Who Will Profit from Native Energy? | Project Censored
Energy on Native American land is becoming big business. According to the Indigenous Environmental Network, 35 percent of the fossil fuel resources in the US are within Indian country. The Department of the Interior estimates that Indian lands hold undiscovered reserves of almost 54 billion tons of coal, 38 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 5.4 billion barrels of oil. Tribal lands also contain enormous amounts of alternative energy. “Wind blowing through Indian reservations in just four northern Great Plains states could support almost 200,000 megawatts of wind power,” Winona LaDuke told Indian Country Today in March 2005, “Tribal landholdings in the southwestern US…could generate enough power to eradicate all fossil fuel burning power plants in the US.”
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Bismarck Tribune - Bismarck News - Open uranium pits worry residents
Prospectors want to shovel 300 to 500 scoops of dirt out of the Little Missouri National Grasslands in Slope and Billings counties and examine it for uranium. The same company is talking about building a plant on a railroad siding near Belfield or Bowman to acid treat and burn coal to extract that uranium.
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San Franciscans For Our City's Health: Hunter Point Naval Shipyard
Help cleanup the Hunterspoint nuclear waste disaster!
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Canaries in the Uranium Mine -- In These Times
Teddy Nez, a Navajo rancher and Vietnam War veteran, lives practically in the shadow of a 40-foot-high pile of radioactive waste abutting his small home outside of Gallup, N.M. Nez has colon cancer, which he treats with herbs — but not with ones growing near his house, because those could be contaminated with uranium.
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NIT: ALP nuke waste promise backtrack anagers landowners
June 12, 2008: Plans to fast-track Australia's first nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory are a betrayal of a Labor election promise, activists say. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson told Fairfax newspapers on Monday he wants to speed up a decision for a dump. The Northern Territory is the most likely location for the dump, with four sites in the territory under consideration.
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Not in my backyard anymore : ICT [2008/06/13]
WASHINGTON - In an effort to get nuclear waste moved away from Minnesota's Prairie Island Indian Community, its tribal officials are supporting a national nuclear dumping spot in Nevada - despite strong objections from Natives living in the Silver State.
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timestranscript.com - Mayor blasts drilling in 'sacred' watershed
Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc has written a letter to the Minister of Natural Resources expressing his concerns about news a drilling company may have been illegally drilling too close to Turtle Creek and within the Turtle Creek water supply's protected zone. "It's a little disconcerting to say the least," LeBlanc said yesterday. "In my view, the watershed is a sacred area. It's very vital and important to us." Meanwhile, a spokesman with the Department of Environment said yesterday it was too early to say if an offence had been committed after a drilling company was ordered to stop bituminous shale drilling near the East Branch of Turtle Creek earlier this week.
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Natives speaking out on uranium: Rutland Herald Online
BRATTLEBORO — The recent spate of advertisements promoting the electric power generated at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant as "clean and green" doesn't tell the true story, said two Native Americans whose native lands are severely affected by the nuclear power industry. Lorraine Rekmans, of the Northern Ojibwa people from Elliot Lake, Ontario, and Ian Zabarte, from Mercury, Nev., secretary of state of the Western Shoshone National Council, spoke in Brattleboro Monday night, their last stop in a weeklong visit to Vermont organized by the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance and Citizens Awareness Network.
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Traditional owners urged to back solar over uranium (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The chief executive officer of Alice Springs' native title body says traditional owners should not support a uranium mine south of the town. Darryl Pearce from Lhere Artepe says Aboriginal people would prefer to see solar technology projects instead of uranium mines.
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The History of Uranium Mining and the Navajo People -- Brugge and Goble 92 (9): 1410 -- American Journal of Public Health
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Navajos won’t allow uranium mining, President tells subcommittee | The Energy Net
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High Country News -- June 13, 2005: Navajos put more than 17 million acres off-limits
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Mohave Daily News: The Longest Walk fights for Indian rights, environmental protection
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http://www.alternet.org - AlterNet: The Democrats' Dirty Secret: Presidential Candidates Backed by Nuclear Powerhouses
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