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Arizona Daily Star
November 19, 2017
As a politically active, indigenous woman living in Arizona's ... for having pushed for the removal of federal protections for Oak Flat, land sacred ...
Willcox Range News
November 2, 2017
... the land swap with Resolution Copper, which will impact Oak Flat. ... Arizona should take the lead,” including becoming a hub of solar panel manufacturing. ... the jobs we have in southern Arizona, including Fort Huachuca.
Eastern Arizona Courier
October 25, 2017
... the crowd at Oak Flat in 2015 to contact senators and congressmen to repeal the ... The objections, along with the Legal Notice, the Tonto National ... The Oct. 20 publication of the Legal Notice in the Arizona Capitol Times ...
Indian Country Today Media Network
September 2, 2017
Raul Grivalja, D-Arizona, on a new bill in Congress to repeal the ... firms Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to acquire the lands including Oak Flat and ...
Navajo-Hopi Observer
April 4, 2017
Protestors of Oak Flat Mine start walking on an early February morning. ... lands, supporters say mining is an economic boon for Arizona.
Arizona Daily Wildcat
February 21, 2017
Located east of Phoenix in the Tonto National Forest, Oak Flat is an ... “Arizona and the indigenous lands seem to be a main target for the greed of ... Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, Resolution Copper has wanted Oak Flat for over ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
February 12, 2017
Oak Flat, located four miles east of Superior, Arizona in the Tonto National Forest, is a desert riparian area of land that attracts bikers, hikers, ...
Navajo-Hopi Observer
January 10, 2017
These can be spotted west from the Oak Flat campground near the ... Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, to perform mining operations in Oak Flat in ... plan of operations to the U.S. Forest Service's Tonto National Forest. ... Company leaders propose exchanging eight land parcels across Arizona for mining Oak Flat.
Arizona Capitol Times
December 21, 2016
These can be spotted west from the Oak Flat campground near the town of Superior. ... Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, to perform mining operations in Oak Flat in ... John McCain, R-Arizona, was able to add the Resolution provisions to ... its plan of operations to the U.S. Forest Service's Tonto National Forest.
Phoenix New Times
March 22, 2016
Environmental Study of Planned Copper Mine at Arizona's Oak Flat ... RCM, with majority ownership by Australia's Rio Tinto company, has ...
azcentral.com
July 10, 2015
Oak Flat sits 7,000 feet above what Resolution says is one of the largest .... Resolution, a subsidiary of the British-Australian mining giants Rio Tinto ... "We'll get a crater and a pile of tailings," said Curt Shannon, Arizona policy ...
azcentral.com
July 10, 2015
Oak Flat sits 7,000 feet above what Resolution says is one of the largest .... Resolution, a subsidiary of the British-Australian mining giants Rio Tinto ... "We'll get a crater and a pile of tailings," said Curt Shannon, Arizona policy ...
Indian Country Today Media Network
September 2, 2017
Raul Grivalja, D-Arizona, on a new bill in Congress to repeal the ... firms Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to acquire the lands including Oak Flat andÃÂ ...
Indian Country Today Media Network
September 1, 2017
Naelyn continues to fight for the protection of Oak Flat. Naelyn is ... Jennifer Himel is of Hopi tribe of Arizona, from the village of Tewa. She isÃÂ ...
Copper Basin News
August 31, 2017
The Tonto National Forest has announced that an Environmental Assessment has been ... 60 and on the west side of the Oak Flat area.
Arizona Silver Belt
August 30, 2017
SUPERIOR — The Tonto National Forest has announced that an ... town of Superior South of U.S. highway 60 and west of the Oak Flat area.
Navajo-Hopi Observer
April 4, 2017
Protestors of Oak Flat Mine start walking on an early February morning. ... lands, supporters say mining is an economic boon for Arizona.
