The Roca Honda mine is a massive proposed uranium mine just west of Mount Taylor near San Mateo, New Mexico. It is partially within the Mount Taylor Traditional Cultural Property (TCP). The Roca Honda mine would be a conventional underground mine that is anticipated to produce millions of tons of ore and waste over 30+ years. The mine would use a tremendous amount of water in an area of New Mexico that is already seeing substantial water stress due to global climate chaos. By its own calculations, the Roca Honda mine would result in an aquifer drawdown of over 1,000 feet, which would not recover for centuries. In all, the mine is projected to use over 1.6 billion gallons of water.
The Proposed pipeline route lies dangerously close to the sacred site of the Pipestone National Monument. In this webinar we will go over how to submit your public comment, the history of the pipeline, the dangers to the land and water, and how Magellan’s Cultural Survey is inadequate and incomplete.
There are over 525 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation, the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency is promoting a resolution to develop a commercial partnership between the Navajo Nation and DISA Technologies to use High Pressure Slurry Ablation on uranium mine waste within the Navajo Nation. Although described publicly as “clean up”, the technology, funding source, and regulatory pathway all show that HPSA is a uranium extraction method.
Tech corporations are marketing data center projects as “progress,” but the reality is that tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are quietly draining the South – economically and environmentally.
