Diné Organization Files Uranium Complaint with OAS Human Rights Agency

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ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA—Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) announced this week it will file its Additional Observations on the Merits including written and video testimony and other exhibits to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) based in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 21.

ENDAUM’s petition states that when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed Hydro Resources, Inc. (HRI) (now known as NuFuels, a subsidiary of the Canadian mining company Laramide Resources) to operate uranium mining in the two Diné (Navajo) communities of Crownpoint and Churchrock it violated human rights guaranteed in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, including the rights to life, health, benefits of culture, fair trial, and property.

The U.S. NRC licensed an ISL uranium mine it knows will contaminate groundwater that is an important resource of drinking water and cultural identity to communities that suffer increased risk of death and disease from historic uranium mining and milling the United States government not only tolerated but promoted.

ENDAUM and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) will be holding a Gathering over zoom on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 AT 12:30PM MDT to Celebrate the filing and to be available to members of the media to answer any questions about this unprecedented reckoning for the U.S. government and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for past and future uranium mining and milling activities on Indigenous lands.

Read additional coverage in the Albuquerque based online news site The Paper

 

Our New Logo

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NM IPL is so pleased to announce that we are expanding our ministry to connect with the El Paso Region. In the Southern part of our border state there is so much interchange between El Paso Region and Southern NM and our faith communities. Many of our judicatories extend into El Paso and West Texas. We also want to grow the opportunity for faith communities in West Texas to get engaged in health and environmental concerns related to the oil and gas industry and connect with Citizens Caring for the Future which some of our faith leaders are engaged with.
In recognition of our expanded mission, we have created a new logo

‘The Permian Climate Bomb’ 

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Oil Change International, Earthworks, and Center for International Environmental Law are launching the first in a series of installments of a major online report today.

The Permian Climate Bomb is a creative storytelling project developed in collaboration with artists, illustrating the environmental injustice and climate damages caused by barely-regulated oil and gas production in the United States, from New Mexico to the Gulf Coast.  The project aims to break down this multifaceted issue, with the goal of bringing it to the forefront of the fight against the climate crisis.

Part One of this series is launching today with the multimedia Permian Climate Bomb website, and reveals the Permian Basin has grown more than 500% in the past decade — and is still expected to grow aggressively in the coming decade, posing a major risk to President Biden’s and the world’s climate agenda.

The first section of the report is accessible at PermianClimateBomb.org in both English and Spanish, and Parts Two through Six of the series will be released in coming weeks. Please let me know if you have any questions, and thanks in advance for sharing!