Shoshone Defenders of Yucca Mountain Appointed to Nuclear Regulatory Advisory Panel

Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte (front) and
Timbisha Shoshone Joe Kennedy appointed, defenders of Yucca Mountain.

Shoshone appointed to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel

By Native Community Action Council
P.O. Box 46301
Las Vegas, NV 89114
www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.org

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

As a tribal community stakeholder group, the Native Community Action Council (NCAC) continues to advocate on behalf of the land the people of the Great Basin. Today, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission appointed two Shoshone to the Yucca Mountain Licensing Support Network Advisory
Review Panel.

NCAC board member, Joe Kennedy Shoshone from Timbisha in Death Valley commented: “The Department of Energy has failed to protect Native Americans leaving us unprotected, if not for the Native Community Action Council intervening in 2008, and now, against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to protect the land and people of the Great Basin.”

Last year the NRC admitted that radiation will be discharge into the groundwater from the proposed Yucca Mountain high level nuclear waste repository currently undergoing licensing. The NRC Staff were
directed to consider disproportionate impact to low income and minority populations such as the Shoshone at Poohabah in Tecopa and Death Valley Shoshone Indian Village at Furnace Creek. Without adequate investigation the NRC found that impacts to Native Americans will be minimal.

The Shoshone experience is as down-winders, victims of testing of WMD’s, and as stakeholders in the siting of the proposed Yucca Mountain high level nuclear waste repository. The DOE cannot meet the requirement of ownership, a “significant legal encumbrances,” disqualifying the site under the NRC regulation, 10 CFR 63 Land Ownership. Yucca Mountain is Indian country defined by the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley and the US cannot prove ownership.

“The proposed repository is Indian country and we believe that the pattern and practice of the US in the siting of Yucca Mountain to be legislative malpractice and institutional racism,” said Ian Zabarte, Secretary of the NCAC.

The NCAC is the only non-federally funded party to the Yucca Mountain proceedings asserting ownership under aboriginal occupancy. Since selection of Yucca Mountain in 1987 by Congress, the DOE has not considered any argument made by the Shoshone that does not support licensing by the NRC.

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Mohawk Nation News ' Shacks, Shovels and Slop Pails'

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Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara want voice in pipeline code, by Lisa DeVille

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Lisa DeVille

Letter the Editor

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By:  Lisa DeVille, President Fort Berthold Protectors of Water and Earth Rights

Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation Tribal Business Council also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes is currently taking public comments on the proposed pipeline code that would create a pipeline authority on Fort Berthold.

The code will give the MHA/TAT Pipeline Authority the authority to issue a permit authorizing construction and installation of pipelines within Fort Berthold boundaries; issue power and authority to regulate abandoned pipelines, spills, leaks, bursts, contamination, and promulgate rules and policies regarding requirements for produced saltwater pipelines.

In whose best interest is it to rush out a pipeline code that does not have policies or rules written? Not the people of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara.

The Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs Oil & Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Program is in its 10th year on Fort Berthold and we have witnessed a high frequency of undetected oil industry pipeline leaks which turn into spills contaminating soils and waters within the West Segment and other segments on Fort Berthold where hydraulic fracking is occurring. The Crestwood Arrow pipeline committed at least five oil pipeline spills which these pipelines were less than five years old. The July 2014 Crestwood Arrow pipeline spilled frack fluid waste for days into an area upstream from the Mandaree community drinking water intake valve. The MHA Nation tribal government relied on the oil industry's estimate of at least 1 million gallons of the fracking waste fluids that pooled and spilled into the Bear Den Bay and into the Missouri River. Three years have passed and this site at Bear Den Bay has never been reclaimed.  Studies have shown that the radiation from the toxic water is concentrating in the soil.  Everything that toxic salt water touches dies.

I encourage the MHA/TAT Pipeline Authority to consider setting up a public meeting to present the code to the public and conduct a public hearing on the proposed draft code in order for MHA/TAT Pipeline Authority to receive questions on this proposed language, provide more information to tribal members, and for MHA/TAT Pipeline Authority to receive and record recommendations from the tribal citizen public for consideration into the formation of the MHA/TAT Pipeline Code processs."

We need strong regulations that are meant to protect our people, land, air, and water; we will be here after the oil is gone but these companies won’t be, but their contamination will be.

Please take the time to review the pipeline safety code, public comments are being taken until November 17, 2017 by 4:30.  Send your comments via mail to MHA/TAT Pipeline Authority Director, Travis Hallam Email: thallam@mhanation.com

Read more by Lisa DeVille: Methane Waste Disposal Rule Targeted

http://www.worc.org/methane-waste-prevention-rule-supported/

Video song by Hopi Ed Kabotie 'You can't be brown in this town' Flagstaff, Arizona

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Listen below to the video, great lyrics about 'being brown' in Flagstaff, Arizona

