Grand Canyon Issues
What Can You Do?
Write comments to support Secretary Salazar’s proposed ban on new uranium claims within Grand Canyon watersheds and call your congressional representatives and ask them to support the Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act.
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Our accomplishments include a successful lawsuit, a proposed withdrawal, and a growing list of tribal and community supporters.
Recent Acccomplishments
- Built significant public support opposing uranium mining adjacent to Grand Canyon, ncluding support from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Southern Nevada Water Authority, CAP, Arizona Tourism Alliance, Arizona Game & Fish Department, Coconino County, state legislators, scientists, and the cities of Sedona, Flagstaff, Tusayan, and Cottonwood
- Helped develop a resolution that was passed by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in support of the Secretary of Interior’s proposed withdrawal of public lands from new mining claims within watersheds that drain directly into the Grand Canyon. The resolution was developed in cooperation with Havasupai Councilwoman Carletta Tilousi and presented to the NCAI during its November 2010 meeting in Albuquerque. The NCAI resolution also supports the Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act.
- HelpedChapters of the Navajo Nation develop resolutions to prevent uranium haul trucks from traveling through their communities.
- Joined with the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club in filing a suit that successfully challenged a “categorical exclusion” granted by the Kaibab National Forest after it approved a uranium exploration project without any analysis of its environmental impacts. As a result of this exclusion, Vane Minerals began drilling 39 test holes, some within 2 miles of the South Rim, in 2007.
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