OST shuts down illegal zeolite mine By Brandon Ecoffey Native Sun News Managing Editor MANDERSON –– The Oglala Sioux Tribe has been one of the fiercest opponents of environmentally hazardous natural resource extraction across the country. So when the tribe found out that a mine was in fact operating within the borders of its own reservation, community members and tribal government officials took direct action to shut it down. “We have been fighting hard to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and uranium mining in the Black Hills so it came as a surprise to find out that there was in fact an illegal zeolite mine on the reservation,” said Oglala Sioux Tribal President Bryan Brewer.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:20:47 +0000
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