Court Rejects Plan to Expand New Mexico Coal Mine | Western Environmental Law Center. WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER – U.S. District Judge John L. Kane held that the OSM environmental assessment approving the 2012 expansion violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by ignoring harms resulting from the mine expansion including toxic mercury pollution from […]
Here at Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources Energy Summit at Twin Arrows Casino & Resort. Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly is speaking. We are being told not to burn coal. so maybe we should export coal. china and even russia came over. we’ve done international trade with NAPI. We were told not to sell […]
Interior Department Proposes to Keep Burning Dirty, Dangerous Coal at Four Corners Power Plant in New Mexico. Communities and power companies throughout the United States are moving away from coal power to avoid devastating climate change and other pollution dangers. Historic owners at Four Corners Power Plant are leaving, including Southern California Edison and El […]
Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee, without debates, votes 10 in favor, 2 opposed, on LEGISLATION 0246-13: confirming Beverly Becenti-Pigman to Navajo Nation Human Rights Research Review Board. Committee now on LEGISLATION 0090-14, supporting the Navajo Nation’s and Crow Tribe’s combined and collaborative efforts to energy, supporting the U.S. Congress’s permanent extension of the Indian Coal Production […]
Navajo Council questioning KPMG about its audit of the 2012 Navajo government operating budget. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Add all trust funds expended and it’s about $14 million. There are students trying to get $100 scholarship. And here we are spending $14 million without return. Why is audit findings of Gaming Enterprise/Twin Arrows Casino losing money […]
Here at Meeting of Dine’ Minds “Restoring Communication and Underestanding Within Our Nation.” DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Name of game is shale oil and my communities are having to deal with it. And one thing for sure, none of you is jumping on horses. You’ll flip on your lights. You’ll use natural gas or electricity to […]
Here at Navajo Nation Museum where “Meeting of Dine’ Minds is presenting People’s Public Forum for Restoring Communication and Understanding Within Our Nation. I’m really happy that several Navajo Nation Council delegates showed up to answer questions from people attending this forum. The delegates that were on this morning’s panel were Delegates Leonard Tsosie, Russell […]
GREETING RELATIVES/FRENS/HUMANS, I THOUGHT THIS WAS POSTED LAST NIGHT BUT APPARENTLY IT WENT INTO THE DRAFT FOLDER. SO HERE IT IS. THE VOTE TO AUTHORIZE CHILI TO FILE INJUNCTION AGAINST BHP COAL MINE BUY WAS ABOUT 10 PM, LAST NIGHT, DEC. 6, 2014! HERE AT SHIPROCK CHAPTER MEETING WHERE EXCITING AND AMAZING DEBATE HAPPENING OVER […]
Still here at Shiprock, NM, chapter meeting… SHIPROCK CHAPTER PRESIDENT DUANE “CHILI” YAZZIE And now we need to address and vote on resolution that authorizes “Duane H. Yazzie to file a petition for injunction on the Navajo Nation purchase of the BHP mine in Shiprock District Court.” Here is an example, if your car stall […]
HERE AT SHIPROCK CHAPTER… SHIPROCK COMMUNITY MEMBER FANNIE ETCITTY I remember when we, as children, wud be punished for speaking our language with lye soap put into our mouths. And as we talk about BHP, I ask where we will get scholarships for our students. BHP helped 40 of our students. Students are always asking […]
