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Over 1 million gallons of toxic mine waste spilled into the Animas River, turning it an eerie orange. This should make us think twice about mining uranium near the Grand Canyon.

For more than a century, protecting the Grand Canyon, in its entirety, has been an uphill battle. From tourist developments to mining interests, the Grand Canyon remains under siege.

While speculators may see their investments fall flat, those of us who actually live here face a much more dismal reality: the prospect of permanent radioactive contamination threatening Grand Canyon’s viability as the backbone of our region’s economy and as an internationally treasured landscape.

With uranium mining set to resume at the Canyon Mine in June, the time has come to ask: how much are we willing to risk?