Word: uranium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...energy shortage of the last decade has catapulted American Indian tribes, under whose lands lie vast domestic energy resources, into a politically influential but tenuous position. American Indian tribes own more than 50 per cent of this country's known reserves of uranium--deposits that account for more than 4 per cent of the total world uranium output. More than one-third of the nation's surface coal lies on Indian lands, areas that have also been proposed as sites for future synthetic fuel plants. But in recent years, legislation has been proposed in Congress to limit the control...
Winona LaDuke '80-3, a Chippewa by birth, is a leading Indian expert on uranium mining on reservations. A political organizer and journalist, LaDuke spent the past year and a half on leave from Harvard, working with Indian tribes to fight uranium and coal mining on their reservations. She has spoken as well at anti-nuclear rallies across the country in an attempt to make people aware of the dangers of uranium mining to the Indian people...
...seemed as if everybody from clerks and college boys to teachers and truckers was off traipsing through the deserts of the Southwest and the forests of the northern Midwest, hoping to hear the staccato clicking of a brand-new Geiger counter. Homeowners all across America daydreamed of discovering uranium in their backyards and living on Easy Street forever. In New Jersey's Jefferson Township, a small (pop. 16,000) community nestled in green hills about an hour's drive from Manhattan, that old dream is a present reality. The rock beneath is veined with high-grade uranium...
...hills around Jefferson Township are honeycombed with old iron mines. Geologists have long known that some uranium must be there too, since it is often found in rock formations that yield iron. But the first hint that there might be enough to make mining worthwhile came only four years ago, when a retired contractor named Joseph Riggio received a letter from Pennzoil saying it had reason to believe there were "good amounts" of uranium on his property. Riggio reacted by getting in touch with Exxon, a Pennzoil rival. Exxon reacted by drilling some test holes on Riggio's land...
...concerned with the environment. So are we." Twenty years ago, most citizens would have been satisfied with such statements. But, like other Americans, Jefferson Township inhabitants are now haunted by memories of things like the Santa Barbara Channel spill, charges of oil price manipulation and a deep suspicion of uranium itself, a substance once so devoutly sought after...