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March 14, 2024
March 13, 2024
SunZia 'Green' Energy Project Threatens Sacred Places of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache
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| San Pedro River photo Robin Silver |
Another so-called 'green energy' project threatens the sacred places of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache
Update: The Tohono O'odham Nation and San Carlos Apache Nations filed for a restraining order against Interior Sec. Deb Haaland, Interior Dept., and BLM, on March 13 in Tucson federal court. Haaland's bulldozers are now tearing through sacred places in the San Pedro Valley for a transmission line for another fake green energy project destroying sacred places.
TUCSON -- A so-called 'green' energy project plans to plow through Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache sacred and historical places in the San Pedro Valley in Arizona. The transmission line of 'renewable energy' from wind farms in central New Mexico would cut through Arizona and continue on to California. The SunZia transmission line is now being fought in federal court.
O'odham Urgent Call to Action: Stop SunZia Bulldozers Threatening O'odham Cultural Area and San Pedro River
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| SunZia bulldozing San Pedro Valley for transmission line |
Update: Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations filed for an injunction on Wednesday:
“Every single one of us has a history to this place. We’ve driven through there, we have connections, we’ve prayed, you know, all that matters. Our human lives matter,” said Vernelda Grant with the San Carlos Apache Tribe.
March 12, 2024
Indigenous Confront U.S. on Uranium Exploitation, at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing in D.C.
INDIGENOUS LEADERS CONFRONT U.S. GOVERNMENT ON ITS URANIUM EXPLOITATION POLICIES AT INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HEARING IN D.C.
Diné (Navajo), Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Oglala Lakota, and Northern Arapaho Tribal Members Give Powerful & Moving Testimonies
on How the NRC, EPA and BIA Violate Indigenous
Communities’ Human Rights
By New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Censored News, March 12, 2024
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico —Members of five different Native American tribes provided moving and powerful testimony on the devastating health, environmental and cultural impacts from the uranium industry during a thematic hearing convened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.
The thematic hearing, “Impacts of Uranium Exploitation on the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United States,” was held at the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., and included testimony from Edith Hood and Teracita Keyanna, Diné (Navajo) tribal members from the Red Water Pond Road Community Association (New Mexico); Anferny Badback and Yolanda Badback, Ute Mountain Ute tribal members from White Mesa Concerned Community (Utah); Carletta Tilousi of the Havasupai Tribal Government (Arizona); Big Wind Carpenter of the Northern Arapaho Tribe (Wyoming); and Tonia Stands (Oglala Lakota), Buffalo Magpie Organizing (South Dakota). Eric Jantz, Legal Director at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, also provided testimony as legal counsel.
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