The Havasupai Tribe and
environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service for
allowing a uranium mining business to activate six miles outside of Grand
Canyon National Park.
Havasupai Chairman Don
Watahomigie supposed the mine is on a sacred site and designated conventional enlightening
property. He’s also anxious about caring the tribe’s drinking water.
Environmentalists
say the Forest Service needs to modernize a 1986 environmental review.
The mine falls in the
1-million-acre ban on removal approved by the Obama Administration over a year
ago. The Forest Service determined the Canyon Mine had “valid existing rights”
predating the ban, which would allow the extract to operate.
A presenter for the U.S. Forest Service
says he cannot comment on pending litigation.
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