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Longest
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longestwalk.org
- 10 FEB 2008
On 11 Feb 2008, Longest Walk 2008 participants will
embark on a five month journey from San Francisco to Washington,
D.C. arriving on July 11th. The Longest Walk south route is being
led by AIM co-founder Dennis J. Banks. It is an extraordinary
grassroots effort on a national level to bring attention to the
environmental disharmony of Mother Earth, sacred site issues, and
to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original longest walk.
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Panel
Urges Caution Concerning Bid to Bring Foreign Nuke Waste to Utah
The
Salt Lake Tribune - 02 FEB 2008
The nation ought to take a hard look at the capacity
for nuclear waste worldwide before saddling Utah with the world's
waste problems.
That's
the gist of what members of the state Radiation Control Board
heard Friday as it considered plans by EnergySolutions to dispose
of waste from Italy at its low-level radioactive waste site in
Tooele County. It's also the thrust of a letter the board plans to
send to state and national decision-makers.
Earlier in the day, the chairman of the U.S. House
Science and Technology Committee urged the regional
group that oversees radioactive waste disposal, the Northwest
Compact, to use its authority to derail EnergySolutions' plans....
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Exxon
Mobil Posts Record Profits
AP
News - 01 FEB 2008
HOUSTON (AP) - Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) (XOM) on
Friday posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company - $40.6
billion - as the world's biggest publicly traded oil company
benefited from historic crude prices at year's end.
Exxon
also set a U.S. record for the biggest quarterly profit,
posting net income of $11.7 billion for the final three
months of 2007, beating its own mark of $10.71 billion in the
fourth quarter of 2005....
Already, ConocoPhillips has said record oil prices at
the end of 2007 helped it post a 37 percent increase in
fourth-quarter profit, even as it produced less crude and natural
gas than a year earlier. Its fourth-quarter net income rose to
$4.37 billion versus $3.2 billion a year earlier....
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Diné Included in U.S. Apartheid Report to UN
Navajo Times (hard copy)
- 24 January 2008
San Francisco – Navajo victims of coal mining and uranium mining are among the indigenous peoples included in a report on racism, forced assimilation and apartheid in the United States.
The “Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report,” was released Jan. 16 by the International Indian Treaty Council. The report will be presented to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in February.
Dedicated to Floyd Red Crow Westerman, who passed away on Dec. 13, 2007, the report is compiled from the testimony of individuals and groups of indigenous peoples and includes data from a wide range of sources.
The data reveals “a system of apartheid and forced assimilation,” where indigenous peoples are “warehoused in poverty and neglect” in the United States....
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Navajos
Target EPA in Power Plant Suit
Federal
agency has yet to make ruling on air permit
Santa
Fe New Mexican - 23 JAN 2008
ALBUQUERQUE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been notified by one of the nation's largest American Indian tribes that it intends to sue over the agency's lack of action on an air permit application for a proposed coal-fired power plant.
The Navajo Nation's Diné Power Authority and Houston-based Sithe Global Power have partnered to build the $3 billion Desert Rock plant, which would be capable of producing electricity for more than 1 million homes in cities across the Southwest.
Navajo Deputy Attorney General Harrison Tsosie told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the tribe and Sithe applied for an air permit in May 2004 but that the EPA has yet to make a ruling....
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Hopi
Chairman Clarifies Position on Proposed Use of SO2
Credits
Navajo-Hopi
Observer - 23 JAN 2008
Hopi Tribal Chairman Ben Nuvamsa has
clarified his position on what should be done with the
value of the SO2 credits that will accrue to Southern
California Edison as a result of the closure of the
Mohave Generating Station....
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Officials:
Corridors Will Be Established
Gallup
Independent - 24 JAN 2008
WINDOW ROCK — The U.S. Department of Energy is not designating any corridors on the Navajo Nation as part of its energy transport corridor, because it does not have the authority to dictate what Indian nations do on sovereign tribal lands.
But that does not mean that the corridors will not connect with Navajo lands or that the locations of the corridors will not in some way dictate a pathway through the reservation. In the case of Eastern Navajo, the corridor will impact four chapters in the checkerboard area, according to land officials.
