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DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@WesternWatershedsProject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>WesternWatershedsProject</span></a></span> Looks like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> is planned for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Recycle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningOnConservationLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningOnConservationLands</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, more nuclear plants and more mining, and probably the minimal amount of environmental remediation -- just enough to make superfund sites commercially viable, I'm sure...</p><p>House passes $895B <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA</span></a> with energy, environment provisions</p><p>The bill excluded bipartisan priorities such as permitting reform but included a host of provisions on nuclear power, energy security and minerals.</p><p>By Andres Picon | 12/12/2024 06:37 AM EST</p><p>"The House passed the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, likely setting up a vote in the Senate in the coming days. </p><p>"The 281-140 vote moved Congress one step closer to approving the annual defense policy bill, which is loaded with provisions focused on energy security, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a>, critical minerals and environmental remediation."</p><p>[May be behind a paywall]:<br><a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/house-passes-895b-ndaa-with-energy-environment-provisions/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eenews.net/articles/house-pass</span><span class="invisible">es-895b-ndaa-with-energy-environment-provisions/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewblesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewblesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoCopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleElectronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleElectronics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LagunaIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LagunaIndustries</span></a> funded by uranium mining operations</p><p>"A court case reveals the history of Laguna Industries, which involved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RaytheonMissiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaytheonMissiles</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> taxes.</p><p>"Laguna Industries, Inc., is a New Mexico corporation wholly owned by the Pueblo of Laguna, an Indian tribe organized under the Indian Reorganization Act, 25 U.S.C. § 476 (1988 Supp. 1992). In the early 1980s, the Pueblo sought to invest capital accumulated from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> operations and to find employment for tribal members who were unemployed because of the decline of the uranium industry." </p><p>"To accomplish this purpose, the Pueblo incorporated Laguna with the goal of obtaining federal contracts from the Department of Defense (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOD</span></a>). To assure DOD that Laguna would be competent to handle these contracts, Laguna contracted with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Raytheon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Raytheon</span></a>, a major defense contractor, for technical, training, and management assistance." </p><p><a href="https://casetext.com/case/laguna-industries-v-tax-rev-dept" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">casetext.com/case/laguna-indus</span><span class="invisible">tries-v-tax-rev-dept</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Interior Sec. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a>'s Pueblo is in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BallisticMissile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BallisticMissile</span></a> Parts Business </p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, Nov. 4, 2024</p><p>LAGUNA PUEBLO, New Mexico -- "Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's tribe's enterprise, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LagunaIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LagunaIndustries</span></a>, manufactures parts for both the ballistic missile, and parts for combat jets, including the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/F15" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>F15</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> recently approved the sale of fifty F-15 jets to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> in a $20 billion deal. </p><p>"The discovery comes after Biden was protested at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GilaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GilaRiver</span></a> Indian Community, and Interior Sec. Haaland was sued by three <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> tribes.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's permit for lithium mining at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a> ceremonial spring south of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a>, and her promotion of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> now digging in to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Massacre site, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> in northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a>, were difficult to understand. Until now.<br> <br>"The lithium mining into the Paiute Massacre Site is for the benefit of big industry electric vehicles, and violates all federal laws that protect religious and historic sites, the water and environment, and endangered species. The mining operation is by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmericas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAmericas</span></a> of Canada.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a> Tribe said Hualapai were never consulted before Haaland granted the drilling permit to the Australian company <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HawkstoneMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HawkstoneMining</span></a>. The Hualapai Tribe filed a federal lawsuit against Haaland.<br> <br>"In a separate federal lawsuit, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TohonoOodham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TohonoOodham</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> Nations have filed a lawsuit against Haaland for the bulldozers now destroying ancient villages sites, burial places and medicine grounds in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanPedroValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanPedroValley</span></a> in Arizona, for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SunZia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunZia</span></a>'s transmission lines for a wind energy project.