{"id":12360,"date":"2020-06-05T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altitude.news\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:26:04","slug":"660-tonnes-dechets-radioactifs-bear-ears-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altitude.news\/business\/2020\/06\/05\/660-tonnes-dechets-radioactifs-bear-ears-national-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"660 tonnes de d\u00e9chets radioactifs dans les souvenirs d\u2019une r\u00e9serve prot\u00e9g\u00e9e !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bear Ears, en fran\u00e7ais \u00ab\u00a0oreilles d\u2019ours\u00a0\u00bb. Ces oreilles d\u2019ours sont en fait deux buttes, dans l’Utah (USA), d\u00e9passant les 2.700 m\u00e8tres d\u2019altitude et surplombant le plateau du Colorado. Observ\u00e9e \u00e0 distance, la perspective fait effectivement penser \u00e0 des oreilles de plantigrades\u2026 En 2016, Barack Obama cr\u00e9e un parc de plus de 500.000 hectares pour prot\u00e9ger la r\u00e9gion. Baptis\u00e9s Bear Ears National Monument, ces lieux sont sacr\u00e9s pour plusieurs tribus am\u00e9rindiennes. Pouss\u00e9 par le lobby de l\u2019extraction mini\u00e8re, Donald Trump a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de r\u00e9duire la surface prot\u00e9g\u00e9e en 2017<\/a>. Le lobbyiste derri\u00e8re cette d\u00e9cision n\u2019\u00e9tait autre qu\u2019Andrew Wheeler, depuis devenu le responsable de l\u2019EPA. L\u2019Agence f\u00e9d\u00e9rale am\u00e9ricaine de Protection de l\u2019Environnement. Un joli message de Washington D.C. s\u2019agissant de la politique environnementale \u00e0 mettre en \u0153uvre\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une r\u00e9serve amput\u00e9e, tout comme la r\u00e9glementation\u2026<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Amput\u00e9 de quelques 85%, Bear Ears a surtout vu autoris\u00e9s l\u2019extraction mini\u00e8re et les forages. Cette nouvelle d\u00e9cision de l\u2019administration am\u00e9ricaine date de f\u00e9vrier 2020. Au passage, l\u2019obligation faite aux industriels de nettoyer et d\u00e9contaminer les sites miniers apr\u00e8s leur passage, apparue sous Obama, a disparu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pourquoi Bear Ears est particuli\u00e8rement vis\u00e9\u00a0? Car dans cette r\u00e9gion quasi-d\u00e9sertique, on trouve des r\u00e9serves\u2026 d\u2019uranium\u00a0! Et ce n\u2019est pas nouveau, \u00e0 quelques dizaines de minutes de route des fameuses oreilles d\u2019ours, l\u2019usine de White Mesa fonctionne depuis 38 ans. Au-del\u00e0 de son activit\u00e9 d\u2019appui \u00e0 des mines d\u2019uranium du pays, c\u2019est surtout une usine de retraitement de d\u00e9chets radioactifs. A ce titre, elle re\u00e7oit des containers venus de tout le pays. Les restes de produits contamin\u00e9s sont stock\u00e9s sur le site, ad vitam. Depuis des d\u00e9cennies, les tribus am\u00e9rindiennes vivant dans la r\u00e9gion se soucient de l\u2019impact de l\u2019usine sur leur sant\u00e9. Notamment via la contamination de l\u2019eau et de l\u2019air. Les b\u00e2ches plastiques recouvrant les fosses d\u2019enfouissement \u00e9tant \u00ab\u00a0obsol\u00e8tes\u00a0\u00bb, aux dires des repr\u00e9sentants des tribus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le business du retraitement des d\u00e9chets europ\u00e9ens\u00a0!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A ce stade, les industriels ne se pressent pas au portillon pour ouvrir de nouvelles mines explique le Los Angeles Times (en anglais)<\/em><\/a>. S\u2019il est tr\u00e8s co\u00fbteux et incertain de se lancer dans l\u2019exploitation de nouvelles mines, les industriels de l\u2019uranium pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer les infimes particules du pr\u00e9cieux m\u00e9tal dans des d\u00e9chets contamin\u00e9s. Une expertise rare dont dispose l\u2019usine de White Mesa. Des d\u00e9chets arrivent de plusieurs r\u00e9gions des Etats-Unis pour traitement. Mais pas seulement. L\u2019Estonie est sur les rangs pour exp\u00e9dier jusqu\u2019\u00e0 660 tonnes de d\u00e9chets toxiques par an aux portes de Bear Ears (Adventure Journal, en anglais<\/em><\/a>) . Le projet n\u2019est pas encore d\u00e9finitivement ficel\u00e9 mais il est en bonne voie. Il entra\u00eenerait l\u2019attribution \u00e0 l\u2019usine de White Mesa d\u2019une licence pour enterrer de si grandes quantit\u00e9s de d\u00e9chets dans le sous-sol de la r\u00e9gion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un pays europ\u00e9en est donc \u00e0 deux doigts d\u2019exp\u00e9dier des centaines de tonnes de d\u00e9chets contamin\u00e9s dans une r\u00e9gion dans laquelle \u2013 il y a peu \u2013 il \u00e9tait encore question de protection de l\u2019environnement.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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