Feds: Benefits Outweigh Harm in Black Mesa
By Annie Greenberg
Navajo Times, Dec. 14, 2006
WINDOW ROCK A draft Environmental Impact Statement put out by the U.S.
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and enforcement recommends that the
Black Mesa Mine be reopened and the neighboring Kayenta Mine be expanded.
The justification OSM gives for the environmental harm that would follow
including the dislocation of 17 Navajo families is the boost to both the
tribal and overall economy that the mines would provide. Read more
Urgent Action Needed Now
SUPPORT COMMUNITIES IN STOPPING
MASSIVE COAL MINING EXPANSION PLANS.
SUMMARY:
Massive mining plans underway at Black Mesa, Arizona have serious
environmental, social, and human rights impacts. Send a letter today to
the Office Of Surface Mining, asking them to extend the critical deadline
to allow impacted communities adequate time to prepare their input on
stopping a destructive coal mining project.
Dineh Resistance For Global Survival!
Be Conquered Or Never, Dineh Resistance In Order For Global Survival!
By Bahe (Kat) Katenay, Big Mountain Dine’h
Month of the Big Wind (December), 2006
26 years ago while the wars were going in El Salvador and Guatamala about 25
walkers begin a short but long walk to protest a new coal mine at Burnham, New
Mexico. The walk started near the Chaco Canyon area on a quiet dirt road that ran
north towards Farmington and Shiprock. The walkers were mainly indigenous people
but mostly Dineh, and the walk took about three days for it to arrive at the
Burnham coal mine site. Read more
NEWS ADVISORY
News Advisory – Black Mesa Water Coalition
For immediate release: Friday December 29th, 2006
Contacts: Enei Begaye
Calvin Johnson
Nicole Horseherder
Bush Administration’s Office of Surface Mining holding
illegitimate public hearings according to Navajo and Hopi
Community Leaders
Community Leaders hold Press Conferences to announce
plans about OSM’s upcoming Public Hearings on the
alternative water supply for the Black Mesa slurry line
and the Black Mesa Mine. Read more
Mine pipeline could dry up Leupp wells
The facts from the following article regarding the Black Mesa Mine
Project’s (BMMP) plans are an outrage! Listed within is also where you can
go to view the BMMP Draft EIS Statement, and when and where the public
meetings are to express your comments.
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Mine pipeline could dry up Leupp wells
By CYNDY COLE
Sun Staff Reporter 12/03/2006
Pumping water from the aquifer near Leupp to a reopened Black Mesa Mine
would help restore hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in annual
tribal revenues. Read more
