Defenders of the Black Hills
Peace Walkers Reach DC
Air Quality Alert
IF YOU CAN SEE THE AIR, IT CAN'T BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH. Every day North Dakota's coal fired power plants pump dangerous toxins into the air, including radioactive particles, putting people all over the Region at risk. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making a decision about how much air pollution should be allowed from North Dakota's power plants, and they need to hear from you.
EPA hearing on the Regional Haze Rule for ND Wednesday, May 15, 2013 ND Health Dept. Environmental Training Center The world is run by those who show up. The coal industry will be there to push for more pollution in the air. If you can, please attend this meeting and tell the EPA that the air needs to be clean of any pollution. |
PUBLIC SAFETY CLOSURE ORDER IN EFFECTSioux Ranger District Riley Pass mine waste contains hazardous substances including arsenic, molybdenum, thorium, radium and uranium. Due to the human health, safety and environmental concerns related to elevated levels of these substances, the Forest Supervisor has closed the bluffs and some adjacent to all public entry through a special order. The special order has been placed on signs in the Riley Pass area and throughout the North Cave Hills. The order and closure maps are also available upon request.
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Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
"The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima Nuclear disaster...." Nuclear Physics Professor Kimberly Kearfott, University of Michigan, in comparing the readings obtained in northwestern South Dakota at the Cave Hills open-pit, abandoned uranium mines.
“It must always be remembered that the various Indian tribes were once independent and sovereign nations, and that their claim to sovereignty long predates that of our own government.”
Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice
(McClanahan v. Sate Tax Commission, 1973)