The Navajo Nation took the unusual step of using its police force to try to impede uranium shipments across its land last week—a preview of legal environmental battles to come if other uranium mines open in the southwest.
Energy Fuels Resources Inc., on July 30 began transporting its first shipments of uranium ore from its new Pinyon Plain mine near the Grand Canyon in Arizona to the company’s White Mesa Mill in southeast Utah, the first of possibly many such shipments to the only uranium ore processing site in the US. Transporting uranium ore is banned on the Navajo Nation, ...
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