rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/governor-hobbs-close-pinyon-plain-mine?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-governor-hobbs-close-pinyon-plain-mine' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Wild Arizona https://actionnetwork.org/groups/awc https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/312/081/normal/DiannaSueUqualla.jpeg The people and living waters of Grand Canyon urgently need your help to call on Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to close the Pinyon Plain uranium mine in the newly-designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. The mine, located at the foot of Red Butte, which is an affront to Tribes who hold Red Butte sacred, has already disrupted aquifers during mine shaft excavation, and further threatens to permanently harm aquifers that feed the Grand Canyon’s springs, seeps, and streams, together with all the life that depends on them. Earlier this month Pinyon Plain mine operators began extracting uranium ore in the monument. Past uranium mining left horrific scars on the landscape, damaging sacred sites, harming families, and polluting life-giving springs. The mine is poised to perpetuate that terrible toxic and unjust legacy.   Uranium mining has no place inside a national monument. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has the power to protect the region—and the health and sustainability of numerous human communities, aquifers, plants and animals—from dangerous uranium mining, but she needs to act quickly.   https://actionnetwork.org/letters/governor-hobbs-close-pinyon-plain-mine