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IEN Newsletter: The Work Begins Now

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U.S. Ignores Western Shoshone Objections–Barrick Gold Readies Itself to Carve Up Mount Tenabo Spiritual Area

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For Immediate Release:
Contacts:
Larson Bill, South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone,
775-744-2565/775-397-6726
Dan Randolph, Great Basin Resource Watch, 775-722-4056
Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, Western Shoshone Defense Project, 775-397-1371

Thanksgiving the “Cortez” Way-U.S. Ignores Western Shoshone Objections–Barrick Gold Readies Itself to Carve up Mount Tenabo Spiritual Area

November 20, 2008 Reno and Crescent Valley, NV.

Last week, after years of determined opposition from Western Shoshone, the U.S. Department of Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approved one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States on the flank of Mount Tenabo–an area well-known for its spiritual and cultural importance to the Western Shoshone. The area is home to local Shoshone creation stories, spirit life, medicinal, food and ceremonial plants and items and continues to be used to this day by Shoshone for spiritual and cultural practices. Over the years, tens of thousands of individuals and organizations from across the United States and around the world have joined with the Shoshone and voiced their opposition to this mine. The mine has been referred to as one of the most opposed mines in the world and indeed the level of public opposition is unprecedented for the BLM. With the threat of mine construction beginning as early as this week, the South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, the Western Shoshone Defense Project, and Great Basin Resource Watch, today filed a complaint in the Reno Federal District Court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to stop the mine.

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Black Carbon Soil Study: Global Warming Predictions Overstimated?

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Cornell Chronicle-Cornell University  Nov. 18, 2008

Global warming predictions are overestimated,
suggests study on black carbon
By Krishna Ramanujan

A detailed analysis of black carbon–the residue of burned organic
matter–in computer climate models suggests that those models may
be overestimating global warming predictions.

A new Cornell study, published online in Nature Geosciences,
quantified the amount of black carbon in Australian soils and found
that there was far more than expected, said Johannes Lehmann, the
paper’s lead author and a Cornell professor of biogeochemistry. The
survey was the largest of black carbon ever published.

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