DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a>: The U.S. takes a step toward allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> on the ocean floor, a fragile <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a></p><p>by Julia Simon, April 25, 2025</p><p>"President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> signed an executive order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the deep seafloor, saying it would create 'a robust domestic supply for critical minerals.'</p><p>"There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies.</p><p>"The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway</p><p>"These metals can be found in potato-sized nodules lying on the ocean floor. Many of the nodules are in the middle of the Pacific ocean, beyond the legal territory of individual countries.</p><p>"Thursday's order might circumvent ongoing international negotiations to regulate deep-sea mining.</p><p>"Those regions have traditionally been overseen by an international organization, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternationalSeabedAuthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalSeabedAuthority</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISA</span></a>). The ISA has hosted talks for years to try to hammer out a rulebook to govern a potential seabed mining industry. The U.S. did not ratify the treaty that governs the seabed, and is not a voting member of the ISA, though in the past under previous administrations it has respected the ISA process.</p><p>"In his executive order, Trump instructed federal agencies to expedite the process for reviewing and issuing permits for mining on the seafloor in both U.S. and international territory. It will use a U.S. law from 1980, the "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeabed</span></a> Hard Mineral Resources Act."</p><p>"Scientists and environmental groups condemned the order, arguing that opening the deep seabed for mining could disrupt important marine ecosystems, and damage the fishing industry.</p><p>" 'This is being planned on some of the least resilient <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> on the planet,' says Douglas McCauley, professor of ocean science at the University of California Santa Barbara. 'It would have <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/catastrophic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catastrophic</span></a> biological consequences.'</p><p>"Underwater mining can create plumes of sediment that could suffocate marine life, and degrade the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodWebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodWebs</span></a> that fish depend on, McCauley says.</p><p>"There are also important questions about whether we actually need to be mining the seabed to get enough of these minerals for technologies like batteries, says Micah Ziegler, assistant professor of energy and chemical systems at Georgia Institute of Technology.</p><p>"While a couple of years ago researchers were concerned about the limitations of land-based mining for metals like cobalt and nickel, a variety of alternative <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>battery</span></a> chemistries have been developed that might reduce the need for those elements, Ziegler says."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5376482/trump-seabed-mining-executive-order" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-53764</span><span class="invisible">82/trump-seabed-mining-executive-order</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePolluters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Idiocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatteryAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BatteryAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCobaltMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoCobaltMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCobalt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleZinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleZinc</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Recycle</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoJobsOnADeadPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoJobsOnADeadPlanet</span></a></p>
Recent searches
No recent searches
Search options
Only available when logged in.
eupolicy.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This Mastodon server is a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in areas related to EU policy. When you request to create an account, please tell us something about you.
Administered by:
Server stats:
217active users
eupolicy.social: About · Profiles directory · Privacy policy
Mastodon: About · Get the app · Keyboard shortcuts · View source code · v4.3.8
#recyclecopper
0 posts · 0 participants · 0 posts today
DoomsdaysCW<p>As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> Considers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a>, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts</p><p>In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways</p><p>by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025</p><p>"At the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MidOceanRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MidOceanRidge</span></a> off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sulfide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sulfide</span></a> deposits and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/manganese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manganese</span></a> crusts.</p><p>"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/zinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zinc</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a>. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spring2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spring2025</span></a>. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted</p><p>“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecologist</span></a> at IMR who works on Norway’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mareano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mareano</span></a> deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.</p><p>"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pacific</span></a>, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seabed</span></a> there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/science-nat</span><span class="invisible">ure/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oxygen</span></a> produced in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSea</span></a> raises questions about extraterrestrial life</p><p>"Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CCZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCZ</span></a>), million-year-old rocks cover the seafloor. These rocks may seem lifeless, but nestled between the nooks and crannies on their surfaces, tiny sea creatures and microbes make their home, many uniquely adapted to life in the dark.</p><p>"These deep-sea rocks, called polymetallic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a>, don't only host a surprising number of sea critters. A team of scientists that includes Boston University experts has discovered they also produce oxygen on the seafloor.</p><p>"The discovery is a surprise considering oxygen is typically created by plants and organisms with help from the sun -- not by rocks on the ocean floor. About half of all the oxygen we breathe is made near the surface of the ocean by phytoplankton that photosynthesize just like land-dwelling plants. Since the sun is needed to carry out photosynthesis, finding oxygen production at the bottom of the sea, where there is no light, flips conventional wisdom on its head. It was so unexpected that scientists involved in the study first thought it was a mistake.