Nate Carlisle joined FOX 13 in October 2020 as an investigative producer and reporter. He spent the previous 15 years as a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune, covering criminal justice, polygamy, the military and the finances of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Navajo Nation has long said it wants uranium shipments prohibited from entering its land, with Navajo President Buu Nygren vowing to construct roadblocks to stop the trucks.However, the law is not on the tribe’s side.The Pinyon Plain Mine in northern Arizona, is owned by Energy Fuels, a company that wants to truck the ore 260 to its White Mesa Mill near Blanding, a route that mostly traverses the Navajo Nation.Tribal government doesn’t want the shipments and has passed laws to stop them.
Energy Fuels has pointed out out it had nothing to do with the old uranium mines and tailings on tribal lands, it simply wants to drive its uranium to Utah.A FOX 13 News database search of hazardous material accidents found no record of a uranium shipment spilling on the Navajo Nation, or anywhere in Utah, Arizona or New Mexico, this century.“We shipped about 300,000 tonnes of uranium ore across the Navajo Nation using many of these same roads between about 2007 and 2015.
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