Discuss: Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path
12 comments
1 Tom Whitesell on Jan 22, 2009
2 roger pinckney on Jan 22, 2009
Winona—
Remembering the ricing and the articles I did about it in the Detroit Lakes Tribune years ago.
Now we are both writing for Orion.
You saw Turtle Moon?
Wishing you the best.
3 Nate Courtney on Jan 23, 2009
Yet another chapter in the story of the world’s concern for the future of the business over the future of the planet, our home. Why is it we cannot take a cue from Native American culture and respect the land?
4 Marcus Atkinson on Jan 23, 2009
Thanks Winona, especially for your part on Australia.. I am from Australia and have been very involved in the struggle here, but also getting the word out Internationally as many people are unaware of the nuclear connection in Australia. We meet you briefly at the beggining of the Shellmound walk in C.A last year.. Hope all is well and if you are planning another trip to Australia let us know….
Peace & Solidarity
Marcus
5 Susan Willis on Jan 24, 2009
Ms. Laduke, I greatly admire your voice and your work. Thank you!
Thank you, Tom Whitesell, for pointing us to EPAW. This is a movement that needs more attention—and quickly.
I would like to point to a serious discussion of nuclear energy in “The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble” by David Fleming, which can be downloaded from:
/www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/nuclear/Nuclear.pdf
We (people in industrialized,
“developed” nations) are becoming increasingly desperate, grasping at any and all technologies to allow us to preserve our current way of life. We ignore or fail to calculate the true costs and downstream consequences of these technologies until much money has been spent and harm done.
I agree with Mr. Whitesell that we need to re-examine our expectations and, further, begin changing our lives accordingly. I believe we need to prepare ourselves for a simpler way of life in the future. The Transition Towns movement, centered in the UK, is attempting to do that. See: http://www.transitiontowns.org.
6 Tom Whitesell on Jan 24, 2009
Thank you Susan Willis for putting these links into circulation at the blog at Orion, so everyone can see. Next question: How to assemble a group of highly informed concerned people to publicly discuss and inform as large a group as possible of the general public, on issues of alternative energy technologies? Clearly each type of technology has serious drawbacks. And, perhaps equally significant, how to put this group’s discussion squarely in the face of president Obama? He comes across as a highly motivated, empowered, intelligent and openminded president, one of whose imperatives seems to be fostering a spirit of co-operation and goodwill worldwide.
7 Erik Hoffner on Jan 24, 2009
How is the story of the two Djok women who won the Goldman related to that of Jeffrey Lee, the last of his Djok aboriginal clan, who recently turned down an offer of $5 billion from uranium mining interest Areva? :
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/07/13/1183833772710.html?from=top5
Wonder if they’re closely related geographically or otherwise. Maybe Marcus A. above can say.
Asked about the rejected deal, Lee said: “I’m not interested in money. I’ve got a job; I can buy tucker; I can go fishing and hunting. That’s all that matters to me.”
Erik,
Orion Grassroots Network
http://www.oriongrassroots.org
8 sam p. on Jan 28, 2009
remember also the Rio Puerco / Church Rock, NM tailings dam failure in 1979—another type of threat posed to communities where uranium mining occurs, similar in kind but worse in degree than the threats posed by coal slurry and fly ash impoundments.
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I hugely appreciate these articles on uranium mining on Native lands. I also want to point out the increasingly serious questions being raised around the world about the actual net benefits of Windfarms, as far as CO2 emissions, health issues, economic scamming and so on. Please see: http://www.epaw.org http://www.rivercitymalone.com/?s=jack+sullivan
Obama is now president. It suddenly feels like anything is possible. Yes? Even an approach to energy which does not assume a win-win situation with limitless energy for all, without paying a huge price for it, one way or another? Is it possible we need to re-examine our expectations? We all need to do our homework. Continually. Thank you.