On Tuesday the company that owns a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon began hauling ore through the Navajo Nation, which has outlawed transporting the mineral through its lands. Navajo President Buu Nygren has vowed to stop any future shipments.

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On Tuesday, Energy Fuels Resources, the company that owns a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, began hauling ore to a mill in southern Utah.

In a statement, the company said the shipments are safe, have low levels of radiation and have been permitted by state and federal regulators.

But the transport route includes a large swath of the Navajo Nation, which opposes the mine and has outlawed uranium hauling through its lands.

Navajo President Buu Nygren quickly sent out Navajo police in an effort to turn the trucks back, but the shipments eventually passed through the reservation on highways regulated by state agencies.

The president has vowed to stop any future uranium hauling and spoke with KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius about the tribe’s response.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    71·
    3 months ago

    While nuclear power can be perfectly safe from start to finish… The Navajo nation is perfectly free and correct to oppose what ever they want and enforce what laws they have passed.

    I just hope it doesn’t devolve in to arresting truck drivers and standoffs with the feds, because we all should realize the feds WILL defend the business over people. Every. Time.

    • DeadWorld@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      This seems like the government allowing the corperation to offload any potential hazard on a people who simply don’t deserve to be so brazenly sacrificed at the alter of indifference

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yea. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be the first time native americans got that treatment. … or the second. … or third, or fourth or fifth…

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Do … do you even know in which country the Navajo nation resides? Do you know the history of that country toward natives? Your comment makes you sound very, very ignorant.