Wednesday August 31, 2022

A mining company and regulators failed to clean up waste from a uranium processing mill in a small New Mexico community. Now the company wants to hand the site over to the Department of Energy — they just need to get rid of the residents first. KZMU speaks with investigative reporter Mark Olalde of ProPublica about his reporting on this story.

Show Notes

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Photo: An aerial view of Grants, New Mexico and areas around the Homestake uranium mill is seen in 2007. Creative Commons/Grants NM aerial 2007 by Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA.

ProPublica: A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making
www.propublica.org/article/new-mex…stake-pollution

John Boomer Arts
www.facebook.com/people/John-Boom…100054373156642/

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making: John Boomer song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_6d-C_HX-s