<br>The United States government is also allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> to operate a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMine</span></a> in the Grand Canyon, now threatening the aquifer and poisoning Havasupai's air and ancestral homeland. The radioactive haul route to Energy Fuels uranium mill in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a> community in Utah endangers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Supai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Supai</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dine</span></a>' (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a>), <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a>. </p><p>"The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, BLM, has a history of rubber stamping environmental impact statements, resulting in devastation."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/interior-sec-haalands-pueblo-is-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11</span><span class="invisible">/interior-sec-haalands-pueblo-is-in.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colombia</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> Demand <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncestralKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncestralKnowledge</span></a> is at Forefront of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP16</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> Convention </p><p>Indigenous communities from different regions of Colombia march in the southwestern city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cali" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cali</span></a> to demand that their ancestral knowledge on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> be taken into account at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNBiodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNBiodiversity</span></a> summit, COP16, which is being held in the city.</p><p>Article by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, Oct. 24, 2024</p><p>"The United States is the only United Nations member state that has not ratified the Convention on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a>. While 197 countries arrive in Cali, Colombia for the COP16 Biodiversity Convention, the U.S. is engaged in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>. </p><p>"In the U.S., the team of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> and Interior Sec. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a> plans to desecrate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a>'s sacred ceremonial water with a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMine</span></a>; is promoting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Massacre Site at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a>; is allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> threatening Havasupai's aquifer and poisoning their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MedicinePlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedicinePlants</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> dust; allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dumping</span></a> radioactive ore and global radioactive waste in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a>'s community; is bulldozing the ancient village sites, burial places and medicine plants of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TohonoOodham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TohonoOodham</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> for a wind energy project; plans a massive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> from San Carlos <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a> sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>; and plans to increase the radioactivity in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pueblo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pueblo</span></a> homelands with increased <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a> production and storage at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a> Labs in northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a>."</p><p>Read more, view photos:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/colombias-indigenous-demand-ancestral.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/colombias-indigenous-demand-ancestral.html</span></a></p><p>Watch video by AFP: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUjFLE1AY4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=AWUjFLE1AY</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaKamwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaKamwe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoOpenPitMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoOpenPitMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMine</span></a> approved despite possible harm to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildflower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildflower</span></a></p><p>Advocates vow to sue, saying plan, crucial to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>’s clean energy agenda, will drive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TiehmsBuckwheat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TiehmsBuckwheat</span></a> to extinction</p><p>Thu 24 Oct 2024 16.36 EDT</p><p>"Environmentalists said Thursday that the mine’s final approval was a politically motivated violation of multiple US laws. The Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement: 'Litigation is now the only way [to] stop the Rhyolite Ridge Mine.'</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Opponents of the project say it’s the latest example of Biden’s administration running roughshod over US protections for native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a>, rare species and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredTribalLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredTribalLands</span></a> in the name of slowing the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and bolstering national security by easing reliance on foreign sources of critical minerals.</p><p>"'We’ve been fighting to save Tiehm’s buckwheat for six years and we’re not giving up now,' Donnelly said.</p><p>"Nevada is home to the only existing lithium mine in the US. Another is currently under construction near the Oregon line 220 miles (354km) north of Reno. That <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmericas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAmericas</span></a> mine at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a>, which was approved in the final days of Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s administration, survived numerous legal challenges from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalists</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> tribes who said it would destroy lands they considered sacred where their ancestors were massacred by US troops in 1865."