Less than two years ago, President #Biden restored #NationalMonument #protections to Bears Ears and its red rock #canyons, high desert #wildlife and ancient remains of #Indigenous cultures. Why on earth would we now allow disruptive and damaging uranium mining right next door?
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As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s effort to better protect, conserve, and restore the lands and waters that sustain the health of communities and power our economy, President Biden will sign three proclamations restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments. By restoring these national monuments, which were significantly…
Some things are priceless. They're what national monuments are supposed to protect. And #BearsEars is full of priceless treasures, including:
- the #ValleyOfTheGods, with rock formations so rare and strange that it supplied a backdrop for episodes of the science-fiction show "Doctor Who,"
- the #CaliforniaCondor, one of the most #endangered birds in the world, with only a few hundred left in the wild
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- night skies that reveal countless #stars, with even less light pollution than #Yellowstone, #Yosemite or #Glacier national parks,
- and #HouseOnFire, the remains of an #ancient granary built into canyon walls that, when backlit by the sun, appear as if flames are shooting up from the structure.
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If a company called #AtomicMinerals Corp. gets its way, #drilling and #mining for nearby #uranium will threaten these wild and sacred treasures.
For starters, heavy equipment will disrupt the peace and quiet of the high desert. Drilling rigs will emit #pollution into the clear skies. If the rigs find uranium, mining will follow.
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The #WhiteMesa uranium mill, located just a mile outside of #BearsEars, has 700 million pounds of #ToxicWaste stored in ponds on-site -- an ecological sword of Damocles that's already hanging over the monument.
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The White Mesa uranium mill, located just a mile from Bears Ears National Monument, now houses more than 700 million pounds of toxic waste — making the Utah desert site “America’s cheapest radioactive waste dump,” a new report has found. Among the contents of the dump are remnants of the World War II-era Manhattan Project, as well as…
We demand better protection for #BearsEars and all of its treasures. Tell the Interior Department: Reject the new uranium drilling planned outside of Bears Ears.
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