KCET
March 6, 2017
Oak Flat in Arizona—sacred to the San Carlos Apache—is still ... copper mine to be built by Resolution Copper, a division of Rio Tinto, one ofÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
February 21, 2017
Located east of Phoenix in the Tonto National Forest, Oak Flat is an ... “Arizona and the indigenous lands seem to be a main target for the greed of ... Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, Resolution Copper has wanted Oak Flat for overÃÂ ...
Fronteras: The Changing America Desk
February 13, 2017
A craggy mountain hovers over the eastern edge of Superior, Arizona. In the mid-1800s settlers encroached on this land. As the story is told byÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
February 12, 2017
Oak Flat, located four miles east of Superior, Arizona in the Tonto National Forest, is a desert riparian area of land that attracts bikers, hikers,ÃÂ ...
Navajo-Hopi Observer
January 10, 2017
These can be spotted west from the Oak Flat campground near the ... Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, to perform mining operations in Oak Flat in ... plan of operations to the U.S. Forest Service's Tonto National Forest. ... Company leaders propose exchanging eight land parcels across Arizona for mining Oak Flat.
Arizona Capitol Times
December 21, 2016
These can be spotted west from the Oak Flat campground near the town of ... Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, to perform mining operations in Oak Flat in exchange for other land in Arizona. ... Prior to the bill passing, Resolution submitted its plan of operations to the U.S. Forest Service's Tonto National Forest.
Huffington Post
September 28, 2015
... orchestrating the sale of Oak Flat, an Apache holy site located in Arizona's Tonto National Forest, to foreign mining conglomerates Rio TintoÃÂ ...
azcentral.com
July 10, 2015
Oak Flat sits 7,000 feet above what Resolution says is one of the largest .... Resolution, a subsidiary of the British-Australian mining giants Rio Tinto ... "We'll get a crater and a pile of tailings," said Curt Shannon, Arizona policyÃÂ ...
ColorLines magazine
March 15, 2017
... Indigenous fossil fuel battles across the country like the Seminole Tribe's fight against the Sabal Trail Pipeline in Florida, which will also run through Cardenas' home base of Georgia, or the Apache resistance against mining Oak Flat for copper ...
Cronkite News
March 13, 2017
Protestors of Oak Flat mining started walking on an early February morning. Protesters believe the mining damages sacred lands; supporters say mining is an economic boon in Arizona. (Photo by Shania Alba/Cronkite News)ÃÂ ...
Link TV
March 6, 2017
Consider two particularly high profile cases, the San Francisco Peaks and Oak Flat controversies. In the years-long San Francisco Peaks battle in Arizona, numerous tribes failed to stop the expansion of a ski resort on National Forest Service land ...
Eastern Arizona Courier
February 24, 2017
SUPERIOR - "I have been doing this for my whole life, even when I was young. It is a combination of my parents, ancestors and who I am, and the fact that we are on a reservation which was a prison for our people.
Democracy Now!
February 24, 2017
So we had bills in the Congress and bills in the Senate that were trying to stop what was happening to Oak Flat. AMY GOODMAN: And Senator Flake was a lobbyist for Rio Tinto before he became a senator for Arizona? MICHELLE LATIMER: Yeah. SorryÃÂ ...
Fronteras: The Changing America Desk
February 13, 2017
Oak Flat Campground is on the Tonto National Forest. The Apaches consider it their ancestral land. As the crow flies it's ... A craggy mountain hovers over the eastern edge of Superior, Arizona. In the mid-1800s settlers encroached on this land. As the ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat
February 12, 2017
Oak Flat, located four miles east of Superior, Arizona in the Tonto National Forest, is a desert riparian area of land that attracts bikers, hikers, bird watchers and campers.
Prescott Daily Courier
February 11, 2017
In eastern Arizona within the Tonto National Forest east of Phoenix near Superior, lies Oak Flat, a place where birders, campers, climbers, and hikers value the beauty of the land and Native American tribes consider sacred.
