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DoomsdaysCWSome good news! Though potential contamination from long-term storage needs to be addressed (what else is new).<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a> to Relocate Toxic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UraniumMine</a> Waste from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NavajoNation</a> By Neely Bardwell, January 08, 2025 "The Environmental Protection Agency will move <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uranium</a> mine waste from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChurchrockNewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChurchrockNewMexico</a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedRock</a> regional landfill where it can be safely stored forever. "The federal agency signed an action memo to transport radioactive waste at the Quivira Mining Co. Churchrock Mine to a disposal site at the Red Rock regional landfill about six miles east of the Village of Thoreau. The cleanup will begin in early 2025 and continue for 6-8 years."For the Red Water Pond Road Community Association (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RWPRCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RWPRCA</a>), which has advocated for waste removal since 2006, the decision marks a significant shift in addressing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UraniumContamination</a> on Navajo land."'Removing the mine waste from our community will protect our health and finally put us back on a positive track to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/H%C3%B3zh%C7%AB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hózhǫ</a> (balance),' said Teracita Keyanna, RPWPRCA executive committee member. 'I think this decision empowers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grassroots</a> organizations like ours and our allies to continue to advocate and educate to clean up hundreds of abandoned uranium mines that threaten our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Diné</a> communities every day.'"RWPRCA President Edith Hood said the community has dealt with the impact of uranium mining since the late 1960s. Commercial mining began at the site under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KerrMcGee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KerrMcGee</a> Corporation, which later became the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/QuiviraMiningCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QuiviraMiningCompany</a>. The operation extracted an estimated 1.3 million tons of uranium ore before closing in 1986. The Navajo Nation currently has more than 520 documented <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbandonedMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AbandonedMines</a>, with no disposal facilities for uranium waste within 350 miles of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TribalLands</a>."'Many of us suffer chronic health problems and a degraded homeland as a result,' Hood said. 'We advocate for a regional approach to addressing remediation of nearly 100 abandoned uranium mines in the Eastern Navajo Agency. We are committed to making sure the removal of mine waste from our community does not threaten the health and safety of our Diné neighbors.'"Previous attempts to address the waste proved unsuccessful. In 2011 and 2013, the EPA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a plan to place 1 million cubic yards of waste from NECRM on top of the existing tailings pile located half a mile from RWPRC village. Effectively, neither of those wastes were removed from the communities."The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedRockLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedRockLandfill</a> currently handles municipal waste from McKinley and Cibola counties and Navajo Nation communities as far away as Tuba City. The planned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumDisposalCell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UraniumDisposalCell</a> will occupy a separate area of the 640-acre site adjacent to the shuttered <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Escalante" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Escalante</a> power plant."The Northwest New Mexico Regional Solid Waste Authority (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NNMRSWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NNMRSWA</a>), which owns the landfill, must show that its operations can protect <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GroundWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GroundWater</a>, air and soil, while safeguarding public health for decades to come. The New Mexico Environment Department will oversee long-term monitoring of the site."Chris Shuey, who has documented mining and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/milling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#milling</a> impacts in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Churchrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Churchrock</a> area for 40 years as an environmental health specialist at Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, said relocating uranium waste is essential for tribal communities. "'Removing mine wastes from Navajo communities to engineered, regional disposal sites is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> imperative,' Shuey said, noting that more than half of all Navajo chapters have at least one source of unhealthy uranium exposure. 'The federal government must continue looking for suitable sites for long-term disposal of mine wastes to protect current and future Navajo populations.'"'This decision will remove over 1 million cubic yards of waste that has haunted the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedWaterPondRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedWaterPondRoad</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PipelineRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PipelineRoad</a> communities for too long,' EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Martha Guzman said in a statement. "'This solution is a compromise that will get <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWaste</a> in this area off of the Navajo Nation as soon as possible,' Navajo Nation President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BuuNygren</a> said in the EPA statement. 'It’s not everything the three affected communities would wish for but it’s action in the right direction now rather than in the future. Most importantly, this will protect our people from harmful exposure.'"Source: <a href="https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/epa-to-relocate-toxic-mine-waste-from-navajo-nation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/epa-to-relocate-toxic-mine-waste-from-navajo-nation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoUraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UraniumMills</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NukingTheNavajo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericanNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaulNo</a>

DoomsdaysCWFrom 2006: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BunkerBuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BunkerBuster</a> bombs containing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DepletedUranium</a> warheads used by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Israel</a> against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#civilian</a> targets in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lebanon</a> By Dr. Doug Rokke Global Research, November 06, 2006"The delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uranium</a> warheads by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in additional <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#radioactive</a> and chemical <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toxic</a> contamination with consequent adverse health and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environmental</a> effects throughout the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MiddleEast</a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Israeli</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TankGunners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TankGunners</a> are also using depleted uranium tank rounds as photographs verify."Today, U.S., British, and now Israeli military personnel are using illegal uranium munitions- America’s and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#England</a>’s own '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirtyBombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DirtyBombs</a>' while U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, and British Ministry of Defence officials deny that there are any adverse health and environmental effects as a consequence of the manufacture, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions to avoid liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material – depleted uranium."The use of uranium weapons is absolutely unacceptable, and a crime against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanity</a>. Consequently the citizens of the world and all governments must force cessation of uranium weapons use. I must demand that Israel now provide medical care to all DU casualties in Lebanon and clean up all DU contamination."U.S. and British officials have arrogantly refused to comply with their own regulations, orders, and directives that require United States Department of Defense officials to provide prompt and effective medical care to “all” exposed individuals. Reference: Medical Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium Casualties, DOD, Pentagon, 10/14/93, Medical Management of Army personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) Headquarters, U.S. Army Medical Command 29 April 2004, and section 2-5 of U.S. Army Regulation 700-48. Israeli officials must not do so now.[...]"The previous and current use of uranium weapons, the release of radioactive components in destroyed U.S. and foreign military equipment, and releases of industrial, medical, research facility radioactive materials have resulted in unacceptable exposures. Therefore, decontamination must be completed as required by U.S. Army Regulation 700-48 and should include releases of all radioactive materials resulting from military operations."The extent of adverse health and environmental effects of uranium weapons contamination is not limited to combat zones but includes facilities and sites where uranium weapons were manufactured or tested including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vieques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vieques</a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PuertoRico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PuertoRico</a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColonieNewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ColonieNewYork</a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConcordMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConcordMA</a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeffersonProvingGrounds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JeffersonProvingGrounds</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Indiana</a>; and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SchofieldBarracks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SchofieldBarracks</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hawaii</a>. Therefore medical care must be provided by the United States Department of Defense officials to all individuals affected by the manufacturing, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions. Thorough environmental remediation also must be completed without further delay."Read more: <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/bunker-buster-bombs-containing-depleted-uranium-warheads-used-by-israel-against-civilian-targets-in-lebanon/3748" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.globalresearch.ca/bunker-buster-bombs-containing-depleted-uranium-warheads-used-by-israel-against-civilian-targets-in-lebanon/3748</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoUraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BannedWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BannedWeapons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DU</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UraniumContamination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WarCrimes</a>

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