Havasupai Tribe’s Statement Opposing Uranium Extraction at Canyon Mine

Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine) started extracting uranium ore near the Grand Canyon in January 2024, nearly four decades after the mine, which now lies inside the boundaries of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument first broke ground. Read the Havasupai Tribe’s statement opposing the mining company’s actions ›

 

Havasupai Tribal Council Statement on uranium ore extraction at Canyon Mine.

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