In this May 2022 letter to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, the Havasupai Tribe opposes the aquifer protection permit issued to Canyon uranium mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine). The mine sits in a forested meadow in the Kaibab National Forest, near the tribe’s sacred mountain, Red Butte, on the Havasupai Tribe’s ancestral lands. The tribe fears that the mine, which has pierced groundwater, could contaminate the deep aquifer that feeds Grand Canyon seeps and springs and provides drinking water for the Havasupai people. Read the letter ›
