Uranium mining on Arizona Strip threatened by Federal Government

Headed by the Arizona-Utah Local Economic Coalition, the thought was held at the Washington County Administration Building on Sept. 7. Co-chaired by Washington County Commissioner Alan Gardner and Mohave County Commissioner Buster Johnson of Arizona, the Coalition heard testimony for and alongside a proposal of Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, Salazar plans to close one million acres of the Arizona Strip to numerous uses for the next 20 years.

Uranium mining is seen as the major target of Salazar’s proposal, as the bulk of current mining movement takes place in the one million acre zone if passed, future mining claims will be out of the question, while present ones will develop into subject to review.

The problems lies in concerns over potential infectivity cause to water by uranium mining it is also supposed that the mining will guide to the contamination of the Colorado River and adversely authority the scenery of the Grand Canyon in 2009; the Department of the Interior organized an Environmental Impact.