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/nevada-lithium-mine-endangered-wildflower-tiehms-buckwheat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o</span><span class="invisible">ct/24/nevada-lithium-mine-endangered-wildflower-tiehms-buckwheat</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveRhyoliteRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveRhyoliteRidge</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IoneerLtd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IoneerLtd</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BiodiversityNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityNecessityDefense</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CenterForBiologicalDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CenterForBiologicalDiversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TiehmsBuckwheat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TiehmsBuckwheat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndangeredSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndangeredSpecies</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The Silent Killers in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndianCountry</span></a>: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copper</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Uranium</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutonium</span></a></p><p>Judge finds plutonium plants in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> violated environmental laws</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, Oct. 10, 2024</p><p>"The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a> National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge. </p><p>"Continuing the U.S. legacy of poisoning Indian country with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a>, this comes as the U.S. government is granting leases to foreign <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> companies targeting Native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sacred</span></a> lands and communities. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> is targeting San CarlosApache's sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a> are suing the US Department of Interior to halt lithium mining at their sacred spring Ha'Kamwe'; and the U.S. government is promoting the ongoing digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Massacre Site in northern Nevada for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a>, in violation of all federal laws that protect Native religious and historic sites, the environment and endangered species.</p><p>"Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a>'s aquifer, the haul route endangers everyone in the Four Corners region, and the uranium mill at White Mesa Ute in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> is poisoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utes</span></a>. </p><p>"Interior Sec. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a> said in Farmington, N.M., that Los Alamos Labs would be the leader in the so-called '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenEnergy</span></a> transition' in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCorners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourCorners</span></a> region.</p><p>"More than 500 radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMill</span></a> sites remain on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> that have not been cleaned up by the U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>, which deceives the public by announcing plans and promises to clean up the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> sites. </p><p>"In the current federal lawsuit, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> in efforts to increase plutonium production for nuclear weapons in New Mexico and South Carolina.</p><p>"'South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiNuclear</span></a> proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NNSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NNSA</span></a>), which oversees the nuclear weapons stockpile as part of the U.S. Department of Energy [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOE</span></a>],' reports Source New Mexico. </p><p>"The U.S. is investing billions into restarting the manufacture of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlutoniumPits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlutoniumPits</span></a>, the grapefruit-sized spheres developed for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> weapons. The plutonium is produced from uranium. </p><p>"'The federal government halted its manufacturing program at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RockyFlatsPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockyFlatsPlant</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a> in 1989 after an FBI raid due to safety concerns and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalCrimes</span></a>,' Source New Mexico reports. </p><p>"The U.S. government's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBombTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBombTesting</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> left a trail of cancer and death for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>. The documentary 'Downwind' reveals the truth.</p><p>"'This is a very serious issue and that's why I can't let it go. I can't move on. People say, 'oh, why don't you just let it go?' Because it's killing my family. It's killing my land. It's killing my people. And that will not stand. It's being done in secret. And killing Indians in secret will not stand,' said Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShoshoneNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShoshoneNation</span></a> of Indians. Zabarte is featured in '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Downwind</span></a>' about radiation poisoning from U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a>. </p><p>"Currently, foreign companies -- which receive the profits and find it easy to avoid clean up and responsibility for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> crimes and deaths from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> -- are receiving the mining leases from the U.S. government. The leases are granted by the U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a>, it is the USDA's Forestry Service. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>'s attorneys have joined the lawsuit with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> to devastate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>. </p><p>"Australian and Canadian mining corporations are devastating Native lands and communities, poisoning the water and causing widespread cancer.