Are you one of the 27 million who gets drinking water from the Colorado River?

[Bobbieo]

Then, this headline ought to interest you!

'Canadian Company Mining Uranium In The Grand Canyon'.

http://nativeunity.blogspot.com

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Yes, I get some of my water from there...

And I did see that headline.

Great.

What happened to environmental protections?

Oh yeah.......sold to the highest bidder, right?

:eyes:

[Bobbieo]

3. I do believe Bush's "last minute political appointees to judgeships" have something to do with it

[DesertFlower]

2. i did in my last house. now

we have our own well.

[Bobbieo]

4. I sincerely hope you are away from the River!!!!

[DesertFlower]

6. i'm in phoenix. we're on an aquifer.

nowhere near any water or river.

[kestrel91316]

5. The drinking water in my part of the city comes from the north. Whew.

Of course, some of it comes from local groundwater, too, but don't let that get in the way of a good trashing of us Angelenos, even though our per capita water use is among the lowest in the nation IIRC.

[NYC_SKP]

7. You mean the Colorado River that never reaches the ocean, that one?

It just gets smaller and smaller and more and more shallow until there's nothing left.

What little is left before it reaches the Gulf of California on its way to the Pacific (on those rare occasions when any water is left) becomes polluted and toxic.





:cry:

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Not to mention salty. nt

[NNadir]

10. The one that's so radioactive that nobody drinks it. Everyone in Los Angeles and Las Vegas

will die.

[Javaman]

11. ?

:shrug:

[abqmufc]

8. Thanks, yep been coming since Babbitt was DOI Sec.

Babbitt's own many of the mining claims and land around the Canyon. Once they didn't get their massive resort back in the late 90's (Canyon Forest Village) outside the South Rim, the Babbitt's turned to resource extraction and buying up mining claims in the area. While Bruce Babbitt was Sec of Interior his brother was the County Commissioner for Coconino County in N. AZ. That county stretches from Flagstaff to the South Rim. All the "protected land" created under Clinton/Babbitt Admin. was kept under BLM. It was not switched to NPS. Thus, BLM can mine in the new parks in the SW whenever they want (Escalante, Shiva-wits, Coyote Buttes, Vermilion Cliffs, etc) all of these areas are rich in coal and uranium. "Most beneficial use" just switched from eco-tourism to energy for the mission of the BLM

FYI Seattle Post had an article on it as well. Despite State's, Counties, Cities, and Tribes passing laws for nuclear free zones (no mining, power) in the Southwest individual landownership, mineral rights are winning out. The checkerboard portions of the Navajo reservation are being bought up by mining companies and the people can do nothing about it.

http://www.seattlepostglobe.org/2010/03/01/canadian-company-mines-for-uranium-at-grand-canyon