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Navajo Council Delegate Russell Begaye questions Resources & Development Committee’s approval of uranium bill

ANNOUNCEMENTS: ROSE FASTHORSE NOFCHISSEY Community educators have started a new community school that is founded on hands-on Navajo emersion teachings. This is Shiprock’s first Navajo emersion school and the first one on the New Mexico side of the Navajo Reservation. SHIPROCK CHAPTER VICE PRESIDENT TOMMIE YAZZIE The first order of business is a report from […]

Navajo Council’s Resources & Development Committee Votes Unanimously to Outrun Navajo Uranium Ban

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, Here is a very good story about the Resource & Development Committee’s debate and approval of RDC member Delegate Leonard Tsosoie’s Legislation 0373: An Action Relating To Resources And Development; Acknowledging The Right-Of-Way And Surface Use By Uranium Resources, Inc., Of Its Church Rock Properties Licensed By The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission License […]

STEALTH BILL UNDERMINES NAVAJO URANIUM BAN BY ALLOWING ISL ‘DEMONSTRATION’ IN CHURCHROCK SCHEDULED FOR VOTE MONDAY

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I’m headed to Chilchinbeto, Ariz., for Navajo Council Resources & Development Committee meeting on proposed legislation to allow Uranium Resources, Inc., to set up an In-Situ Uranium Demonstration Project at Church Rock, N.M., which is on the Navajo Reservation and the site of the largest uranium waste spill where clean up is incomplete. […]

Eastern Navajo Land Commission Opposes Uranium Legislation

The Eastern Navajo Land Commission opposes the Navajo Council’s Resources and Development Committee Legislation 0373-13, which would allow Uranium Resources, Inc., to establish an In-Situ Uranium Mining Demonstration Project near Church Rock, N.M., and the creation of a Sub-Committee to draft an agreement to approve the transportation of uranium/hazardous materials by URI. The ENLC approved […]

Moblize for the Children! Say no to Uranium & Navajo Transitional Energy Company!

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I have a message from a very good fren/sister, Eloise Brown-Dixon, who has stood up against coal mining since former Navajo Nation President Shirley and then Vice President Ben Shelly tried to establish a coal-fire generating station on Burnham, N.M., which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Reservation and near the […]

Uranium Bill on Navajo Council Resources & Development Committee Dec. 23 agenda

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, The Navajo Council’s Resources & Development Committee has called a SPECIAL meeting on Monday, Dec. 23, to address RDC member Delegate Leonard Tsosie’s proposed legislation 0373-13 which allow Uranium Resources Inc. to set up a Demonstration In-Situ Uranium Mining Project in Church Rock, N.M. and to create a RDC Sub-Committee of two RDC […]

Proposed Navajo legislation: Demonstration in-situ Uranium project at Church Rock, NM

The language of this proposed Navajo Council’s Resources & Development Committee legislation to approve a Demonstration Project for In-Situ Uranium mining at Church Rock, N.M., by URI (Uranium Resources Inc.) and to create a RDC Subcommittee of two RDC members to work with the Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources […]

“Death Map” of where community pple died from former uranium mining/milling

Here at International Film Festival at Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz. Tomorrow is last day of festival, which is being live streamed at: www.ustream.tv/channel/iuff-4you PETCCHE GILBERT, ACOMA, MULTICULTURAL ALLIANCE FOR SAFE ENVIRONMENT The cleanup of uranium mining/milling/waste is a political issue because cities want the uranium for to meet economic needs. And so […]