</p><p>"This was really weird, because no one had ever seen it before," says Jeffrey Marlow, a BU College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of biology and coauthor on the study, which was published in Nature Geoscience.</p><p>As an expert in microbes that live in the most extreme habitats on Earth -- like hardened lava and deep-sea hydrothermal vents -- Marlow initially suspected that microbial activity could be responsible for making oxygen. The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms. They then measured how oxygen levels changed in the chambers over 48 hours. If there are plentiful organisms breathing oxygen, then the levels would normally decline, depending on how much animal activity is present in the chamber. But in this case, oxygen was increasing.</p><p>" 'We did a lot of troubleshooting and found that the oxygen levels increased many more times following that initial measurement,' Marlow says. 'So we're now convinced it's a real signal.'</p><p>"He and his colleagues were aboard a research vessel tasked with learning more about the ecology of the CCZ, which spans 1.7 million square miles between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a>, for an environmental survey sponsored by The Metals Company, a deep-sea mining firm interested in extracting the rocks en masse for metals. After running experiments on board the vessel, Marlow and the team, led by Andrew Sweetman at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, concluded the phenomenon isn't primarily caused by microbial activity, despite the abundance of many different types of microbes both on and inside the rocks.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PolymetallicNodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolymetallicNodules</span></a> are made of rare metals, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a>, nickel, cobalt, iron, and manganese, which is why companies are interested in mining them. It turns out, according to the study, that those densely packed metals are likely triggering "seawater electrolysis." This means that metal ions in the rock layers are distributed unevenly, creating a separation of electrical charges -- just like what happens inside of a battery. This phenomenon creates enough energy to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. They named this "dark oxygen," since it's oxygen made with no sunlight. What remains unclear is the exact mechanism of how this happens, if oxygen levels vary across the CCZ, and if the oxygen plays a significant role in sustaining the local ecosystem."</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826182909.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedaily.com/releases/2024</span><span class="invisible">/08/240826182909.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Breaking News! (via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span> ) </p><p>Feds Charge Ahead with Plan to Destroy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> poised to consider <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a>’s appeal </p><p>By Becket Law, Censored News, April 17, 2025</p><p>WASHINGTON – "The U.S. government today announced that it is forging ahead with plans to transfer a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> to a multinational mining giant in as few as 60 days, despite a<br>federal lawsuit challenging the action as illegal.</p><p>"In Apache Stronghold v. United States, Apache Stronghold—a coalition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apaches</span></a>, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies—sued to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to<br>Resolution Copper, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. </p><p>"The government has announced it will now forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><p>"Since time immemorial, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApaches</span></a> and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperiorAZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SuperiorAZ</span></a>, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces</span></a> and has been protected from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> and other harmful practices for decades.<br>These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was slipped into a must-pass defense bill [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NDAA</span></a>] authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> now plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater.</p><p>"The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelters at one of Australia’s most significant cultural sites.</p><p>" 'The feds are barreling ahead to give Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, even as the Supreme Court considers whether to hear the case,' said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. 'This makes the stakes crystal clear: if the Court doesn’t act now, Oak Flat could be transferred and destroyed before justice can be served.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04</span><span class="invisible">/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a>: U.S. Give-Away would Destroy Spiritual Home of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a><br> <br>By Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold, March 13, 2025, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a></p><p>"In the heart of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> lies a place that my people, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternApache</span></a>, still hold above all others. This place is Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat. To us, it is more than a stretch of land; it is sacred and holy. It is where our ancestors walked, where we gather to pray, to carry out ceremonies passed down through generations, and to speak to our Creator. </p><p>"This land is part of who we are as a people, and its spirit is bound to our own.<br>Now, the federal government plans to give our sacred Oak Flat to a multinational <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> owned by the Chinese Communist Party. This will not just scar the land; it will destroy it, poisoning the environment and trampling on our tribal rights. But the deepest wound will be the loss of our spiritual home, a place our people cannot exist without. We are fighting this in the courts, all the way to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSupremeCourt</span></a>. But this is about more than law and policy—this is about survival of our way of life and the spirit of this sacred land.</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/apache-stronghold-us-give-away-would.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03</span><span class="invisible">/apache-stronghold-us-give-away-would.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>A river ‘died’ overnight in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zambia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zambia</span></a> after an acidic waste spill at a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a>-owned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mine</span></a></p><p>By RICHARD KILLE and JACOB ZIMBA<br>March 15, 2025</p><p>KITWE, Zambia (AP) — "Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> were detected at least 100 kilometers (60 miles) downstream.