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DoomsdaysCW<p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> Targeted Again for Sacrifice Zone: '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> Companies Preying on the People'</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> ask: Why is the Navajo Nation allowing energy companies to prey on communities and individuals? </p><p>By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 23, 2024</p><p>"Dine' on the Navajo Nation are now targeted with a push to revitalize dirty coal energy, and a hydropower project that would pump precious water from their aquifer. Dine' question why the Navajo Nation government is allowing energy companies to prey on the communities and individuals.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LouiseBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LouiseBenally</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigMountain</span></a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s aunt] said the bottom line is greed. 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'</p><p>"The new stampede of parasitic energy companies to the Navajo Nation comes at the same time that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a> trucks, covered only with tarps, are traveling across the Navajo Nation, from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> uranium mine to the mill in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a> community in Utah.</p><p>"At the same time, more than 500 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a>, and scattered radioactive debris, remain on the Navajo Nation, and was never cleaned up by the U.S. government. Dirty coal mines and power plants left the legacy of death and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a>.</p><p>Navajo Council Plans Meeting on Revitalizing Coal Industry<br> <br>"Citing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s push for new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalMining</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNationCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNationCouncil</span></a> plans to hold a public hearing on<br>revitalizing the coal industry.<br> <br>"The Navajo Nation Council announced the public hearing, stating that on April 8 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled, 'Reinvigorating America’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeautifulCleanCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeautifulCleanCoal</span></a> Industry<br>and Amending Executive Order 14241' aimed at reversing past federal policies, to boost the coal industry and to strengthen the country’s national energy security, according to the White House. </p><p>"The public hearing is scheduled in Forest Lake Chapter on Friday, May 30. Louise Benally and her family spent their lives battling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyCoal</span></a> and resisting forced relocation at Big Mountain on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMesa</span></a>. She said what Trump is doing is another chapter in the assault on the land and people.<br> <br>" 'Pl 93-531 is a law created by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarryGoldwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarryGoldwater</span></a> to target our rights to water and land base to be taken away. He developed that law so, with what Trump is trying to do is no different.'</p><p>" 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'</p><p>" 'The American political system is not our government as traditional people which is where all our modern day problems come from in the form of an endless greed to keep eating up the earth and the natural resources.'</p><p>"Louise questioned Navajo Nation President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuuNygren</span></a>'s support of Trump and coal mining in Washington, and Nygren's agreement for uranium trucks to cross the Navajo Nation. 'The Navajo Nation government is at a crossroads. Buu has been taken by Trump, and the people he is supposed to be responsible for are in question.'</p><p>" 'He has been taken into the bag of greed -- uranium and coal yet, there is no water. We want accountability.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/navajo-nation-targeted-again-for.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/navajo-nation-targeted-again-for.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineteh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dineteh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheUte</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidiiRoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BidiiRoots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DineCARE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DineCARE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlainUraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlainUraniumMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumTransport</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveDust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveDust</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RememberKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RememberKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FlagstaffAZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlagstaffAZ</span></a>: Radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uranium</span></a> Truck Driver in Medical Distress: Endangerment on the Haul Route</p><p>by Shannonlynn Chester,,May 8, 2025, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> </p><p>Excerpt: "The Navajo Nation, law enforcement and the mainstream media downplayed the risks today to Navajos and everyone on the haul route. </p><p>"This comes after Navajo President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuuNygren</span></a> cut a secret deal with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> for the uranium transport trucks to pass through the Navajo Nation.<br>Nygren released a statement about the sick truck driver. Nygren said the Navajo Nation EPA coordinated with the Coconino County Sheriff's Office and the Flagstaff Fire Department. The Fire Department conducted radiation scans on the truck and said that the radiation levels at the location were within safe limits.</p><p>"Three other uranium ore trucks at the designated inspection site were allowed to pass and continue to the White Mesa Mill, Nygren said. </p><p>Energy Fuels notified the Navajo Nation EPA at 11:40 a.m. that the fourth truck -- whose driver was sick -- returned back to the Pinyon Plain Mine, Nygren said.<br>Coconino County Sheriff Bret Axlund said the truck driver had "flu-like symptoms" and refused medical transport from the site. An ambulance was called to the site, just north of Flagstaff, in the area of Hwy 89 and Townsend Winona Road. </p><p>"Earlier, the Navajo Nation Council said President Nygren entered into a secret deal with Energy Fuels, without the knowledge or consent of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoCouncil</span></a>, to allow the uranium ore trucks to pass through the Navajo Nation from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> mine enroute to Utah.<br> <br>"More than 500 uranium mines and scattered radioactive waste remain on the Navajo Nation, which the U.S. never cleaned up after the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a>, resulting in widespread cancer for Dine'."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/now-flagstaff-radioactive-uranium-truck.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/now-flagstaff-radioactive-uranium-truck.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidiiRoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BidiiRoots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DineCARE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DineCARE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheUte</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineteh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dineteh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlainUraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlainUraniumMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumTransport</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveDust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveDust</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityForum</span></a>: Shut Down <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMine</span></a>, Halt <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radioactive</span></a><br>Trucks, March 25, 2025</p><p>via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, March 20, 2025</p><p>"Do you have questions about the transportation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a>? Do you live on the haul route?</p><p>Join us Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MexicanWaterChapterHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MexicanWaterChapterHouse</span></a> to discuss the uranium transport by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a><br>from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlain</span></a> Mine to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesa</span></a> Mill: speakers, Q&amp;A, and light refreshments will be provided.</p><p>Co-sponsors: Mexican Water Chapter, Bidii Roots, Dine CARE and HaulNo!</p><p>WHEN: Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 1-4 PM<br>LOCATION: Mexican Water Chapter House, US Hwy 191 Mile Post 2, Bluff, Utah 84512</p><p>Contact:<br>(928) 429-0943<br>mexicanwater@navajochapters.org</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/mexican-water-community-forum-shut-down.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03</span><span class="invisible">/mexican-water-community-forum-shut-down.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidiiRoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BidiiRoots</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DineCARE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DineCARE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheUte</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlainUraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlainUraniumMines</span></a></p>