“We have some corridors that abut the Nation, and we also know that there are other lands off the reservation that you care about, that you have historical connections to. There could be cultural impacts,” Laverne
Kyriss, DOE federal energy corridors project manager, told a handful of concerned tribal officials and grassroots Navajos during a meeting Wednesday in Window Rock.
While the room was packed with federal officials, the general Navajo public was noticeably absent, perhaps because many of them were at work during the 2-5 p.m. hearing.
Or, as pointed out by Anna Frazier of Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, Elouise Brown of Dooda Desert Rock, and Judy Willetto of the Division of Natural Resources, DOE did “a poor job in advertising the meeting,” so many members of the public were unaware that it was being held or that DOE had changed the location after it was advertised....
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Navajo
Group Offers Alternatives to Coal-fired Power Plant
Las
Cruces Sun-News
- 18 JAN 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—A group of Navajos
released a report Friday that spells out a host of
renewable energy alternatives to a controversial
coal-fired power plant proposed for the nation's
largest Indian reservation.
The Navajo Nation's Dine Power
Authority and Houston-based Sithe Global Power have
partnered to build the $3 billion Desert Rock plant
on tribal land in northwestern New Mexico. The plant
would be capable of producing electricity for up to
1.5 million homes in cities across the Southwest.
But Dine Citizens Against Ruining our
Environment said that in light of growing concern
over greenhouse gases and global warming, the
electricity should instead come from a mix of solar,
wind and natural gas....
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Coal Industry Plugs into the Campaign
Washington Post
- 18 JAN 2008
A group backed by the coal industry and its utility allies is waging a $35 million campaign in primary and caucus states to rally public support for coal-fired electricity and to fuel opposition to legislation that Congress is crafting to slow climate change.
The group, called Americans for Balanced Energy Choices, has spent $1.3 million on billboard, newspaper, television and radio ads in
Iowa,
Nevada,
and South Carolina.
One of its television ads shows a power cord being plugged into a lump of coal, which it calls "an American resource that will help us with vital energy security" and "the fuel that powers our way of life." The ads note that half of U.S. electricity comes from coal-fired plants.
The group has also deployed teams on the campaign trail; about 50 people, many of them paid, walked around as human billboards and handed out leaflets outside Tuesday's Democratic debate in Nevada with questions for voters to ask the candidates....
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LONGEST WALK 2–A
Spiritual Walk for Survival from Alcatraz to D.C.
www.longestwalk.org
- 14 JAN 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--On February 11, 2008, Longest Walk 2 participants will embark on a five- month journey across America to Washington, D.C. arriving on July 11, 2008. In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the historic Longest Walk of 1978 that resulted in historic changes for Native America, hundreds of communities are participating in the Longest Walk of 2008 to raise awareness about issues impacting our world environment, to protect Sacred Sites and to clean up Mother Earth....
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UC Berkeley's Bones of Contention
Native Americans say Hearst Museum is violating a law on returning ancient remains. But officials say finding rightful recipients is often impossible.
Los Angeles Times
- 12 JAN 2008
BERKELEY -- There is a legend at UC Berkeley that human bones are stored in the landmark Campanile tower. But university officials say that's
not true.
The human bones are actually stored beneath the Hearst Gymnasium swimming pool.
The remains of about 12,000 Native Americans lie in drawers and cabinets in the gym's basement. Most of them were dug up by university
archaeologists and have been stored under the pool since at least the early 1960s....
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Symbolically, a Door Closes for Nuclear Dump at Yucca
Fenced-off tunnel seen as progress by those for and against
Las Vegas Sun
- 11 JAN 2008
Washington — This may speak volumes about the status of the beleaguered
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project: A chain-link fence now blocks the
entrance to the tunnel that leads inside....
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YUCCA MOUNTAIN: DOE
Lays off 63 Workers
Las Vegas Review-Journal
- 08 JAN 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Energy on Monday disclosed it was dramatically scaling back at Yucca Mountain, laying off dozens of workers and shutting down nearly all activity at the nuclear waste site in response to deep budget cuts....
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