The company that owns a uranium mine near the southern edge of the Grand Canyon has resumed trucking ore from its site.

This follows an agreement with Navajo authorities last month, which will allow freight to exceed reservations.

The energy-fueled representative confirms that the two trucks left Pinion Plain Mine on Wednesday, heading to White Mesa Mill in southern Utah.

“Energy fuels have transported hundreds of thousands of tons of uranium ore across Navajo countries in thousands of trucks over the past 20 years, but accidents and accidents have led to the release of ore and impact communities along the route. It wasn’t,” he said. Curtis Moore, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at Energy Fuels.

Moore says the truck has arrived at its destination unstable.

The shipment passed through several Northern Arizona communities, including Flagstaff and Williams, and across a large strip of Navajo tribes along U.S. Expressways 89 and 160.

The tribal Environmental Protection Agency inspected Cameron’s load before Cameron was allowed to reserve.

Navajo EPA officials hope to leave the mine site throughout the remaining month, where two trucks per day could increase to four.

Two weeks ago, Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels agreed to restart the cargo, but only at certain times of the day. Last summer, President Navajo Buu Nigren I was threatened After the tribe is not given notice of shipment, pulls the ore truck back from the mine. The Navajos banned uranium carrying across the land in 2012.

The Pinion Plain Mine is the only active uranium mine in the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral footprint of Grand Canyon National Monument. President Joe Biden designated it in 2023, but the mine was allowed to continue operating.

Indigenously-led groups are no! They continued to oppose the transport of uranium ore across the Navajo tribe, protesting at several sites along the transport route on Wednesday. Flagstaff officials also pushed back and released the online statement in response to updated shipments.

“The Flagstaff City Council continues to defend uranium mining and transport within and through our area, including passing multiple resolutions and supporting federal laws restricting the mining and transport of uranium. “The Flagstaff City Council opposes the transport of uranium ore through our community, but the Council has no jurisdiction over federal or state highways.”

Other local officials are also resistant to transporting uranium ore. Last year, the Coconino County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution opposed to national monuments, Grand Canyon National Park, local basins and cargo near aircraft.

“Uranium mining within the boundaries of the National Monument does not provide any meaningful benefits to the county’s quest for energy independence, is compatible with cultural values, poses substantial environmental risks, and tribal lands and homelands. It will harm the aquifers, Springs and streams of the Grand Canyon, given the threat of the Havaspey people’s homelands and repeated threats.” Solved.