By Miriam Wasser | Phoenix New Times
A U.S. District Judge has ruled that the uranium mining company, Energy Fuels Inc., can resume operations at Canyon Mine in Northern Arizona.
The decision comes after environmental groups and the Havasupai tribe filed a lawsuit in March 2013 to stop the company from completing construction of the mine and extracting uranium.
Canyon Mine is in Kaibab National Forest, six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and four miles from Red Butte, a designated “Traditional Cultural Property.” Red Butte, and the area around it–including the meadow under which Canyon Mine sits–is sacred land to many Southwest tribes.