Recorded live by Christine Prat at Flagstaff, Arizona 2017

https://vimeo.com/241778560

Artist Bio

My name is Ed Kabotie. I am from the Hopi village of Shungopavi and the Tewa village of Khap'o Owinge (Santa Clara Pueblo, NM). My culture is the greatest inspiration of my music. By mixing genres, languages, and instrumentation, I seek to express the virtues, values, and vices of my people. Outside of my culture, the musical groups that I find most inspiring are the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley & the Wailers, & Metallica. \m/ I grew up playing drums in rock & metal bands, but studied the guitar as a songwriting instrument. I currently play trap set drums for Summit Dub Squad (a Reggae/Hip-hop band based in Flagstaff, AZ), vocals & guitar for Twin Rivers, (a Nu-Native band based out of Santa Fe, NM), and vocals & guitar for Los Coyotes (a Rock/Reggae trio based in Flagstaff). My "One Man Jam" project is featured on this page. The project incorporates looping various instruments to create a full band sound. Via 'loopstation', I can layer drums, guitar, bass, flute, harmonica, vocals, etc. in one performance! Check out the videos for a better understanding of how it works. Blessings!

Song copyright Ed Kabotie
Video copyright Christine Prat
No reuse without permission
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GERMANY Police on Horseback Charge into Earth Defenders at Coal Shutdown COP23

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ENDE GELÄNDE – CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! PHOTOS

Coal shutdown before COP23 began in Germany, on Nov. 5, 2017

More photos, article at Censored News https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/11/pacific-climate-warriors-lead-way-coal.html

Israel's Black Cube spies hired to suppress news articles, as Israel gains U.S. border contracts

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O'odham opposed Trump's border wall in March, on O'odham land at the so-called border. Photo Ofelia Rivas, O'odham

Israel's Black Cube spies hired to suppress news articles, as Israel gains U.S. border contracts

Black Cube spies were hired to halt news stories, at the same time that Israeli companies are receiving U.S. border contracts -- including Elbit Systems' contract for spy towers on sacred land of the Tohono O'odham Nation -- and Trump's border wall prototype.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Israeli intelligence 'Black Cube,' is tracking journalists and trying to halt news articles in the U.S., writes Julian Assange on Twitter today, with a link to The New Yorker magazine's new exposures.
It is important to those who live on the US Mexico border, including the Tohono O'odham Nation, who are now facing the Apartheid Israeli contractors hired to build the spy towers by Homeland Security during the Obama Administration.
Now, Trump wants an Israeli firm to build his border wall.
"An Israeli company, Elta North America, (a subsidiary of the Israel Aerospace Industry) was one of eight companies awarded a massive sum to produce a prototype for the wall that the U.S. intends to build along the U.S.-Mexico border," Telesur reports.
Israel's contracts from U.S. Homeland Security, at the United States southern border, including the spy towers on sovereign Tohono O'odham land, are one of the most censored articles in the U.S. by the media.The exposures of Israeli intelligence Black Cube spies posing as friends, and attempting to halt news stories, was exposed by Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker.
Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He hired private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations, The New Yorker reports.
"One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press."
Assange said today, "Weinstein hired ex-Mossad agents at Israeli intelligence company 'Black Cube' to infiltrate accusers & quash stories,"
Censored News continues to expose breaking news from the Tohono O'odham border, where U.S. contracts are being awarded to Israeli companies engaged in Apartheid in Palesine.

Israel’s Elbit Systems plans spy towers on sacred land at the border, where O'odham ancestors are buried.
Ofelia Rivas, O"odham, exposed Elbit Systems plans on Tohono O'odham land, and her home community's fight against the Israeli spy towers. Elbit is responsible for the genocidal security surrounding Palestine, and drones globally.
The Gu-Vo District opposed this proposal from the beginning, and the United States ruled it could care less.
Gu-Vo, in the western most district of the Tohono O'odham Nation, told the U.S., prior to the assessment, "The Gu-Vo District opposes these proposed tower sites to protect cultural sites on the holy mountain now called the Ajo Mountain Range. The mountain holds human remains of our people and also places of our cultural practices (medicine bundles) home and home of the ceremonial deer and bighorn sheep and mountain tortoises that are protected under the Endangered Species Act."
"The United States government military forces, the border patrol, have not been forthcoming with impact information, such as health effects and have deliberately misinformed the people regarding the immediate environmental impacts such as the roads they will build on the mountain and installation of electrical power lines to the sites as well as that these proposed tower sites will have a 25-year or longer impact on the mountain, the animal and plant life and the O'odham lives."
"The Gu-Vo District communities landscape have already been greatly impacted by numerous unauthorized roads and destruction of our mountains and hills of great significance to the O'odham way of life. Our future generations will face more restriction to live on our original lands as our rights as original Indigenous peoples continue to deteriorate."
"These U.S. proposed towers also are not on the border but in our communities and on the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation reiterating discrimination and deliberate attack on the O'odham," said Gu-Vo District.
Rivas, O'odham living on the border and founder of O'odham VOICE Against the Wall, describes the him'dag, way of life. "The O’odham way of life is based on the land that has held the remains of our ancestors since the creation of this world. The O’odham did not migrate from anywhere according to our oral history. Our creation tellings record our history and teach the O’odham principles of life. The survival of O’odham today is based in our him’dag." Read more at Ofelia Rivas' website http://tiamatpublications.com/

Article copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News
Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas

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The New Yorker: Harvey Weinsteins Army of Spies
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