Sentences with phrase «past uranium mining»

Representative Henry Waxman (CA), Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held a hearing to discuss the legacy issues related to past uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.

Also included in this issue are some statements by Navajo leaders — grassroots and governmental — about the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act and about studies currently being conducted surrounding the health effects of past uranium mining.

Those studies were requested by Church Rock Chapter two years ago to determine if past uranium mining in the area had contaminated the lands on which 900 to 1,000 single - family homes will be built.

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For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

And from Canada came a variety of First Nations representatives, discussing past and current work to deal with the aftermath of uranium mining on their lands.

Observations Regarding Past and Potential Future Mining and Its Impacts At Bokan Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska: Potential Rare Earth Element Mining and Uranium Mine Remediation.

Volume 1; Number 1 — The Committment Continues... Dede Feldman In this issue: From the President; For 25 Years, The Workbook; Call to the Land, the Past, the Soul; Molycorp Clean - up Far from Over; Border Plan for Sustainability; Uranium Mining on Eastern Navajo; Black Ranch Driveway to Sprawl; Los Alamos Fire; Book Reviews

Season's «Greetings» — President Clinton, all 88 delegates to the Navajo Nation Council, and two top - ranking officers of a Dallas - based uranium mining company received hundreds of brightly colored postcards through the mail this past holiday season.

In a series of separate public hearings this fall, members of Congress and New Mexico state legislators heard testimonies from the full range of people who have something to say about uranium mining — community members aggrieved by six decades of mining impacts, industry officials trumpeting new jobs from renewed uranium activity, and government regulators trying to figure out how to address both the past uranium legacy and future uranium developments.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

Against this background, working with Navajo groups and communities to stop new mining and continuing to assess and document the health and environmental effects of past uranium development are the principal focuses of UIAP work.

Saskatchewan's economy is «humming along» with oil and gas activity, uranium and potash mining and agriculture, says the company, but out - migration to Alberta has increased in the past year.