Construction Equipment Guide
February 6, 2017
After months of regularly scheduled blasting closures, those using U.S. 60 between Superior and Globe now have an eastbound passing lane on the grade between Oak Flat and Devil's Canyon (mileposts 230 to 232). Other improvements along this stretch ...
Arizona Capitol Times
December 21, 2016
In December 2014, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the fiscal 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, which authorized Resolution, a Phoenix-based affiliate of foreign mining companies Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, to perform mining ...
Mesa Legend
December 10, 2016
It begins by showing the San Carlos Apace reservation located in Southeastern Arizona. Like the situation in Standing Rock, the San Carlos people are in conflict with Senator John McCain, whose dealings with British-owned mining corporations threaten ...
ThinkProgress
December 8, 2016
The legal battle over Arizona's Oak Flat region, which pits the Resolution Copper company against the Apache tribe, is also centered around NHPA and NEPA - an ominous sign for its legal future.
Mesa Independent
December 7, 2016
To protect crews working on an Arizona Department of Transportation project along U.S. Highway 60 near Superior, westbound commercial trucks will be required to stop for brake checks in the Oak Flat area beginning Tuesday, Dec. 6. Trucks with ...
Broadcaster
December 6, 2016
... a century have come together to protect their water from the "black snake" of the Dakota Access Pipeline; "Apache Stronghold," focusing on Arizona's San Carlos Apache tribe and their stand to protect the sacred lands of Oak Flat; and "Red Power ...
Phoenix New Times
December 6, 2016
The event also seeks to raise awareness about the resistance to the 202 expansion, as well as opposition to mining at Oak Flat and treatment of wastewater at the San Francisco Peaks, two other sacred sites in Arizona. Jose says he expected the PhoenixÃÂ ...
Eastern Arizona Courier
December 4, 2016
PHOENIX - To protect crews working on an Arizona Department of Transportation project along U.S. Highway 60 near Superior, westbound commercial trucks will be required to stop for brake checks in the Oak Flat area beginning Tuesday, Dec. 6.
KVOA Tucson News
December 2, 2016
The Arizona Department of Transportation says trucks will be required to stop for checks in the Oak Flat area. Trucks that have bad brakes pose safety hazards to workers along the road because the grade is steep.
Albuquerque Journal
December 2, 2016
Bernie Sanders' Save Oak Flat Act to prevent the privatization of the Tonto National Forest and Oak Flat land sacred to the San Carlos Apaches.
Workers World
November 30, 2016
In Arizona, crooked politicians such as Sen. John McCain brokered a deal to hand over the sacred Oak Flat area to a mining company, but the San Carlos Apache have been fighting against that.
Indian Country Today Media Network
November 30, 2016
Most of us don't even have running water or electricity, yet it's our coal that powers all of Arizona, Nevada and southern California.
Baltimore Post-Examiner
November 25, 2016
This unrelenting pattern of environmental racism was seen in the planning of the Keystone XL, and more recently at Oak Flat in Arizona where Senator McCain put a midnight rider on a bill to allow foreign copper mining company Rio TintoÃÂ ...
Hyperallergic
November 23, 2016
... which sold away the sacred site of Oak Flat, on the Apache San Carlos Reservation in San Carlos, Arizona, to an Australian company to mine copper ore.
Arizona Daily Star
November 12, 2016
Tucson pastor arrested at North Dakota pipeline protest. By Curt Prendergast Arizona Daily Star .... Native Americans still make up a significant portion of the congregation and the church has supported protests at Wounded Knee in 1973 and at Oak Flat ...
Truth-Out
September 24, 2016
... established in 1872 in Arizona, are fighting a proposed copper mine in the Tonto National Forest, which forms the western border of their reservation lands.
Arizona Public Media
September 23, 2016
Oak Flat, east of Superior, is where Resolution Copper proposes to build a large underground mine. ... Resolution Copper Mining is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. It's planning to construct a large copper mine on Tonto National Forest land.