<br>Rio Tinto, targeting Apaches <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>, is an Australian company which destroyed 46,000 years of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aboriginal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aboriginal</span></a> sacred history in caves in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>. </p><p>"Another Australian mining company is targeting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a>'s sacred site. It is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hawstone</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArizonaLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArizonaLithium</span></a>, in Perth, Australia.<br> <br>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a>, now uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and operating the uranium mill at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a>, is a Canadian company. Another Canadian company is digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Massacre Site. It is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmericas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAmericas</span></a>.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a> judge <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DianeHumetewa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DianeHumetewa</span></a> granted a temporary restraining order to halt the lithium mining at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a>'s sacred spring."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBomb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperfundSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuperfundSites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPitMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPitMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IronAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IronAir</span></a> Batteries Are Here. They May Alter the Future of Energy.</p><p>Battery tech is now entering the Iron Age. </p><p>By Darren Orf<br>Published: Jan 17, 2023</p><p>"Each iron-air battery is about the size of a washer/dryer set and holds 50 iron-air cells, which are then surrounded by an electrolyte (similar to the Duracell in your TV remote). Using a principle called 'reverse rusting,' the cells 'breathe' in air, which transforms the iron into iron oxide (aka rust) and produces energy. To charge it back up, a current reverses the oxidation and turns the cells back into iron.</p><p>"NASA first started experimenting with iron-air batteries back in the late 1960s, and it’s obvious why this next-gen storage system has engineers excited. For one, iron-air batteries solve a few of lithium’s biggest shortcomings right off the bat. As their name suggests, these batteries use primarily <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iron</span></a>, the fourth most abundant element on Earth, and ... well ... air. This tech’s adoption could help curtail the large amounts of water used to mine <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> (not to mention alleviating the potential for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GroundwaterContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GroundwaterContamination</span></a> </p><p>"Secondly, and most importantly, iron-air batteries would be 10 times cheaper, perform better, and last 17 times longer. Right now, these batteries’ primary task would be to bridge the gap when utilities need more power during peak hours, and as green energy eats up a bigger share of the energy pie, they could also crucially store excess energy on sunny days to shore up supply when the clouds roll in. Lithium-ion only provides approximately four hours of storage, whereas iron-air could deliver up to 100 hours—a full four days to bridge those energy gaps.</p><p>"The downsides to iron-air batteries? They’re big and also slow to recharge, which is likely why lithium-ion will remain the battery of choice for electric cars and smartphones. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FormEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FormEnergy</span></a> also says these iron-air batteries will form 'power blocks' where iron-air batteries handle long load times, while lithium-ion batteries take care of spikes in demand."</p><p><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42532492/iron-air-battery-energy-storage/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">popularmechanics.com/science/e</span><span class="invisible">nergy/a42532492/iron-air-battery-energy-storage/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IronAirBatteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IronAirBatteries</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WindPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyStorage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LincolnMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LincolnMaine</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Photos] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRide</span></a> to Peehee Mu'huh</p><p>Nanesootuhina Pookoo Goobakatudu</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, March 28, 2024<br>Photos by Melissa Robles-Dyer</p><p>Peehee Mu'huh (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a>) -- "The Prayer Horse Ride, March 17-26, began in Schurz on its jouney to Peehee Mu’huh, Thacker Pass. The ride is in the traditional, ancestral and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unceded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unceded</span></a> lands of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bannock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bannock</span></a>.</p><p>"'We do this prayer ride to reconnect our way of life,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoshDiniSr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoshDiniSr</span></a>., <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WalkerRiverPaiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WalkerRiverPaiute</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtector</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRider</span></a>.</p><p>"The Prayer Horse Ride is to raise awareness about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McDermittCaldera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McDermittCaldera</span></a>, and also <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PineNutHills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PineNutHills</span></a>, in remembrance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/People (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIW</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIP</span></a>). Riders are revitalizing cultural identity, languages and lifeways in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities."</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/prayer-horse-ride-to-peehee-muhuh.