“For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the National Park’s museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.”
▻https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/02/18/grand-canyon-tourists-exposed-radiation-safety-manager-says/2876435002
Supreme Court rejects industry’s plea to hear Grand Canyon #uranium mining case
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case challenging the government’s ban on uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, a major blow to industry groups hoping to mine for the nuclear material.
The court said it would not hear the case brought by the National Mining Association and the American Exploration and Mining Association, which challenged the Interior Department’s ban as being based on an unconstitutional provision of the law.
The rejection leaves in place a December appeals court decision that upheld the ban.
In 2012, Obama administration Interior Secretary Ken Salazar instituted the ban, partly because the neighboring Havasupai Tribe relies on groundwater from the area to survive.
“The lands in and around the Grand Canyon have always been the homeland of the Havasupai People,” Muriel Coochwytewa, the tribe’s chairwoman, said in a statement Monday.
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“Our ancestors lived and died amongst the sacred sites that cover this land. The mineral withdrawal is a necessary way to protect the land and the water that our people and our village depend upon, and we are grateful that the Supreme Court has agreed with the 9th Circuit’s conclusion ― that our lands and our people must be preserved.”
In March, the industry groups asked the court to review the ban, which prohibited uranium mining on public lands next to the national monument for 20 years.
While the Supreme Court’s decision to not take the case leaves uranium mining companies no more avenues to challenge the ban in court, they are reportedly lobbying the Trump administration to support renewed mining in the U.S. for both economy and national security reasons.
▻https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/409328-supreme-court-rejects-industrys-plea-to-hear-grand-canyon-uranium
#Grand_Canyon #USA #Etats-Unis #mines #extractivisme
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This Time Lapse Video of a Cloud-Filled grand Canyon will Take Your Breath Away
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/this-time-lapse-video-of-a-cloudfilled-grand-canyon-will-take-your-b
Millions of visitors a year come to Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park, one of the seven natural wonders of the world and the most visited national park in the western United States. However, on...
How Awe Makes Us Generous
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/how-awe-makes-us-generous
What do the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel, and gazing at distant stars all have in common?
They can awaken a deep appreciation for the world around us and inspire a profound sense of awe. This...
Google Unveils The Cartographer, Its Indoor Mapping Backpack | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/04/google-unveils-the-cartographer-its-indoor-mapping-backpack
▻http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_20140808_161934-motion.gif?w=399&h=540
If you have been following the development of Google Maps over the years, you are probably familiar with the Trekker, the backpack that includes a complete Street View camera setup for mapping anything from hikes into the Grand Canyon to walks through penguin colonies in Antarctica. Today, a new backpack is joining Google’s mapping tools: the Cartographer for indoor mapping.
The Cartographer uses a process called “simultaneous localization and mapping” (SLAM), a technique that’s typically used for mapping new locations and that Google is now putting to use to map anything from hotels to museums.
Geology of the Grand Canyon
▻http://rclark.github.io/grand-canyon-geology
Geologic #map of the Grand Canyon and Vicinity
Fin de semaine ! Ce week-end, je vais…
▻http://www.photo-tuto.fr/livre-ebook-photographie/activite-photo-week-end
Je vous posais la question sur Facebook hier : qu’allez-vous photographier ce week-end ? Vos réponses étaient très intéressantes et j’envierais presque plusieurs d’entre vous… Car figurez-vous que parmi nous certain-e-s vont photographier : un mariage, un nouveau-né, leurs proches, la Fête de l’Huma, leurs animaux de compagnie… voire même le Grand Canyon ! Une […]
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