Save Crow Butte! (Native Rights)
- av: Northwestern University Duck Group
- mottagare: Nebraska and South Dakota State Representatives, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Cameco Resources, a subsidiary of the Canadian Cameco Corporation, plans to expand the Crow Butte ISL Uranium mine near Crawford, Nebraska.
The expanded mine would use 7.1 billion gallons of water per year from the High Plains Aquifer, which is already being depleted at 160% percent of its replenishment rate, and which is the source of water for eight states.
Cameco Corporation has a record of spills at their mining sites including incidents at Rabbit Lake, Stateplace Saskatchewan, Smith Ranch-Highland, and Crow Butte, totaling more than 130 spills of radioactive material and poisonous heavy metals, in amounts as large as 300,000 gallons. No In Situ Leach (ISL) uranium mine has ever left water resources as clean as before their operations.
Radioactive spills at the Crow Butte Mine would seep through underground cracks proven to exist and contaminate the Arikaree Aquifer, the source of water for drinking, crop irrigation, and ceremony for the Oglala Lakota at the Pine Ridge Reservation. Contaminated water can lead to cancer, birth defects, kidney disease, miscarriages, and infant brain seizures.
This would be a gross violation of the U.N Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Water is a sacred part of life for the Lakota and spilling radioactive waste into it would mean damaging the very roots of their culture and traditions. Please help protect this precious resource for all peoples.
We the undersigned urge you to take all action necessary to stop the northern expansion of the Crow Butte Uranium Mine run by Cameco Resources.
The expanded mine would use 7.1 billion gallons of water per year from the High Plains Aquifer, which is already being depleted at 160% percent of it%u2019s replenishment rate, and which is the source of water for eight states.
Cameco Corporation has a record of spills at their mining sites including incidents at Rabbit Lake, Stateplace Saskatchewan, Smith Ranch-Highland, and Crow Butte, totaling more than 130 spills of radioactive material and poisonous heavy metals, in amounts as large as 300,000 gallons. No In Situ Leach (ISL) uranium mine has ever left water resources as clean as before their operations.
Radioactive spills at the Crow Butte Mine would seep through underground cracks proven to exist and contaminate the Arikaree Aquifer, the source of water for drinking, crop irrigation, and ceremony for the Oglala Lakota at the Pine Ridge Reservation. Contaminated water can lead to cancer, birth defects, kidney disease, miscarriages, and infant brain seizures.
The expansion of the mine, and the water usage and environmental degradation it would cause violate several articles of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including articles 12, 19, 24, 25, 29, 32 and 42, among others.
We support the rights of the Lakota People of Pine Ridge Reservation and of all residents of the Midwest to plentiful supplies of clean, unpolluted water. We urge you to take action to preserve the availability of this resource for present and future generations.
Thank you for taking the time to consider our petition.
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