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Resource Extraction and Environmental Justice
Timothy C. Weiskel
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"Nuclear Comeback" and EJ Issues Concerning Uranium |
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Nuclear
energy seems to be experiencing a"revival" both
in this country and around the world. Cases are becoming
apparent on a global scale |
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Case of Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands |
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Southwest
Research and Information Center (SRIC) was founded in 1971
for the purpose of providing information to the public on
the effects of energy development and resource exploitation
on the people and their cultures, lands, water, and air
of New Mexico and the Southwest.
SRIC's
purpose, including the focus on issues affecting the Southwest,
has remained essentially unchanged, although it now has
a successful record in affecting issues of national and
even international importance, such as nuclear waste management
and uranium mining reclamation. SRIC also has helped empower
dozens of local community groups so that they effectively
participate in government and corporate decisions that affect
them.
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The Midnite
Uranium Mine
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The
Midnite Uranium Mine on the Spokane Indian Reservation
is an open pit mine that has been left open with exposed radioactive
ore throughout the site since 1981 |
Uranium is
NOT My Friend
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This
film is about a coalition of Native Americans from the Pine
Ridge Reservation (South Dakota) and Environmentalists fighting
the largest and most powerful Uranium Mining Company on the Planet.
Uranium is Radioactive. Depleted Uranium is used
in nearly every shell fired in Iraq and Afghanistan, causing many
terminal illnesses, birth defects, and even the mysterious Gulf
War Syndrome (Google Search "Depleted Uranium" and see
for yourself).
Uranium is also used to make Nuclear Power and
of course, Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Watch the 2005 film "Hiroshima" about the effects of a
nuclear bomb. Nuclear Power is not a 'Green Energy Source' like
it is advertised. Do your own research and decide for yourself!
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"Chernobyl,
20 years later," YouTube - GreenpeaceVideo, (13 February
2008).
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20 years ago: Chernobyl" is a fast moving short film - like a
music video - about the Chernobyl disaster and Greenpeace anti-nuke
campaign. Film by Christoph Schwaiger. |
Gwich'in Tribe and Alaska's Oil |
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Members of North America's Gwich'in Tribe speak eloquently
about caribou. They're part of the history, culture and
lore of this tribe, which makes its home north of the Arctic
Circle
"We
depend on the caribou, as Gwich'in people, for food, clothing,
medicine, tools and spirituality. And in return, the caribou
depend on us to take care of the land for them so they can
continue to be free," said Sandra Newman a council
member of the Vuntut Gwich'in (guh-WITCH-in) First Nation.
Newman,
and other Gwich'in like her, are opposed to energy development
along the icy coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge (ANWR) because they say they fear it will disrupt
the calving area for the Porcupine caribou herd, which tries
to migrate each spring to that area.
It
is known among the Gwich'in as "the sacred place where
life begins." ....
But
22 years earlier, the Gwich'in and their tribal cousins
not only courted oil and gas corporations, they signed a
wide-ranging lease allowing energy development and refining
on their own tribal lands, which are adjacent to ANWR.
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| Coal
Mining in West Virginia |
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A new holy war is growing within the conservative evangelical
community, with implications for both the global environment
and American politics. For years liberal Christians and
others have made protection of the environment a moral commitment.
Now a number of conservative evangelicals are joining the
fight, arguing that man's stewardship of the planet is a
biblical imperative and calling for action to stop global
warming
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Oil
and the Indians of Ecuador |
| Texico
in Ecuador - ChevronTexico.Com |
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History
From 1964 to 1992, Texaco drilled for oil in the northern
region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, known as the "Oriente".
The company left 627 open toxic waste pits and other facilities
which continue to leak highly toxic waste, affecting more
than 30,000 local people. |
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Environmental
Justice Issues in Chiapas, Mexico |
In
2001 the National Museum of the American Indian
(NMAI) launched the Native Networks Website
to welcome you to the field of Native media throughout
the Americas. The site provides information about new productions
and media makers, current areas of special interest and
accomplishments in the field. |
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The
Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American
Indian is dedicated to presenting and disseminating information
about the work of Native Americans in media. The Center's
Native Networks Website has four goals:To provide a representation
of current work in the field of Native American media including
film, video, radio, television and new media.To provide
information to the public about the outstanding media productions
which have been presented in the museum's programs.To provide
the FVC and NMAI a way to maintain regular and frequent
contact with the community of Native American independent
media producers.To provide a space for Native media makers
to exchange ideas and to gather professional information.
The
Chiapas Media Project |
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| Oil
Extraction from Angola |
| Angola:
Kuando-Kubango: Chevron to Invest USD 9.4 Million |
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Angola
Press Agency
Menongue - The oil firm ChevronTaxaco and the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) will invest about USD 9.4
million in social programmes in Angolan provinces of Kuando-Kubango,
Cabinda, Huambo and Bié, this year.The information
is contained in a press release that reached Angop on Monday,
stating that the programme will be implemented under the Government
pilot plan on administrative decentralisation, in one district
of each of the provinces mentioned above.In Kuando Kubango,
the note says, the amount will be invested through the District
Development Programme with the partnership of the USAID, the
Social Aid Fund (FAS) and the Territory Administration Ministry
and aims at strengthening the districts' administrative capacity
and of the communitarian organisations. |
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The
Case of Oil and the Ogoni in Nigeria |
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The writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has
been executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency.
The country's military rulers ordered the execution of Mr
Saro-Wiwa and eight other dissidents should go ahead at
0730 local time (0830 GMT).
They were taken in chains to a prison in the southern city
of Port Harcourt and hanged.
The activists were condemned to death 10 days ago after
being found guilty of involvement in four murders.
Mr Saro-Wiwa insisted they were framed because of their
opposition to the oil industry in the Niger-Delta region
of southern Nigeria.
At his trial Mr Saro-Wiwa said the case was designed to
prevent members of his tribe, the Ogoni, from stopping pollution
of their homeland and getting a fair share of oil profits.
Dozens of Ogonis have been imprisoned by the military regime
led by General Sani Abacha who seized power two years ago.
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The
Particular Case of Oil in Iraq
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"VIETNAM WAR: The Legacy of Agent Orange,"