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| Protest at Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine in Grand Canyon in August. Photo Center for Biological Diversity |
Protests Against Grand Canyon Uranium Mine Continue Saturday, August 24, 2024
Coalition statement, Censored News
GRAND CANYON, Arizona — Conservation advocates will join Tribal leaders and members Saturday, Aug. 24, to demand the closure of the Pinyon Plain uranium mine that threatens the waters of the Grand Canyon and the Havasupai Tribe.
What: Protest near Red Butte and the Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine calling on Gov. Hobbs and federal officials to close the mine.
When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24.
Where: Junction of Highway 64 and Forest Service Road 320, 10.5 miles north of Grand Canyon Junction (Valle, Arizona). Here is a map.
Who: Staff and members of the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Chispa Arizona, Wild Arizona, National Parks Conservation Association and other groups will join Havasupai Tribal leaders and members of other Tribes in solidarity and will be available for interviews.
The mine, which began extracting uranium ore on Jan. 8, is 7 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park, at the foot of sacred Red Butte (Wii'i Gdwiisa in Havasupai), and inside the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
Saturday’s protest will come after weeks of recent actions opposing the mine and the hauling of radioactive uranium ore across the Navajo Nation, which has called the transportation of uranium across its land an infringement on Tribal sovereignty.
Earlier this month Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren issued an executive order banning shipments of uranium from the mine across the Nation; hauling is now paused. Soon after Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called for an updated environmental study on the mine, warning of potential risks of allowing the mine to proceed under the authority of a nearly 40-year-old Environmental Impact Statement.
In June, Tribal members and conservation groups delivered a petition with more than 17,000 signatures urging Gov. Hobbs to use her authority to close the mine. In January, 80 groups and scientists called on her to do the same. New research indicates that the best way to protect the waters of the region is to shut down the mine.
Contact:
Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, TMcKinnon@biologicaldiversity.org
DJ Portugal, Chispa Arizona, dportugal@lcv.org
Caitlyn Burford, National Parks Conservation Association, cburford@npca.org
Kelly Burke, Wild Arizona, kelly@wildarizona.org
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
GRAND CANYON, Arizona — Conservation advocates will join Tribal leaders and members Saturday, Aug. 24, to demand the closure of the Pinyon Plain uranium mine that threatens the waters of the Grand Canyon and the Havasupai Tribe.
What: Protest near Red Butte and the Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine calling on Gov. Hobbs and federal officials to close the mine.
When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24.
Where: Junction of Highway 64 and Forest Service Road 320, 10.5 miles north of Grand Canyon Junction (Valle, Arizona). Here is a map.
Who: Staff and members of the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Chispa Arizona, Wild Arizona, National Parks Conservation Association and other groups will join Havasupai Tribal leaders and members of other Tribes in solidarity and will be available for interviews.
The mine, which began extracting uranium ore on Jan. 8, is 7 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park, at the foot of sacred Red Butte (Wii'i Gdwiisa in Havasupai), and inside the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
Saturday’s protest will come after weeks of recent actions opposing the mine and the hauling of radioactive uranium ore across the Navajo Nation, which has called the transportation of uranium across its land an infringement on Tribal sovereignty.
Earlier this month Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren issued an executive order banning shipments of uranium from the mine across the Nation; hauling is now paused. Soon after Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called for an updated environmental study on the mine, warning of potential risks of allowing the mine to proceed under the authority of a nearly 40-year-old Environmental Impact Statement.
In June, Tribal members and conservation groups delivered a petition with more than 17,000 signatures urging Gov. Hobbs to use her authority to close the mine. In January, 80 groups and scientists called on her to do the same. New research indicates that the best way to protect the waters of the region is to shut down the mine.
Contact:
Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, TMcKinnon@biologicaldiversity.org
DJ Portugal, Chispa Arizona, dportugal@lcv.org
Caitlyn Burford, National Parks Conservation Association, cburford@npca.org
Kelly Burke, Wild Arizona, kelly@wildarizona.org
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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