Navajos Say Thanks But No Thanks to Uranium Mining. By Kari Lydersen, WashPost, April 6, 2008. "Twenty years after uranium mining ceased in New Mexico amid plummeting prices... global warming and the soaring cost of oil are renewing interest... But the deposits are largely in and around Navajo land, and the industry's poor record on health and safety as it extracted tons of the ore in past decades has soured many Navajos on uranium mining. In 2005, the Navajo Nation banned uranium mining... on its land, and thousands of tribe members are receiving or seeking federal compensation for... health effects of past... exposure."
2008-04-07
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