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'It's awful, and we don't want it to happen again': Navajo Nation takes stand against uranium transports

A pause of the uranium transports from the mine south of the Grand Canyon through the Navajo Nation to Utah is currently in effect.

On Friday, a group of protestors walked on Highway 89 in Cameron, Ariz., protesting Pinyon Plain Mine owner Energy Fuels trucking uranium ore through the Navajo Nation to Utah. Uranium has a long history of impacts on the Navajo Nation and its people since the 1940s. "We've seen the effects of these things in the past on our land, the spills into our rivers, into our communities, the residual effects on our on our health, of our children, our elders," Cameron resident Adair Klopfenstein said. "It's awful, and we don't want it to happen again." The Pinyon Plain Mine, formerly known as Canyon Mine, began mining uranium ore in December and is expected to be actively mining for at least five years. The company had told 12News at the end of June it would start transporting the uranium ore to a mill in southeast Utah in July or August. That hauling appears to have started before the pause was put in place. "I call it illegal smuggling across our border and then through the Navajo Nation," Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said.

Inside Climate News

After Navajo Nation Condemns Uranium Hauling on Its Lands, Arizona Governor Negotiates a Pause - Inside Climate News

The temporary halt is intended to allow the tribe and Energy Fuels Resources to reach an agreement over transporting the radioactive materia

AP News

Navajo Nation plans to test limit of tribal law preventing transportation of uranium on its land

The Navajo Nation plans to test the limits of a tribal law that banned the transportation of uranium ore on its lands.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Uranium mining and the Navajo people - Wikipedia

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Cronkite News

Atom test downwinders and Navajo uranium workers seek justice after aid expires

Congress let the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expire June 10, leaving Navajo uranium workers and people downwind of nuclear weapons t

KUER

What's next for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act now that it's expired?

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expired on Friday, June 7, leaving many people who were affected by nuclear testing and research in

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