Public Lands, Private Profits: A Grand Threat

Andrew Satter, Jessica Goad, Christy Goldfuss | 2012 | 6 min.

2013 Official Selection

The Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Sierra Club, undertook a series of video mini-documentaries that revealed three places held in the public trust threatened by pending proposals to mine and drill in or around them. In Part One, we head to the Grand Canyon, where a Canadian company is using outdated environmental studies to bring uranium mining back to the one of the world’s most extraordinary natural wonders.