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Proposed Nuke Mining Near Grand Canyon, Native Lands

By postMigrator February 8, 2008 February 8, 2008 RT Newswire

Western Shoshone Defense Project

So-Ho-Bi (South Fork) office:

775-744-2565 (fax and phone)

Main office:

P.O. Box 211308

Crescent Valley, NV 89821

Newe Sogobi

775-468-0230

775-468-0237 (fax)

Uranium Exploration Near Grand Canyon

By FELICITY BARRINGER
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nger/index.html?inline=nyt-per>

Published: February 7, 2008

With minimal public notice and no formal environmental review, the Forest
Service has approved a permit allowing a British mining company to explore
for uranium just outside Grand Canyon National Park, less than three miles
from a popular lookout over the canyon’s southern rim.

If the exploration finds rich uranium deposits, it could lead to the first
mines near the canyon since the price of uranium ore plummeted nearly two
decades ago. A sharp increase in uranium prices over the past three years
has led individuals to stake thousands of mining claims in the Southwest,
including more than 1,000 in the Kaibab National Forest, near the Grand
Canyon.

Texas Apache Sue to Halt Border Wall

By postMigrator February 8, 2008 February 8, 2008 RT Newswire

Apache in Texas sue Chertoff to halt land seizure for border wall

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UN Report Highlights U.S. Racism

By postMigrator February 8, 2008 February 8, 2008 RT Newswire

Contact: Alberto Saldamando
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

IITC General Counsel
Tel: (415) 641-4482
Email: alberto@treatycouncil.org

Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report to United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlights Racism by United States

February 5, 2008 – The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), in
coordination with the Western Shoshone Defense Project, submitted a
Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) on January 6th, 2008. The
UNCERD is the “Treaty Monitoring Body” for the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). It monitors
compliance of the States (countries) which have ratified the Convention with
its provisions, including the United States (US).

Submissions from Indigenous Peoples, tribes, organizations and communities
from around the country were included in the report. It highlights a range
of human rights violations and examples of racial discrimination reported by
Indigenous Peoples in the US. These include the destruction of sacred
sites, threats to spiritual and cultural practices, environmental racism,
violence against Indigenous women, Homeland Security-promoted border and
immigration policies, Treaty rights violations, widespread discrimination in
education, health and prisoners’ rights. Information was also included from
Indigenous Peoples in countries outside the US who are affected by US
policy. The report will be considered in the upcoming examination of the US
by the UNCERD in February in Geneva, Switzerland.

More To Larsen B Collapse Than Just Warming?

By postMigrator February 7, 2008 February 7, 2008 RT Newswire

Experts Challenge Ice Shelf Claim

Two scientists have claimed that climate change was not the only cause of the
collapse of a 500bn tonne ice shelf in Antarctica six years ago.

The 656ft (200m) thick, 1,255 sq mile (3,250 sq km) Larsen B shelf broke apart
in March 2002. But Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University and Ted Scambos of
Colorado University claim in a new study that it had been on the brink for decades.

They argue that glaciological and atmospheric factors were also involved.

In a paper published in the Journal of Glaciology, the pair say that when Larsen B
collapsed it appeared to be the latest in a long line of victims of Antarctic summer
heatwaves linked to global warming. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey
predicted in 1998 that several ice shelves around the peninsula were doomed because of rising temperatures in the region, but the speed with which Larsen B went shocked them in 2002.

But Prof Glasser said the dramatic event was “not as simple as we first thought”. He
acknowledged that global warming had a major part to play in the collapse, but
emphasised that it was only one of a number of contributory factors.

“Because large amounts of meltwater appeared on the ice shelf just before it
collapsed, we had always assumed that air temperature increases were to blame,” he
added. “But our new study shows that ice-shelf break up is not controlled simply by
climate.”

A number of other atmospheric, oceanic and glaciological factors are involved. “For
example, the location and spacing of fractures on the ice shelf such as crevasses and
rifts are very important too because they determine how strong or weak the ice shelf is.” Dr. Scambos, of the University of Colorado’s national Snow and Ice Data Centre, said the ice shelf had probably been in distress for decades before its demise.

“It’s likely that melting from higher ocean temperatures, or even a gradual decline in
the ice mass of the peninsula over the centuries, was pushing the Larsen to the brink,” he added.

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