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Fri Oct 10

• Moab meeting set on Atlas tailings - Salt Lake Tribune: Plans to clean up the Atlas tailings pile outside Moab are the subject of a meeting planned Thursday by the U.S. Energy Department. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at Moab's Grand Center, 182 N. 500 West. The public will be updated about what is being done to begin hauling the 16 million tons of tailings and other uranium-ore-pr ocessing waste from the banks of the Colorado north of Moab to a newly constructed disposal site 32 miles north at Crescent Junction. - Judy Fahys Advertisement Return to Top

Tue Sep 30

• Independent: Tribes want action on Tuba City dump site: The Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe are tired of investigations of the Tuba City Open Dump. They want it cleaned up. Studies since 1999 have indicated the presence of uranium and other metals in the dump and shallow groundwater exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards. The tribes have repeatedly indicated that clean closure ? or excavation, removal and off-site disposal of all buried wastes ? is the only acceptable option to prevent future contamination.

Sun Sep 28

• MiningWatch > There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds: There are no clean diamonds. Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it. We want to ensu

Sun Sep 14

• Deseret News | Rail memo signed for Moab tailings: nergySolutions and Union Pacific Railroad struck an agreement Monday for rail services and upgrades to an existing line that will support moving about 16 million tons of uranium-mill tailings over the next 20 years away from their current location near the Colorado River and Moab. The Department of Energy announced Tuesday that the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding to ready a rail line between the tailings pile and the new 250-acre disposal site at Crescent Junction 30 miles away in time to start moving the waste next spring.

Wed Sep 10

• Norwegian Govt fund blacklists Rio Tinto [over Grasberg in PNG] - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Thu Sep 4

• Worker killed at oilsands tailings pond

Thu Aug 21

• GAO: Report on DOE's Uranium Tailings Cleanup Program: This is a PDF file with graphics as well as a full December 1995 Report on the status of the agencies cleanup of major tailings sites across the Rockies.

Fri Aug 8

• The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: Moab Uranium Riding the Rails: Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DOE) reaffirmed its prior decision to relocate the uranium mill tailings predominantly by rail from Moab, Utah. The tailings will be trained from the banks of the Colorado River 30 miles north to Crescent Junction, Utah. DOE may still consider using truck transport under certain circumstances, but it won't be the primary mode of transportation for the contaminated pile. Annotated link http://www.dii go.com/bookmar k/http%3A%2F%2 Fpogoblog.type pad.com%2Fpogo %2F2008%2F08%2 Fmoab-uranium- ri.html
• DOE confirms it will move contaminated Moab tailings by rail, not truck - Salt Lake Tribune: About 16 million tons of mill tailings abutting the Colorado River near Moab will be moved by rail to a permanent disposal site, the Department of Energy said Tuesday, reaffirming a decision not to ship the contaminated uranium mill tailings by truck along rural roads. "After evaluating the alternatives for safely transporting the mill tailings from Moab and considering input received from citizens in the Moab community and surrounding areas, [the Department of Energy] has decided to ship the tailings using the existing Union Pacific Railroad track," Assistant Energy Secretary for Environmental Management James A. Rispoli said in a news release. "We believe our decision will be most protective of the community over the long term."

Fri Jul 4

• Tailings tab could top $1 billion - Salt Lake Tribune: The cost of hauling away the Moab tailings by 2019 could exceed $1 billion, according to the latest estimate by the U.S. Energy Department, the agency managing the cleanup.

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