Navajo Nation leaders are blasting the transport of uranium ore across the reservation to a Utah mill while the energy firm that handled the move says it was safe.
<p>WINDOW ROCK, Arizona — Leaders in the Navajo Nation are crying foul after a truck hauling uranium ore traversed the reservation on Tuesday on its way from Arizona to Utah .
</p><p>"They snuck through the Navajo Nation, and they made it onto the Utah side, outside of the reservation," Buu Nygren, the Navajo Nation president, said in a statement. "To me, they operated covertly to travel the Navajo Nation illegally."</p><p>It's a touchy issue in the Navajo Nation, the officials say, given the adverse impact uranium mining has had on the Navajo people over the years. "Our Navajo people have suffered for many years, and many lost their lives due to uranium mining on our homelands. The Navajo Nation will continue to oppose and fight against the transportation of uranium ore through our lands for the health and safety of our people," said Crystalyne Curley, speaker of the Navajo Nation Council.</p><p>A representative from Lakewood, Colorado-based Energy Fuels, meanwhile, rebuffed suggestions that transporting the uranium ore poses a safety risk and said the shipment was carried out legally. The product was transported Tuesday from the Pinyon Plain Mine in Tusayan, Arizona, through the Navajo Nation where northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico and southeastern Utah meet on its way to the White&#x
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