Slow to see the truth, Biden needs to admit there’s a border crisis Mining interests need to answer questions about Grand Canyon

Once again, President Biden continues to disappoint. On Tuesday he traveled to Arizona to assure the Native American community he has their backs.

Although that is commendable, it is disappointing he didn't take the time to go to the border and see the unlawful mess he created there.

Just as he wouldn’t acknowledge his seventh grandchild (until recent days), he has not acknowledged the crisis at the border. People are dying due to the heat. They’re dying due to fentanyl and human trafficking.

His attitude, as it is with so many other issues, is that there’s nothing to see here.

He may have swayed a few votes with his speech to Native Americans, but his total lack of concern for the self-created mess at the border showed his true lack of leadership.

The Aug. 8 Republic story "New national monument to honor native tribes in Arizona" quotes Curtis Moore, spokesman for Energy Fuels, Inc., saying, "We implore people to follow the science."

The Republic should allow Mr. Moore to explain the science and to answer the following questions:

First, how much water would be used in mining uranium and what is its source?

Second, what will happen to the ore that is extracted? Will uranium tailings be left exposed as they were on the Navajo reservation at the Pueblo of Laguna and on the Spokane Indian reservation in the 1950s and the 1960s? Or will the tailings be cleaned up?

Third, how will the aquifer that supplies drinking water to the Havasupai Indians and drains into the Colorado River be protected from radioactive contamination?

If the water supply for the Havasupai Indians is contaminated by radioactive waste it will destroy their homeland.

Too often, Indian lands have been harmed by mining operations, and the mining companies have abandoned contaminated sites, leaving taxpayers to pay for the cleanup.