2023-08-08 22:50:00
DISPATCH — Traveling to the southwestern United States for three days, Joe Biden begins his campaign for 2024 by sanctuarying a large area around the Grand Canyon (Arizona) to protect it from uranium mining.
400,000 hectares around the Grand Canyon, this is the extent of the area that the American president will classify among the “national monuments”. As explained Pointthe term designates an area whose natural wealth, but also the historical significance as well as the economic interest, have earned it special protection from the federal state, particularly in the face of any industrial or mining activity.
For the occasion, this same area will be renamed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni: Baaj Nwaajo, in the language of the Havasupai Indians, means “the land of the tribes”, while I’tah Kukveni, in the Hopi language, means: ” In the footsteps of our ancestors. In doing so, Joe Biden shows that he wants to honor the demands of local tribes, who notably wanted to protect their land from uranium mining.
It will therefore be done, almost… No new contract will be signed, but the president specified that the rights to exploit this territory which are in progress will run until their term, that is until 2032.
For him, this announcement is above all a way of scoring points with his ecologist electorate, because Arizona is a highly contested territory between Democrats and Republicans. Joe Biden won it in 2020 by less than a percentage point ahead of Donald Trump, himself the winner four years earlier with 3.5 percentage points. In 2024, it will therefore be a key state, a place of promise.
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