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The Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter is working with other conservation groups as well as local, state and federal policy makers to ensure that the Grand Canyon, its watershed, and the health of area residents is protected from the harmful impacts of uranium mining. We are supporting a proposal to protect one million acres near the Grand Canyon from new future mining activities, including uranium mining, and also have challenged a proposal to allow uranium mining exploration within only a couple of miles of the Park boundary. June 25, 2009, One Year Later: Grand Canyon’s Uranium Threat Unchanged Following Congressional Emergency Action Grand Canyon, ARIZ – One year ago today, Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, announced that the House Committee on Natural Resources had introduced and passed an emergency resolution pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act prohibiting new uranium mining claims, exploration and resulting mining across 1 million acres of public lands surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. More... A Background of Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon A Legacy of Waste... Harm to Native Peoples from Uranium Mining Withdrawal Boundaries Map (2.5 MB pdf) Current Mining Claims Map (4.4 MB) For more information contact Stacey Hamburg at (928) 774-6514 stacey.hamburg@sierraclub.org |
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