PROTECT LAKOTA PEOPLE'S SACREDWATER
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Owe Aku, the Lakota Nation, and our Allies are involved in truly a 'David vs. Goliath' struggle
Why are we trying to raise $10,000?
NASA data shows the world is running out of water. We are trying to preserve it one gallon at a time. [http://portside.org/2015-06-17/new-nasa-data-show-how-world-running-out-water] Please Help Us by Reading this post and donating at www.oweakuinternational.org. $10, $20, $100, it all helps!!!!!!!!
Our water has been contaminated by uranium mining for 30 years. It has spread its toxins and contaminants through our aquifers and waterways negatively impacting the people, animals, plants and birds who live in our territory. Cancer, liver disease, diabetes and myriad health problems plague the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in what amounts to environmental genocide.
We are involved in truly a 'David vs. Goliath' struggle by our activist lawyers and good guy scientists against the biggest, baddest Uranium company in the World!
We are working to protect our groundwater, which we know from long studies, is connected to the Cameco, Inc. n Situ Leach uranium mine site, and our surface water which flows to our Pine Ridge Homelands from the mine site at Crawford, NE, 30 miles away as the crow flies. Please help us! We want to protect the precious Ogllala Aquifer from uranium mining's radioactivity and thorium, cadium, arsenic and many other deadly elements from being unleashed forever, not to mention the enormous amounts of water used (9,000 gallons a minute) as well as the storage of BILLIONS of gallons of radioactive waste water deep underground, forever!
In 2007 Owe Aku and allies filed to seek "intervenor" status in the license renewal application of Canadian owned Cameco, Inc. to In Situ Leach mine uranium at Crawford, NE. The headquarters of Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way) is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Owe Aku is a grassroots Lakota cultural preservation and revitalization organization that also seeks to protect human rights and the coming generations' right to live as Lakota people.
The Pine Ridge Reservation is rich in Lakota culture and history. What most people think of is that it is the land of Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Elk. We are not dusty relics on a museum shelve though, we are living and breathing in todays world, and we need help to fund our case against Cameco, Inc. the worlds largest uranium miner!
After almost 10 years of side hearings and alot of legal wrangling by our pro-bono attorneys, the Atomic Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled our case for August 24, 2015 and expects the hearing to last for one week.
When we filed, we were the first intervenors to file against a uranium mining corporation in the United States in 17 years. Now it is almost 27 years! Please help us to raise the funds to get our expert witnesses to the hearing on August 24, and to help our legal team to get there as well, they have worked pro bono and covered most of their expenses for almost 10 years. Now is the time when people who love water and health to step up and help us with some of the expenses!
The NRC lawyers and judges have been bending over backwards to make things as easy for Cameco as possible and the miners and regulators have been hiding the fact that faults and fractures spread contamination from the mine and that they have known about it since at least 1989 when they got the Jim Petersen Whistleblower.
Now that the mine has been operating upstream from Pine Ridge for 30 years spreading contaminants into pathways that impact people, animals, plants and birds, cancer and diabetes and health problems plague the Oglalas in what amounts to environmental genocide.
Help us build a scientific record by donating to support our expert witness fees!
To learn more about the work of Owe Aku or to get contact info please visit our website at www.oweakuinternational.org.
Why are we trying to raise $10,000?
NASA data shows the world is running out of water. We are trying to preserve it one gallon at a time. [http://portside.org/2015-06-17/new-nasa-data-show-how-world-running-out-water] Please Help Us by Reading this post and donating at www.oweakuinternational.org. $10, $20, $100, it all helps!!!!!!!!
Our water has been contaminated by uranium mining for 30 years. It has spread its toxins and contaminants through our aquifers and waterways negatively impacting the people, animals, plants and birds who live in our territory. Cancer, liver disease, diabetes and myriad health problems plague the Oglala Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in what amounts to environmental genocide.
We are involved in truly a 'David vs. Goliath' struggle by our activist lawyers and good guy scientists against the biggest, baddest Uranium company in the World!
We are working to protect our groundwater, which we know from long studies, is connected to the Cameco, Inc. n Situ Leach uranium mine site, and our surface water which flows to our Pine Ridge Homelands from the mine site at Crawford, NE, 30 miles away as the crow flies. Please help us! We want to protect the precious Ogllala Aquifer from uranium mining's radioactivity and thorium, cadium, arsenic and many other deadly elements from being unleashed forever, not to mention the enormous amounts of water used (9,000 gallons a minute) as well as the storage of BILLIONS of gallons of radioactive waste water deep underground, forever!
In 2007 Owe Aku and allies filed to seek "intervenor" status in the license renewal application of Canadian owned Cameco, Inc. to In Situ Leach mine uranium at Crawford, NE. The headquarters of Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way) is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Owe Aku is a grassroots Lakota cultural preservation and revitalization organization that also seeks to protect human rights and the coming generations' right to live as Lakota people.
The Pine Ridge Reservation is rich in Lakota culture and history. What most people think of is that it is the land of Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Elk. We are not dusty relics on a museum shelve though, we are living and breathing in todays world, and we need help to fund our case against Cameco, Inc. the worlds largest uranium miner!
After almost 10 years of side hearings and alot of legal wrangling by our pro-bono attorneys, the Atomic Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled our case for August 24, 2015 and expects the hearing to last for one week.
When we filed, we were the first intervenors to file against a uranium mining corporation in the United States in 17 years. Now it is almost 27 years! Please help us to raise the funds to get our expert witnesses to the hearing on August 24, and to help our legal team to get there as well, they have worked pro bono and covered most of their expenses for almost 10 years. Now is the time when people who love water and health to step up and help us with some of the expenses!
The NRC lawyers and judges have been bending over backwards to make things as easy for Cameco as possible and the miners and regulators have been hiding the fact that faults and fractures spread contamination from the mine and that they have known about it since at least 1989 when they got the Jim Petersen Whistleblower.
Now that the mine has been operating upstream from Pine Ridge for 30 years spreading contaminants into pathways that impact people, animals, plants and birds, cancer and diabetes and health problems plague the Oglalas in what amounts to environmental genocide.
Help us build a scientific record by donating to support our expert witness fees!
To learn more about the work of Owe Aku or to get contact info please visit our website at www.oweakuinternational.org.
Organizer
Kent Lebsock
Organizer
Manderson-White Horse Creek, SD