Sunday, January 8, 2012

Grand canyon mining

  • Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to announce on Monday that he has approved a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the Grand Canyon.
  • (New York Times)
  • Although the direction of the administration was made clear in October, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will on Monday finalize a 20-year ban on new uranium-mining on some one million acres of land near the Grand Canyon.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • URANIUM MINING BAN COMING: The Interior Department is planning a 20-year ban on new mining claims on around 1 million acres of federal land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park.
  • (Politico.com)
  • The Interior Secretary is expected to issue a Record of Decision finalizing a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims on land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park.
  • (KPBS)
  • GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—Subsidiaries of Rhino Energy LLC are seeking approvals to expand a coal mine north of Fruita and open a bigger operation nearby.
  • (Denver Post)
  • A woman who identified herself as Dawn from Flagstaff said she wanted to know why Gosar didnt support putting uranium mining surrounding the Grand Canyon off-limits, as some have asked.
  • (Arizona Daily Sun)
  • Just like working at the Grand Canyon, operations are on a larger scale controversial issues surrounding the natural wonder like uranium mining and overflight management are not only complicated, but are ongoing, Uberuaga said.
  • (Williams Grand Canyon Tourguide)

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