As the United States shifts away from fossil fuels, we must simultaneously ramp up energy efficiency and transition to clean, renewable energy to power the nation's economy where, in addition to excluding fossil fuels, any definition of renewable energy must also exclude all combustion-based power generation, nuclear, biomass energy, large scale hydro and waste-to-energy technologies".
Further, we will vigorously oppose any legislation that: (1) rolls back existing environmental, health, and other protections, (2) protects fossil fuel and other dirty energy polluters from liability, or (3) promotes corporate schemes that place profits over community burdens and benefits, including market-based mechanisms and technology options such as carbon and emissions trading and offsets, carbon capture and storage, nuclear power, waste-to-energy and biomass energy".
Environmental Justice And Nuclear Power
1) Nuclear power plants are often situated in low income African American communities. Uranium mining and waste disposal are found mostly in Indigenous communities. The Navaho people especially suffered from nuclear power. Kathryn Brunner, submitted for a course, 2.26.17 when she was a student at Stanford, "Nuclear Power and the Navajo Reservation"
The history of nuclear energy and uranium mining in the United States is quite intertwined with many Native American reservations in the Southwest part of the United States. In 1950, a Navajo sheepherder,,,discovered uranium ore near Grant, New Mexico and thus uranium mining in the Southwest began. [1] The resources on the Navajo reservation were in high demand in the post WWII era for both C War Weapons and then commercial nuclear power. The Navajo reservation is 14.5 million acres, about the size of West Virginia. The reservation is located in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Four Corners area. Their uranium rich land has created many problems involving sovereignty over the land and resources, cultural impacts from technological changes, and the radiological hazards. [1] The Navajo people were the original caretakers of this land and uranium mining led to abuse of the people and their home, turning it into a wasteland
[1] D. Nelkin, "Native Americans and Nuclear Power," Sci. Technol. Human Values, 6, No. 2, 2 (1981).
2) "SNAP-SHOT" of environmental and economic justice issues in indigenous lands (US-CANADA)" INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK.
Inadequate governmental environment and health standards and regulations.
Clean up of contaminated lands from mining, military, and other industry activities.
National energy policies at the expense of the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Uranium mining developments and struggles to obtain victim compensation to Indigenous uranium miners, millers, processors and Downwinders of past nuclear testing experiments.
Nuclear waste dumping in Indigenous lands.
Backlash from US state governments giving in to the lobbying pressures of industry and corporations against the right of tribes to implement their own water and air quality standards.
Green New Deal Resolution And Nuclear Power
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