuraniumimpacts.org contact for photos or graphics Red Water Pond Road Community: 37 Years Since North East Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill That Was Never Investigated Nor Cleaned […]
Oral Histories and Photographes of Navajo Uranium Miners & Their Families May 30, 2016 Introduction by Doug Brugge The Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project was a university-community collaboration which I initiated and led. Many people were involved in many different roles, but critically, it was Timothy Benally and Phil Harrison who conducted the interviews […]
On Monday April 4, 2016, members of the US Human Rights Network coordinated National Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Coalition shared powerful and heartbreaking stories of the lack of clean and safe water and sanitation in their lives and those of their families and communities. They talked about water contamination and the harmful health impacts in […]
18 April 2016 Dear Mr. President: We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to cancel the 20 April 2016 Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Santa Fe, New Mexico. This lease sale, as do all new federal fossil fuel leases, continues a dangerous disconnect between your administration’s climate goals […]
For Immediate Release, April 18, 2016 SANTA FE, N.M.— Local, regional and national organizations sent a letter to President Obama today calling on him to keep federal fossil fuels in the ground and cancel the Bureau of Land Management’s federal oil and gas auction slated for April 20 in Santa Fe, N.M., owing to concerns […]
Shadow Proof April 4, 2016 by Kevin Gosztola In a hearing hosted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, representatives of indigenous, working class, and minority populations in the United States testified on water and sanitation crises. The hearing hosted by IACHR, which is part of the Organization of American States (OAS), was scheduled in response to […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 1, 2016 INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO HEAR RIGHT TO WATER TESTIMONY “It is past time for the U.S. and New Mexico governments to take our concerns seriously and take action to guarantee our rights to safe water.” Teracita Keyanna, Red Water Pond Road Community Association WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, April 4, 2016 […]
The cost of drinking water and sewer services in the United States, rising on average at twice the rate of inflation, is giving birth to a new civil rights movement, one based on access to water and sanitation for the poor. Stirred by the thousands of Detroiters whose water service was shut off in 2014, […]
Inside America’s atomic state Residents of New Mexico reflect on the toxic legacy of life at the centre of the US nuclear complex. Samuel Gilbert | 16 Feb 2016 13:55 GMT | Al Jazzera Seventy years ago last August, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay released its 4,000kg load over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, […]
In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put it, “ate up with cancer,” while others […]
Jan 25, 2016 By Kathy Helms Cibola County Bureau GRANTS — Petuuche Gilbert, a member of the Pueblo of Acoma, will join indigenous activists from the Navajo Nation, Standing Rock Sioux and Oglala Sioux Nation this week in Washington to raise awareness about radiation poisoning in their communities. The group is scheduled to present […]
New York Times: Amid Toxic Waste, a Navajo Village Could Lose Its Land By DAN FROSCH FEB. 19, 2014 A contaminated pile near the community of Red Water Pond Road holds a million cubic yards of waste from the Old Northeast Church Rock Mine. Mark Holm for The New York Times CHURCH ROCK, N.M. […]
Activists mount campaign for EPA to scrap N.M. uranium mine permit Posted: May 9, 2012 Written by MANUEL QUINONES, Greenwire Environmental advocates are pressing U.S. EPA to revoke a key permit for a planned uranium mining facility in northwestern New Mexico adjacent to the Navajo Nation. The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and Eastern Navajo […]
Sacred N.M. Mountain Remains at Center of Uranium Fight By APRIL REESE of Greenwire Published in The New York Times: August 18, 2011 GRANTS, N.M. — With Mount Taylor looming in the distance, western New Mexico citizens, elected leaders, environmental groups and tribal members clashed at a hearing before state regulators last night about whether […]
Crowd divided on mining issue By Wren Abbott Santa Fe Reporter | sfreporter.com The New Mexico Mining and Minerals Department will issue a decision Thursday, Sept. 1 regarding the Mt Taylor Mine operator’s application to keep the site open. At a four-hour hearing last night at Cibola Convention Center in Grants, the state MMD listened […]
After a dark legacy of radioactive contamination, plans to re-open uranium mines near sacred Native American lands raise fears for the environment and human health.
This Seventh Generation Fund video production highlights important aspects of the 7th Southwest Uranium Summit: To hear more testimonies from the 7th Southwest Uranium Summit, visit earthcycles.net
Nuclear Power Not Clean, Green or Safe by Jennifer Marshall One week after the devastating earthquake unleashed a tsunami in which at least 10,000 people are feared dead, Japan is facing a deepening nuclear disaster. The only good that can possibly come out of this crisis is that the world will reassess nuclear safety in […]
In February, MASE organizer, Nadine Padilla, New Mexico Environmental Law Center attorney, Eric Jantz, and Southwest Research and Information Center’s director of Uranium Impact Assessment Program, Chris Shuey, were interviewed for an article that appeared in the Colorado College’s Cipher Magazine. Following is the resulting article. By Joel Minor The story of the Wild West is […]
By Marjorie Childress 6/24/10 8:36 AM The single largest release of liquid radioactive waste in the United States occurred at the Churchrock, N.M. uranium mill, above, in 1979. The resumption of uranium mining in northwest New Mexico just got a little closer. A divided 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last […]
New Mexico Indigenous Leaders Protest the Expansion of Uranium Mining and the Nuclear Cycle of Destruction Demand a Clean Up of This Toxic Legacy and Respect for Sacred Lands Wednesday, May 26, Noon Grand Hyatt Hotel 1750 Welton Street, Denver, Colorado On May 25-27 a delegation of Navajo community leaders will come to Denver to […]
Nuclear Power Industry News is a blog about utilities, companies, suppliers in the nuclear energy market. Resisting the Nuclear Boom: A new wave of uranium mining threatens Indigenous communities in the Southwest By Klee Benally and Jessica Lee March 31, 2010 PRAYER FOR THE LAND: Damon Whatahogamie, a member of the Havasupai Nation who live […]
By Cindy Yurth Tséyi’ Bureau GALLUP, Nov. 19, 2009 Larry King, foreground, and other protestors protest against a presentatin by Uranium Resources Inc. at Sammy C’s Nov. 12 in Gallup. URI wants to reopen mining operations in the Church Rock and Crownpoint areas. As members of the Gallup Chamber of Commerce gathered Nov. 12 for […]
Leave Uranium in the Ground Protect our Water Gallup/McKinley Chamber of Commerce needs to honor Navajo neighbors! WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT #1: URI/HRI wants to buy influence among Gallup and McKinley County businesses through the Chamber of Commerce. They will say ISL mining is “benign.” But what they won’t tell you is that USGS has […]