</p><p>"The spill happened on Feb. 18 when a tailings dam that holds acidic waste from a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> in the north of the country collapsed, according to investigators from the Engineering Institution of Zambia.</p><p>"The collapse allowed some 50 million liters of waste containing concentrated acid, dissolved solids and heavy metals to flow into a stream that links to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KafueRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KafueRiver</span></a>, Zambia’s most important waterway, the engineering institution said.</p><p>"'It is an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> disaster really of catastrophic consequences,' said Chilekwa Mumba, an environmental activist who works in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/mining-pollution-china-zambia-environment-93ee91d1156471aaf9a7ebd6f51333c1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/mining-poll</span><span class="invisible">ution-china-zambia-environment-93ee91d1156471aaf9a7ebd6f51333c1</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> Update on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSupremeCourt</span></a> case!</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a>, December 16, 2024</p><p>Supreme Court update</p><p>"Thank you to all of our supporters who are continuing to pray about our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> petition to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a>. As you may know, the Supreme Court considered our petition for the second time at its conference on December 13, 2024. Since we did not receive notice about it’s decision to take the case, the Court intends to consider it again at its next conference on January 10, 2024. Under that schedule, we could hear on January 10 or 13 whether the Court will take our case. Or the Court may take additional time for further consideration.</p><p>"Either way, we take this as an encouraging sign that the Court is devoting extra time to our case and giving it careful examination. We ask all of our supporters to continue praying that the Justices will agree to hear our case and protect Oak Flat—just as the sacred places of other faiths have long been protected throughout the country. </p><p>Thank you again for your support."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="http://www.apache-stronghold.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">apache-stronghold.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Direct link to PDF:<br><a href="http://users.neo.registeredsite.com/8/3/2/11897238/assets/2024-12-16_Dr_Nosie_2nd_relist_statement.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">users.neo.registeredsite.com/8</span><span class="invisible">/3/2/11897238/assets/2024-12-16_Dr_Nosie_2nd_relist_statement.pdf</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerRide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>16 places to responsibly dispose of old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philadelphia</span></a></p><p>When not properly recycled, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ewaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ewaste</span></a> can leach into the waterways — and we miss a chance to get more use out of precious materials. </p><p>Words by McKenzie Morgan<br>Nov 30, 2024 </p><p>"For many Philadelphians, old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CellPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CellPhones</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/laptops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laptops</span></a> and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> gather dust in drawers or boxes in the back of closets. </p><p>"When residents finally start to feel fed up with the clutter or during their annual spring cleanings, these devices are sometimes tossed into the trash or blue recycling bins. These forgotten electronics have become a part of a growing citywide e-waste problem.</p><p>"Philadelphia creates around 1.5 million tons of residential and commercial waste annually, according to government initiative SmartCityPHL. Electronics and textiles comprise about 10% of the city’s waste stream. The rest is sent to incinerators and landfills, bringing hazardous and resource-rich materials with it.</p><p>"But the good news is, there’s something residents can do about it. </p><p>"While giving up or not upgrading our devices isn’t always an option, getting them out of our curbside bins and landfills is. The Philadelphia metro region has over a dozen facilities where you can donate and properly recycle your e-waste, keeping them out of landfills and giving them new life.</p><p>Here’s a guide to places in the Philadelphia region to responsibly dispose of old electronics."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://technical.ly/civic-news/electronics-recycling-phone-computer-philadelphia-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">technical.ly/civic-news/electr</span><span class="invisible">onics-recycling-phone-computer-philadelphia-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EWasteRecycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EWasteRecycling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartCityPHL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmartCityPHL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReduceReuseRecycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReduceReuseRecycle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleElectronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleElectronics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectronicsRecycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicsRecycling</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> Update on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSupremeCourt</span></a> case!</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a>, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, December 9, 2024</p><p>"Thank you to all of our supporters who are continuing to pray about our Supreme Court petition to protect Oak Flat. As you may know, the Supreme Court considered our petition for the first time at its conference on December 6, 2024. </p><p>"However, we received word today that the Court intends to consider it again at the Court’s next conference on December 13, 2024. Under that schedule, we could hear on December 13 or 16 whether the Court will take our case. Or the Court may take additional time for further consideration.</p><p>"Either way, we take this as an encouraging sign that the Court is devoting extra time to our case and giving it careful examination. We ask all of our supporters to continue praying that the Justices will agree to hear our case and protect Oak Flat—just as the sacred places of other faiths have long been protected throughout the country. Thank you again for your support."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/12/apache-stronghold-us-supreme-court.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/12</span><span class="invisible">/apache-stronghold-us-supreme-court.html</span></a></p><p>Donate:<br><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-apache-stronghold-protect-sacred-sites" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gofundme.com/f/stand-with-apac</span><span class="invisible">he-stronghold-protect-sacred-sites</span></a></p><p>More info:<br><a href="http://www.apache-stronghold.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">apache-stronghold.