Protesters Rally Against Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine in Arizona, Block Hauling Truck, by Unicorn Riot

Protesters Rally Against Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine in Arizona, Block Hauling Truck

By Unicorn Riot

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HAVASUPAI TERRITORY -- On the third day of an anti-uranium summit in northern Arizona, participants organized a rally to highlight the risks posed by uranium mining. On a two-lane highway near the mine, about 150 people gathered on May 17 to wave signs and inform people, most of whom were on their way to Grand Canyon National Park which is just a few miles up the road, about uranium mining in the area.

Part way through the rally, protesters identified a semi-truck operated by Hammon Trucking, a company contracted by Energy Fuels to haul uranium ore from the mine to the Energy Fuels mill outside Blanding, UT.

Protesters launched a spontaneous blockade of the truck, surrounding it and demanding that it stop its travel toward what protesters assumed was the mine. Rallygoers chanted, while some vandalized the rig with anti-uranium messages. Others measured the radioactivity of the trailer used to carry uranium ore.

After a standoff with police, the crowd moved to a nearby dirt road that leads to Red Butte. Protesters had another short confrontation with local, state, and national law enforcement officers. The crowd dispersed without arrests, and some left rocks in the road to block the path for vehicles who might follow.

More than confronting police and vandalizing a truck, the rally was a cry for people to pay attention to what is happening at Pinyon Plain Mine.

In 2024, Energy Fuels began actively mining a dormant claim near Tusayan, AZ. The mine had sat largely inactive since the 1980s, but the company retained the rights to use it. When energy prices began to climb and global politics made sourcing domestic uranium more appealing, the company reinvigorated its efforts to extract uranium from Pinyon Plain to be sold to the U.S. gov't.

While the current operation is new, uranium mining has long been present in the area and Dineh, Havasupai and Hopi and Ute Indigenous communities have suffered the consequences for decades.

Red Butte sits between the Navajo Nation and the Havasupai reservation. Regarded as the birthplace of the Havasupai people, it’s held as a sacred site.

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Radioactive Trucks by Censored News

Radioactive trucks: Don't be fooled, even when they are empty these radioactive trucks show radiation from their uranium ore loads. These trucks are traveling from Energy Fuels uranium mine in the Grand Canyon, through Havasupai land; Flagstaff; Navajo Nation, Hopi Nation, and endangering the White Mesa Ute at the radioactive dump in Utah.

Unicorn Riot has just produced videos and articles on recent actions to shut them down.

Recently, Unicorn Riot fought all the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court to prevent another company, Energy Transfer, from seizing their personal files from Standing Rock, when they provided frontline coverage of water protectors during 2016 -- 2017.

The owners of Dakota Access Pipeline wanted their files for the prosecution of water protectors in the case of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace, in the North Dakota district court case.

Watch the video and real resistance to Energy Fuels, now poisoning Havasupai medicine plants with its radioactive dust, endangering everyone on the haul route, and endangering Ute at the radioactive dump in Utah. https://unicornriot.ninja/media/protesters-rally-against-pinyon-plain-uranium-mine-block-hauling-truck

Shutting down Energy Fuels on Havasupai land in the Grand Canyon. Image by Unicorn Riot from video