Invisible Threat to Clean Water and Oglala Sioux Sacred Sites By Proposed Uranium Mining in South Dakota: Monday 2 pm Telephone Conference

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“This case involves Powertech’s [now Azarga] application to conduct In Situ Recovery (ISR)[uranium]mining in Custer and Fall River Counties, South Dakota. The proposed [uranium] mine is within the ancestral land of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and threatens the Tribe’s cultural and groundwater resources, among other substantial impacts…” (Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Petition for Review of LPB-15-16 and Decisions Finding Tribal Contentions Inadmissible” (29 pp.) http://www.powertechexposed.com/2015.05.26%20OGLALA%20SIOUX%20TRIBE’S%20PETITION%20FOR%20REVIEW_ML15146A500.pdf

“Telephonic Status Conference” in the Matter of Powertech USA [now called Azarga] Dewey-Burdock In Situ Leach Uranium Mine 11/07/16 2:00PM – “Those wishing to access this status conference via teleconference (non-speaking, listen only) please email or call Cooper Strickland at Cooper.Strickland@nrc.gov or (301) 415-5880 for more information.” http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg?do=details&Code=20161409 The 2 pm time is presumably DC-NY time.

People have been fighting the proposed Dewey Burdock uranium mine in South Dakota for almost a decade. Although some opponents of…

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