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Navajo Nation is 'Back Peddling' by Allowing Uranium Transport through Dine' Communities and More Dumping on Utes By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 8, 2025 Translated into French by Christine Prat TUBA CITY -- Leona Morgan, Dine' co-founder of Haul No!, said the Navajo Nation is now "back peddling" by allowing radioactive uranium waste to be transported through Dine' communities. This radioactive transport from the Grand Canyon means even more deadly waste for another Native community -- the White Mesa Ute community in Utah. Speaking at a community forum in Tuba City on Saturday, Leona said there has been little or no information along the haul route. The Navajo government expects the Dine' Chapters on the route to each have an emergency preparedness plan. Leona asked if the Dine' communities are aware of this and whether the Navajo Chapters are certified to deal with radioactive emergencies. |
February 9, 2025
Navajo Nation is 'Back Peddling' by Allowing Uranium Transport through Dine' Communities and More Dumping on Utes
Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Permit Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Mine Permitted Without Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
Numu/Nuwu and Newe prayer horse riders pictured in front of the mountain range approaching Peehee Mu’huh on the annual memorial and prayer horse ride in honor of the 1865 massacre and other atrocities that occurred across the state. Fort McDermitt, Nevada, March 24, 2024.
© 2024 Alison Leal Parker/Human Rights Watch
Lithium Mine Permit Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Mine Permitted Without Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
By Human Rights Watch and ACLU, Censored News, February 9, 2025
-- The US government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights by not obtaining free, prior, and informed consent.-- The project shows how US mining laws and the permit process run roughshod over the rights of Indigenous peoples, who find access to the land important for religious and cultural practices. Residents also fear that the mine threatens their rights to health, a healthy environment, and water.
-- The federal government should halt construction at Thacker Pass until it gets the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous peoples and ensure that all current and future mine permit processes comply with international human rights standards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. February 6, 2025 -- The United States government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU said in a report released today. The 18,000-acre mining project is under construction and will extract lithium from one of the world’s largest known deposits.
The 133-page report, “‘The Land of Our People, Forever’: United States Human Rights Violations against the Numu/Nuwu and Newe in the Rush for Lithium,” found that the US Bureau of Land Management permitted the Thacker Pass mine without obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous people—the Numu/Nuwu and Newe, or Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone in English—in violation of their rights to religion, culture, and to their ancestral lands under international human rights law and standards. While there may be others, at least six Tribes have connection to the land at Thacker Pass.
The Circus is Coming to Town: The Bizarre Lawsuit of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society
The Circus is Coming to Town
The trial of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace is scheduled to begin in North Dakota court in Mandan on Feb. 24, 2025. It's been nine years since the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance. Now, Greenpeace International says the pipeline is trying to shut it down with a frivolous $300 million lawsuit.
The Bizarre Lawsuit of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, updated Feb. 16, 2025
Greenpeace says the pipeline company doesn't want the world to know the Water Protectors resistance at Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Meanwhile, Energy Transfer has been slapping Water Protectors with third party subpoenas to extract their information, and fighting Unicorn Riot media for its internal records in the Minnesota Supreme Court.
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