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/prayer-horse-ride-to-peehee-muhuh.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleElectronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleElectronics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalLands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>A look at the bills to amend <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> mineral mining laws in this year’s Legislature</p><p>By Kate Cough<br>February 12, 2023</p><p>"All the way back in the fall of 2021, I called a geologist to ask what he thought about plans by the Canadian junior mining company, Wolfden, to dig for zinc and copper up near Patten, just east of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.</p><p>We talked about the proposal for awhile, and just before we hung up, I asked the question I ask at the end of every interview, one that almost always elicits an unexpected answer and is often the very best way to find new stories: What didn’t we talk about that you want me to know? In this case it definitely didn’t disappoint: after pausing for a moment, the geologist said well, there’s something interesting going on over in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternMaine</span></a>…</p><p>"And thus began my (armchair) adventure into the world of lithium deposits, from the salt flats of South America to the hard-rock mines of western Australia, and, of course, into what is thought to be the world’s richest hard-rock deposit, in the sleepy town of Newry, near the New Hampshire border. A year-and-a-half later the story continues, now with a new player: lawmakers, who have introduced (at last count) ten bills aimed at altering Maine’s mining regulations.</p><p>"The bills (I was only able to review the full text of one, as most are still in the Revisor’s office) run the gamut. One, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR1624" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR1624</span></a>, sponsored by Rep. Maggie O’Neil of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Saco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saco</span></a>, proposes a moratorium on lithium mining, while others (LR 1304, An Act to Promote Sustainable Lithium Mining in Maine, sponsored by Rep. Mike Soboleski of Phillips) are more full-throated in their support of the activity. (It’s worth noting that moratoriums are temporary holds on an activity designed to give regulators time to put in place rules, not permanent bans, as is often thought.)</p><p>"Here’s the full list:</p><p>- LR 1624, Rep. Maggie O’Neil of Saco: An Act to Ensure a Strategic Approach to Maine’s Energy System by Imposing a Moratorium on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a></p><p>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR420" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR420</span></a>, Rep. Scott Landry of Farmington: An Act to Support Extraction of Common Rock-forming and Rare Earth Minerals</p><p>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR1121" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR1121</span></a>, Rep. Lydia Crafts of Newcastle: An Act to Establish a Commission to Study Mining Materials</p><p>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR1732" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR1732</span></a>, Rep. Nina Milliken of Blue Hill: An Act to Eliminate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> Without a Permit</p><p>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR1304" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR1304</span></a>, Rep. Mike Soboleski of Phillips: An Act to Promote Sustainable Lithium Mining in Maine</p><p>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR2272" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR2272</span></a>, Sen. Richard Bennett of Oxford: An Act Regarding <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MetallicMineralMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetallicMineralMining</span></a></p><p>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR2138" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR2138</span></a>, Sen. Craig Hickman of Kennebec: An Act to Protect the People from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenPit</span></a> Quarry Mining</p><p>- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LR930" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LR930</span></a>, Sen. Lisa Keim of Oxford: An Act Concerning Lithium Deposits</p><p>"The reason we’re seeing all of these bills, of course, is that Maine’s 2017 mining law prohibits mining for 'metallic minerals' in open pits larger than three acres. The deposit in Newry is already partially exposed, and numerous experts have said that open pit mining (as opposed to an underground shaft) is the only logical way to remove the rocks, which, they also point out, do not pose the same <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> risks as other types of metal deposits. But all mining poses some risks, and not everyone is on board with the idea of digging <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GiantHoles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiantHoles</span></a> in the earth, even if the end product is an essential part of the transition away from fossil fuels.</p><p>"State regulators have acknowledged the risks involved in mining this deposit are different but say their hands are tied: because 'metallic mineral' does not have a commonly-agreed upon meaning in the scientific community, and because legislators did not specifically exclude lithium from the 2017 rules, the Newry deposit should be considered a metallic mineral. (Meanwhile, the Freemans, the gem-hunters who own the land and identified the deposit, are challenging the DEP’s decision in court.)</p><p>"Of the lawmakers I spoke to, all expressed a desire to support federal efforts to boost domestic production of critical minerals while ensuring the spirit and integrity of Maine’s 2017 mining law remains intact. (In case you were wondering whether the feds are serious, look no further than a $700 million government loan to a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NevadaLithiumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NevadaLithiumMine</span></a> announced earlier this week.)"</p><p><a href="https://themainemonitor.org/maine-lawmakers-look-to-amend-lithium-mining-laws/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">themainemonitor.org/maine-lawm</span><span class="invisible">akers-look-to-amend-lithium-mining-laws/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineLegislature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineLegislature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MainePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoOpenPitMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoOpenPitMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a></p>
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