2/5/20: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik International's "Loud & Clear"

Ian Zabarte speaks at a Native American Nuclear Issues Forum he organized at University of Nevada at Las Vegas.https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/beyond-nuclear-with-kevin-kamps_84

This episode features Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians, and Secretary of the Native Community Action Council, based in Las Vegas, NV.

Ian discusses the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863 between the Western Shoshone and the United States of America, its violation by nuclear weapons testing in Nevada since 1951, and the further threat of high-level radioactive waste dumping at Yucca Mountain. All the environmental justice violations must stop!

Listen to an earlier joint appearance on Sputnik's "Loud & Clear" by Ian Zabarte and Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps, below. Also posted there is a write up Sputnik did about Ian's revelations on the show.

Update on February 11, 2020 by admin

11/27/19: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik International's "Loud & Clear"

https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/beyond-nuclear-with-kevin-kamps_78

Hosts Brian Becker and Nicole Roussell are joined by Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of Shoshone Indians, and Secretary of the Native Community Action Council, as well as Beyond Nuclear's Radioactive Waste Specialist, Kevin Kamps.

A good part of the discussion was about the Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump, targeted at Western Shoshone Indian land in Nevada.

Update on December 3, 2019

See the article by Sputnik News, with links to additional background info.:

‘Environmental Racism’: US Ignores Native Land Claims, Safety Studies by Pushing Nevada Nuclear Dump

As reported by Sputnik. See the link to the "Beyond Nuclear" interview, by "Loud & Clear," with Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps, and Western Bands of the Shoshone Indians principal man Ian Zabarte. Zabarte also serves as secretary of Native Community Action Council.

Lawmakers oppose Lake Huron high-level nuclear waste storage

As reported by MLive, a bipartisan, bicameral resolution opposing high-level radioactive waste dumping near the shoreline of the Great Lakes has been introduced in Congress. The initial sponsors include U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, both Democrats from Michigan, as well as U.S. Representatives Dan Kildee (Democrat-Flint Twp., MI) and (John Moolenar, Republican-Midland, MI).

See the Congress Members' press release, here.

It reports: The resolution is supported by other Democrats and Republicans in the Michigan delegation, including Congressman Fred Upton (MI-06), Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02), Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (MI-14), Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12),  Congressman Paul Mitchell (MI-10), Congressman Jack Bergman (MI-01), Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11), Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09), Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (MI-08), and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13).

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization, comprised of Canada's three nuclear power utilities, has narrowed the list to three remaining candidate sites for the national high-level radioactive waste dump: two neighboring communities, Huron-Kinloss and South Bruce, near the Lake Huron shore, not far (20-some miles) from Kincardine, Ontario, "home" of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station's nine reactors, the biggest nuclear power plant on Earth.

Similarly, a growing bicameral, bipartisan "caucus" of congressional Great Lakes protectors -- also led by Stabenow and Kildee, mentioned above -- has for several long years, opposed a Canadian nuclear power industry proposal to bury so-called "low" and highly radioactive "intermediate" level radioactive wastes on the Lake Huron shoreline, at the BNGS itself.

On January 31st, the very nearby Saugeen Ojibwe Nation (whose territory "hosts" BNGS) will vote in a referendum on whether or not to accept Ontario Power Generation's offer of $150 million. If SON accepts the $150 million, OPG will expect the tribal First Nation community to "host" -- forevermore -- the "low" and highly radioactive intermediate level nuclear wastes from 20 reactors across the province.

On October 19, 2018, the Detroit Free Press published a feature length article about the 60,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste putting the Great Lakes at risk, on both sides of the border.

On January 13, 2020, the Chicago Tribune ran a major article about Ojibwe views regarding the sacredness and fragility of their Great Lakes homelands, as well as the radioactive risks they face.

See 2013 and 1990 maps, depicting the radioactive risks to the Great Lakes from most stages of the uranium fuel chain, including dozens of atomic reactors along their shores.

Don't Waste Michigan and other grassroots environmental watchdog groups have opposed these Great Lakes shoreline radioactive waste dumping schemes since they were first floated in 2001. Beyond Nuclear has opposed them since its founding in 2007, including repeated rounds of testimony before Canadian federal nuclear and environmental regulatory agencies over the course of many years.

Learn more about these issues at the website of Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump.

Environmental, nuclear worries force Prairie Island tribe to seek new lands

As reported by Minnesota Public Radio News.

San Francisco removes racist, anti-Native Civic Center statue

As reported by Curbed San Francisco.

Ian Zabarte, Secretary of Native Community Action Council in Las Vegas, NV, and Principle Man of the Western Bands of Shoshone Indians, reported the news to Beyond Nuclear, during his participation in major climate protests in San Francisco.

Ian even improved the monument, with his "Native is Not a Wasteland!" banner -- the same one displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. at the youth climate rally and march, "Zero Hour," a couple months ago.

See photos, left.

July 14 Uranium Legacy Commemoration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 3, 2018

 

Contact: Edith Hood, Red Water Pond Road Community Association

505.905.8051 home, 505.713-4085 cell

Susan Gordon, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, coordinator

505.577.8438  sgordon@swuraniumimpacts.org  contact for photos or graphics

 

Red Water Pond Road Community: 39 Years Since North East Church Rock 

Uranium Tailings Spill That Was Never Investigated Nor Cleaned Up

 

•  Uranium Legacy Commemoration, Saturday, July 14, 7 am to 3 pm
•  12 miles North of Red Rock State Park on State Highway 566 near Church Rock, NM

The Red Water Pond Road Community on Navajo Nation will be hosting their 39th annual commemoration of the 1979 Uranium Tailings Spill that is the largest uranium tailings spill in the United States. 

   

On July 16, 1979, an earthen dam that held liquid uranium waste broke, releasing 1,000 tons of solid radioactive mill waste and more than 90 million gallons of acidic and radioactive liquids into the Rio Puerco. The contaminants flowed downstream through Gallup, NM and across nine Navajo chapters. Several days after the spill, United Nuclear Corporation sent a handful of people out with shovels and buckets in an attempt to remediate the mess. To this day there has been no reclamation, no study to see how far the contamination went and its impacts on local water systems and people’s health. United Nuclear Corporation has not been held accountable for the spill.

    

“Let us come together again and share these issues and concerns, collaborate and strategize, to push clean up of these contaminated environments among our Diné people, to restore, preserve and protect our Mother Earth,” said Edith Hood, Red Water Pond Road Community resident. “It is time for our state and tribal governments to stand up and help these impacted communities on Dinetah. There has been enough talk. It is time to take action on behalf of the people."  

    

The North East Church Rock community are concerned about the uranium contamination legacy that has poisoned Mother Earth, including our sacred waters, land, and livestock. This gathering will provide a venue to discuss and educate everyone about the impacts of uranium mining and milling and about the ongoing work to remove uranium contaminated soil from the surrounding areas to protect our families and environment. 

    

There will be a 7 am walk to the spill site to offer healing prayers. Following the walk people will gather under shade for food, community education, speeches, and a silent auction.

     

www.swuraniumimpacts.org

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