Comments on: Navajos On Warpath Over Uranium Mining On Tribal Lands

By: Horsewoman

Horsewoman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:42:53 +0000

Horsewoman says: Yeah, and the people (they know who they are), that are forcing the Dene into forced relocation, will by the grace of God be destroyed! How? They will get cancer, they will die from alcoholism, they will commit suicide, their family members will get so sick that even their WHITE MEDICINE will NOT save them! That is MY prophecy upon those that relocate them and DESTROY them anymore! Mark my WORD! Says the LORD. God’s WRATH will be over ALL their HEADS and “they” will NOT be able to escape His wrath! DEATH to the evil doers and evil people that continue to be GREEDY and continue to relocate the Dene and continue to RAPE their land and destroy God’s animal kingdom, plant kingdom, and children! Psalms Chapter 21 Verse 7: The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do justice; Verse 12: God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness…….

By: Cole

Cole — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:08:21 +0000

You mention the Dene (Navajo) lack of fighting the injustices perpetrated against them. I don’t think that’s a fair assessment. The forced relocation of Dene people, and the uranium mining on their lands dates back to at least the 1970’s. Their lawsuits are most typically thrown out of court. These people are constantly marginalized. The mass media are not allowed to report on these issues.

The first forced relocation resulted in more than 10,000 Dene people being relocated with more than one-third ending up dead due to suicide, cancers, alcoholism, etc. So there is now another forced relocation underway.

By: Horsewoman

Horsewoman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:23:19 +0000

I knew it! The NRC and Hydro Resources are sleeping in bed together! And, Amerika continues to sleep with her eyes closed while she continues to make nuclear weapons. We know it! Our federal government cannot keep the people’s eyes blinded anymore! We are AWAKE! I will do WARRIOR PRAYING from April 20th til May 12th, that the GREAT SPIRIT is more POWERFUL and will bring down to it’s knees the NRC, and Hydro Resources Company. Also, that the GREAT SPIRIT will be over the panel of federal judges to have compassion for the Navajo Nation! Remember the fall of the Roman Empire? God has the POWER to bring DOWN corrupt nations! In the history of nations, all evil nations have been DESTROYED by God! Don’t forget it…….(power to the people!)

By: igmuska

igmuska — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:41:42 +0000

The reason that nuclear energy got a foothold to begin with is that it was stolen from Native lands as in the Navajo’s case. They were never told that it was dangerous, that mining was safe and they’d have a job forever.

Now that the first uranium boom went bust, leaving a toxic legacy for indigenous nations throughout the world, with the corresponding lamentations, the sorrow of losing loved ones to cancer and other creepy diseases.

Now we know what it is really worth and that in so knowing it will never be a cheap source of energy. This is what we mean; your speculation will not be our suffering and misery.

Try stealing our uranium again, with more lies. Look at your world, there is no electricity shortage, there is no need for nuclear energy. Nuclear energy will not stop climate change, nor will it decrease the greenhouse effect.

By: Jim47

Jim47 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:47:21 +0000

Agreed, Max 🙂 What’s so idiotic is that there are proven methods of nuclear waste disposal which, while expensive, will be as close to a 100% guarantee of clean and safe as Humans can devise, but they are opposed because they are either “new and unproven” (the eco-extremist bloc) or “too expensive and difficult and consumers won’t put up with that” (the energy industry and our government). Wish both sides would shut up with all the rhetoric and just ask us what we consumers are willing to pay for. IMHO, both sides are wrong. Before the Clean Air and Clean Waters acts of the 1960s, industry said that they were too expensive and the consumers would never put up with the cost and inconvenience. I don’t hear consumers complaining; they get very vocal, though, when someone breaks those laws or tries to weaken them. And eco-extremists need to learn that no one but themselves is going to follow the radical course; no rational person, no matter how much they agree with them in principle, is really going to be comfortable with radical methods. There is always a middle ground, one that can be supported by science and engineering, that won’t make the extremes happy. But as the extremes are almost always in the minority, the rest of us should be willing and able to tell them to shove off. Perhaps the Navajo will be the Rosa Parks of nuclear energy. For nuclear energy production to be accepted as part of the solution to our petroleum dependence problem, we definitely need to take care of the before and after. We are in complete agreement here 🙂

By: RuthClaire Weintraub

RuthClaire Weintraub — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:40:46 +0000

When I lived and worked in Crownpoint some years ago, a fellow who was out behind the school, surveying for a company that wanted to mine uranium, told me the company had to do that drilling because the City of Los Angeles needs power.

Tommyrot. There’s enough sun on the State of NY in one day to power the entire State for a year. NM has 364 days of sunshine in a year, even at low altitude, and Crownpoint’s elevation is 6000 feet: enough sun to power almost anything.

Navajo people don’t need to be exploited, they don’t need to have their land and their resources marauded by greedy corporate oligarchs.

This country is so technologically sophisticated that no-one in it can figure out how not to exploit nuclear power?

By: Max

Max — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:10:45 +0000

Jim47….

Thanks for the great comment! For the record, I agree that a nuclear power station is the ultimate in clean power generation. It’s the before and after that I care about.

I hope the Navajos will set a precedent for other tribes whose lands have been exploited and spoiled.

By: Frank Lichnovsky

Frank Lichnovsky — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:32:34 +0000

You are not correct. The Churchrock deposit is on private minerals and surface owned by URI. And no matter what the Navajo president thinks a person or a corpration has the right to mine on their own land.

By: Jim47

Jim47 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:01:54 +0000

Max, you’re wrong about nuclear power (my own position on this has been stated in here enough that I shouldn’t need to elaborate), but that’s not the point here. The Navajo are doing the right thing, and it’s more than high time that they stand up and declare their lands off-limits to uranium mining. I say, “Bravo!” We can agree to disagree about nuclear power generation; we definitely agree on the right of Native Americans to object when the very land which the U.S. Government forced them onto is threatened by that self-same government. I just hope that the courts agree, and do it swiftly and decisively.