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerRide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Film] The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a> defending <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> land from a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> </p><p>The Real News Network<br>May 21, 2024</p><p>"In the heart of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> high desert lies a battle for the soul of the land. The ancient, sacred grounds of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Native</span></a> territory are under threat from a looming giant — a massive copper mine that promises riches for the locals, and a pathway to the so-called green transition. But, as is often the case, it comes at a cost.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> tribe calls it Chi’chil Bildagoteel; English speakers call it Oak Flat. It sits on a mountainous plateau within a 17.3-kilometer oasis in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TontoNationalForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TontoNationalForest</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BHP</span></a>, two of the world’s biggest mining companies, have staked their claim here through a joint venture called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a>. For over 10 years they’ve been lobbying governments for the right to build a colossal mine that would cover roughly 7,000 acres of surface area, and extend more than a mile into the ground.</p><p>"The only thing that stands in their way is the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> of the Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit community organization of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Natives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Natives</span></a> and non-Natives uniting to counter ongoing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a>, defend holy sites and protect freedom of religion, which was created to protect Chi’chil Bildagoteel.</p><p>"A short film by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrandiMorin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrandiMorin</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeordieDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeordieDay</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RicochetMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RicochetMedia</span></a>. Support for this journalism provided by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalSurvival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalSurvival</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCIGlv0xu_U" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=vCIGlv0xu_</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBildagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBildagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protectthesacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protectthesacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiningWithoutConsent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>If <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a> were a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> sacred site, we know how certain <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> judges would vote.</p><p>Solidarity with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ApacheStronghold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApacheStronghold</span></a> all the way to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSupremeCourt</span></a></p><p>After several legal hurdles, the Apache Stronghold will file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in a final effort to protect the sacred land of Oak Flat</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPT</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurtleIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TurtleIsland</span></a> Solidarity Network<br>May 20, 2024 </p><p>"For nearly a decade, Apache Stronghold has been fighting in federal court to preserve the heart of their spiritual practices: Chi’chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat). The equivalent of Notre Dame or the Temple on the Mount, Oak Flat is a sacred site threatened with destruction by the bottomless hunger of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> in the guise of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a>, which promises to turn the vaulted arches of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oak</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/juniper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>juniper</span></a> into a two-mile sinkhole. </p><p>"On 14 May 2024, Apache Stronghold’s tireless march for justice via the legal system turned on to the final approach, when the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to re-hear the en banc arguments before the entire bench of 29 judges. The next and final stage will be filing an appeal before the United States Supreme Court later this summer. </p><p>"CPT stands with Apache Stronghold and the next leg in this quest to make the United States recognize the truth: that Oak Flat is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredLand</span></a>. As sacred land, Oak Flat is part of the delicate and resilient web of relationships between soil and stone, water and wind that make this biosphere a home for all our relations. For all our sakes, Oak Flat must be protected. </p><p>"Please continue your support for and solidarity with Apache Stronghold through prayer, and action including signing this petition [link below] and organizing groups to sign amicus briefs committing to support Oak Flat and all sacred sites.</p><p>"CPT has been accompanying Apache Stronghold since May 2023 in prayer and action to protect Oak Flat.</p><p>"Oak Flat is under threat from the mining corporation Resolution Copper (a wholly owned subsidiary of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BHP</span></a>). In 2014, legislation in the United States Congress laid out a plan for a land transfer to give the area to Resolution Copper. While the legislation requires an Environmental Impact Statement before the land transfer, it allows Resolution Copper to do whatever it wants and exempts them from environmental regulation.</p><p>Resolution Copper plans an underground mining technique (“block cave”) that would turn this sacred site into a two-mile wide 1,000-foot crater and destroy it. Even though the land transfer has not yet taken place, Resolution Copper has already begun '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dewatering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dewatering</span></a>' which removes the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a> from shafts they drilled into the earth from property they already own. This endangers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OakTrees</span></a> and other plants that depend on groundwater to survive."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://cpt.org/2024/05/20/solidarity-with-apache-stronghold-all-the-way-to-the-supreme-court" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cpt.org/2024/05/20/solidarity-</span><span class="invisible">with-apache-stronghold-all-the-way-to-the-supreme-court</span></a><br> <br>Link to petition:<br><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-support-oak-flat" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-</span><span class="invisible">support-oak-flat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChichilBi%C5%82dagoteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChichilBiłdagoteel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a></p>
ExploreLive feeds
Mastodon is the best way to keep up with what's happening.
Follow anyone across the fediverse and see it all in chronological order. No algorithms, ads, or clickbait in sight.
Create accountLoginDrag & drop to upload