Federal regulators have accepted a Phoenix-based company’s application for a preliminary permit to look further into building hydro-powered dams on tribal land.
The Federal Energy Regulatory... Read Original Story
FLAGSTAFF — A federal judge has ruled against environmental groups and a tribe in their bid to keep a uranium mine south of the Grand Canyon from operating.
The Canyon Mine near the national park'... Read Original Story
A federal agency has approved two permits for a hydroelectric dam developer to study the Little Colorado River located on Navajo Nation for their applications to build up to four dams.
However, in... Read Original Story
When a Phoenix company floated a proposal last year to build two hydroelectric dams on the Little Colorado River, it faced an outpouring of opposition.
Environmentalists said submerging a pristine... Read Original Story
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval doesn’t allow the Phoenix-based company Pumped Hydro Storage to enter any lands or create ground disturbance. But it does let the company conduct... Read Original Story
The Silmet rare metals processing plant in Estonia is more than 5,000 miles from San Juan County, but the White Mesa Mill south of Blanding could soon be receiving radioactive waste from the eastern... Read Original Story
When the White Mesa Mill was built in 1980, it was permitted to process domestic uranium ore for 15 years.
There were no plans for it to be an international radioactive waste disposal site, but that’... Read Original Story
Every time the sun shines on the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa next year, new solar panels on the town’s government buildings will generate electricity, eventually saving the tribe on... Read Original Story
