Interior Oil and Gas Sale of Bears Ears Area Land on March 20, 2018

(Above) Maps, documents, parcels for oil and gas lease sale on March 20, 2018
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite.do?methodName=dispatchToPatternPage&currentPageId=122746

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke posted this photo of himself when he toured Bears Ears on May 11, 2017. Now, Interior e-mails reveal the land seized from Bears Ears was for the benefit of oil, gas, coal and uranium corporations, and sports hunters. Sports hunters made contact with Zinke by way of hunting with Donald Trump, Jr., in Utah.

Interior halts oil and gas sale at gateway to Yellowstone -- but still plans sale around Bears Ears boundary on March 20, 2018 unless it is halted

By Brenda Norrell
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The Interior Department has halted an oil and gas sale at the gateway to Yellowstone, after an outcry, but still plans to sell leases for oil and gas around Bears Ears in southeastern Utah on March 20.
The land includes pristine areas along the Green River, San Juan River and Moab.
"U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said on Monday he has postponed a second federal oil and gas lease sale planned for March in less than a week in response to local opposition to the possibility of drilling near national parks and monuments," Reuters reports.

"Zinke said the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will remove 17,300 acres out of the planned March 13 sale of 63,496 acres of federal land for oil and gas leases near the tourist city of Livingston, Montana, which is a gateway to the Yellowstone National Park."

"In southeastern Utah, local environmental and archaeological groups have protested a March 20 auction of around 57,000 acres near the former boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument - reduced by 85 percent last year by President Donald Trump - that is known to contain significant cultural sites." This sale is still scheduled.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1GH36R?__twitter_impression=true

More details about the March 20, 2018 lease sale near Bears Ears boundaries -- areas of Moab, Green River, San Juan River, Utah:
https://suwa.org/conservation-groups-challenge-trump-administrations-decision-threaten-national-monuments-irreplaceable-cultural-resources-oil-gas-leasing-development/

Interior documents -- "No significant impact" with maps, data, parcels for oil and gas sale on March 20, 2018:
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite.do?methodName=dispatchToPatternPage&currentPageId=122746

Anasazi Site Toured by Zinke in Bears Ears area Targeted for Exploitation and Desecration 

The New York Times has gained access to 20,000 e-mails of the Interior, revealing that Bears Ears land was seized for the benefit of oil, gas, coal and uranium corporations, and sports hunters. The head of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife had a private dinner with Zinke in Utah, after going hunting with Donald Trump, Jr. Below is a photo posted by the Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. Read more at Censored News about the exploitation of Bears Ears: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/03/interior-e-mails-reveal-interior.html

Read more: Zinke says Interior should partner with oil companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-03-06/zinke-says-interior-should-be-a-partner-with-oil-companies

Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk Eyes Wide Shut'

MOHAWK EYES WIDE SHUT

Posted on March 13, 2018

Please post & distribute.

MNN. March 12, 2018. Who are you listening to? The Mohawk Council of Kahnawá:ke Inc. [MCK Inc.] is a private corporation. Their bar lawyers help them set up the MCK Inc. municipality of Kahnawake.

MCK Inc. is a Government of Canada committee that provides administrative and operation services to the native people who own everything. These councils are in effect Canadian embassies representing foreign armed [called Peacekeepers] occupiers within our territories to steal our possessions and keep control over us. These puppets are elected by a small minority of followers who get jobs from the MCK Inc. committee. The MCK privately incorporated themselves and are making private laws and rules enforced by their goons. MCK Inc. has fraudulently taken possession of our land and assets without our permission.

Read article at Mohawk Nation News

http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/03/13/mohawk-eyes-wide-shut/

COAST SALISH: 10,000 March to Protect the Inlet -- Vancouver B.C.

Protect the water, land, and climate
#ProtecttheInlet

On March 10th Coast Salish spiritual leaders and members launched an ambitious project in Metro Vancouver to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline. They raised a traditional Coast Salish Watch House near the pipeline route which will act as a base for resistance to the project. 10,000 people in Metro Vancouver marched in solidarity.

Photos by Coast Protectors

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Thousands of people walking peacefully and determinedly behind Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and Indigenous leaders from across Turtle Island to make our collective NO to Kinder Morgan's risky pipeline and tanker project heard across the country, and beyond.

Support the Watch House | Kwekwecnewtxw : www.ProtectTheInlet.ca

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Watch House Going Up

Press Conference Video Below:

Thousands of marchers in British Columbia say no to Trans Mountain pipeline

By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter
BURNABY, British Columbia — Thousands of opponents of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil-pipeline expansion filled the streets of metro Vancouver on Saturday in the biggest pushback yet against the $7.3 billion project.

Planned along the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, the expansion already approved by the federal government of Canada is intended to nearly triple the volume of diluted bitumen oil flowing from Alberta to Burnaby in British Columbia to slake overseas markets’ thirst for oil. But the project has hit a buzz saw of opposition from First Nations and tribes on both sides of the border, the province of British Columbia and municipalities from Burnaby to Vancouver to Victoria.

