As Energy Fuels Inc. (EFI) threatens to start uranium mining on sacred Indigenous Lands managed by the US Forest Service, just miles from the Grand Canyon, Haul No! has planned a 300 mile awareness and action tour along the Canyon Mine haul route.
A group of Guatemalan men who faced the brutal suppression of their peaceful protest won a small victory Thursday after the Canadian Supreme Court rejected an appeal by major mining firm Tahoe Resources Inc.
During public hearings on May 8 and 9 tribal members and allies replied with a rotund “no” to the EPA’s questions about whether to allow uranium mining and waste disposal in Black Hills underground water tables.
The protesters had stormed the space where the Imperial Metals’ investors were meeting, unveiled a banner depicting the aftermath of the Mount Polley dam collapse disaster in central B.C., and informed those present that Imperials Metals was not welcome on Secwepemc Nation territory.
In the early hours of 21st April 2017, under the banner of Earth First! and Reclaim the Power, our group of five blockaded the UK’s largest opencast coal mine to disrupt the ecologically and socially disastrous mining operations of Miller Argent (South Wales) Ltd.
The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, a federally recognized tribe based in Keshena, Wisconsin, is currently fighting to prevent the approval of a permit to build the Back Forty Mine on the banks of the Menominee River in Lake Township, Michigan.
In this age of Trump, with its’ rising white nationalism and escalating acts of terror against people of color, there can be no ambiguity when it comes to resisting white supremacists in particular and the far Right in general. And the environmental movement is no exception.
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Alberto Toledo participated as an activist and territory defender against mining and wind energy megaprojects, and against the high cost of electricity in the communities of Chahuites and the Eastern Zone of the Isthmus region. He was also part of the Formation of Indigenous Peoples of the Oaxacan Isthmus and belonged to the National Network of Civil Resistance.
Energy Fuels Inc. recently reported that it has completed drilling of it’s uranium mine shaft at Canyon Mine, which is located just miles from the Grand Canyon. The company is now creating a plan based upon results of the drilling before it can resume construction at the site.