Is a Uranium mill in Utah making tribal members sick? They’ll find out in 2025
“Michael Badback is a tribal member whose family has lived in the community of White Mesa, about five miles from the mill, for generations. But now they’re increasingly worried they won’t be able to preserve their way of life into the future.
‘This is still virgin land, and we want it to remain that way,’ says Badback. ‘That’s how our ancestors used to walk on this land. We want to walk on it like that and leave the legacy up to our grandchildren.’
Badback and others are opposed to the production and storage of radioactive materials at the Energy Fuels site.
‘We don’t know the health issues that come along with this stuff,’ he says. ‘A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick. Kids and other adults started to have asthma like they never had before.'”