Western Mining Action Network

Skyrocking uranium prices have pundits saying that long-forgotten Jeffrey City could rise again. But some residents say, yeah, we've heard that one before. Addie Goss reports.

• Posted by sarahk
• Published: 2008-03-27

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$190-million project in Northern B.C. rejected by federal-provincial review

• Posted by sarahk
• Published: 2007-09-18

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The Tse Keh Nay leadership is compelled to add its voice to the recent hoopla surrounding the B.C. mining sector's claims of glory, such as those made by Michael McPhie in his recent editorial in the Vancouver Sun and those recently made in this publication.

• Posted by sarahk
• Published: 2007-07-26

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We’re bobbing in a boat in the middle of Duncan Lake, an emerald-coloured, pristine mountain lake full of Dolly Varden char, rainbow trout, and mountain whitefish.John Allen French, hereditary chief of the Takla First Nation, looks every bit the warrior, wearing a black bandanna, an amulet of animal bones, and a fearsome grizzly tattooed on his right shoulder.

• Posted by sarahk
• Published: 2007-07-26

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• Published: 2007-07-26

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• Published: 2007-07-26

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Study looks at patterns of heavy-metal contamination of a site in southern France

• Posted by sarahk
• Published: 2006-08-21

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During the Cold War, uranium mines left contaminated waste scattered around the Indians. Homes built with the material silently pulsed with radiation. People developed cancer. And the U.S. did little

• Posted by sarahk
• Published: 2006-07-19

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NOT SINCE THE GLACIERS PUSHED toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region.

• Posted by andrewb
• Published: 2006-01-16

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PHOENIX (AP) January 5 2006 -- As the price of uranium continues to rise, so does the potential for another uranium rush in Arizona -- something Navajos are trying to stop.

• Posted by andrewb
• Published: 2006-01-06

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National Public Radio, November 6, 2005 A House committee has approved a measure to resume sales of federal lands across the West to people with mining claims, lifting a 12-year moratorium. It could make it easier for companies and individuals to buy federal lands and turn them into mines... or vacation resorts.

• Posted by andrewb
• Published: 2005-11-07

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RED DOG: Releases from huge lead and zinc mine make state the nation's top polluter.

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• Published: 2005-05-12

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Members of the Kashechewan First Nation have reinstated a blockade of the winter road running through their community, demanding fair compensation from diamond miner De Beers for use of their land.

• Posted by andrewb
• Published: 2005-02-08

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W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air and tried to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.

• Posted by andrewb
• Published: 2005-02-08

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Bedford Mining Alert's Marilyn Crawford

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• Published: 2005-01-14

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