Read article:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/thousands-of-marchers-in-british-columbia-say-no-to-trans-mountain-pipeline/

.Below: The Province in B.C.

UTE MOUNTAIN -- Struggle against White Mesa Uranium Mill in Southeast Utah

Watch video interview below:

Yolanda Badback, Ute, about the White Mesa uranium Mill, l'usine de traitement d'uranium de Blanding, Utah from Christine Prat on Vimeo.

STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WHITE MESA URANIUM MILL, ON UTE MOUNTAIN, SOUTH UTAH

Article, video and photos by Christine Prat
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In French at:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=4467

The Ute community of Ute Mountain has been struggling for years against a uranium processing mill nearby, the Energy Fuels White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah.

They are of course supporting – and are supported by - the struggle of Haul No!, which opposes plans to operate a uranium mine, Canyon Mine, situated near the Grand Canyon National Park and at the foot of Red Butte, which is sacred for the Havasupai. The transport should go through the Navajo Nation, so that Haul No! was mainly initiated by Diné people. The Ute of Ute Mountain do not wish to have more uranium ore brought to the mill. But they mainly want the mill to close, as it has already brought diseases and spoiled the water in their community for years.

The mill was built in 1979 and started its operations in 1980. It was supposed to process uranium from the region, which is, according to the Energy Fuels site, "Central to the highest-grade uranium mines and deposits in the United States…" However, according to the Grand Canyon Trust site, "Built in 1979 to process uranium ore from the Colorado Plateau, the mill has been in the business of importing radioactive waste called "alternate feed material" since 1987. While Energy Fuels recovers and sells some uranium and vanadium from the waste, their primary source of revenue is the fees associated with storing the toxic materials in the mill's tailings impoundments..."

On September 16^th, 2017, I met Yolanda Bad Back, Ute of Ute Mountain, at a conference organized by Uplift, an initiative from youth of the Colorado Plateau, supported by the Grand Canyon Trust. What Yolanda said in the interview is unfortunately not outdated, as the license of the mill has been renewed by DEQ-Utah, on February 16, 2018. (See PDF of the letter from DEQ to Energy Fuels on https://documents.deq.utah.gov/waste-management-and-radiation-control/facilities/energy-fuels-white-mesa/DRC-2018-001587.pdf ). On February 27, 2018, Reuters published an article stating that "Energy Fuels wins approval to expand uranium, vanadium mines in Utah" ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-uranium/energy-fuels-wins-approval-to-expand-uranium-vanadium-mines-in-utah-idUSKCN1GB2YK ). It mentions other sites than White Mesa, thus more people will be subjected to uranium impacts. Grand Canyon Trust also published an article by Aaron Paul, Staff Attorney, on October 09 2017 ( https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/white-mesa-utah-loses-uranium-mill-waste-lawsuit ), announcing that they had lost their case against Energy Fuels, after three-and-half years struggling: in 2012, Energy Fuels took the mill over from Denison Mines, and then announced that waste pits were emitting more radon gas than regulations allowed. At first, people, including Grand Canyon Trust, thought that Energy Fuels would thus clean those pits. They did not. Thus, Grand Canyon Trust prosecuted them. In September 2017, they lost.

Video Yolanda (Uplift, September 16th 2017)

https://vimeo.com/259478470

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Quoted or used info:

Energy Fuels site:http://www.energyfuels.com/project/white-mesa-mill/

The White Mesa Mill is the only fully-licensed and operating conventional uranium mill in the United States.

Central to the highest-grade uranium mines and deposits in the United States

Grand Canyon Trust:

https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/white-mesa-uranium-mill

Built in 1979 to process uranium ore from the Colorado Plateau, the mill has been in the business of importing radioactive waste called "alternate feed material" since 1987. While Energy Fuels recovers and sells some uranium and vanadium from the waste, their primary source of revenue is the fees associated with storing the toxic materials in the mill's tailings impoundments – large liquid-covered and solid waste pits that are up to 71 acres in size.

- White Mesa, Utah Loses to Uranium-Mill Waste in Court

October 09 2017, by Aaron Paul, Staff Attorney

https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/white-mesa-utah-loses-uranium-mill-waste-lawsuit

"After operating with an expired license for a decade, White Mesa uranium mill may get new permits" Salt Lake Tribune, by Emma Penrod, June 8, 2017

    http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5374075&itype=CMSID

According to DEQ Utah site, license renewed on February 16, 2018

https://documents.deq.utah.gov/waste-management-and-radiation-control/facilities/energy-fuels-white-mesa/DRC-2018-001587.pdf

Reuters, February 27, 2018 Energy Fuels wins approval to expand uranium mines in Utah

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-uranium/energy-fuels-wins-approval-to-expand-uranium-vanadium-mines-in-utah-idUSKCN1GB2YK 

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