HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL, WHERE DEBATE CONTINUES ON LEGISLATION 0367-13, WHICH IS RELATED TO BHP COAL MINE. DELEGATE WALTER PHLEPS We have committed ourselves by giving birth to NTEC. Wat are we to tell Office of Surface Mining about requirement for this reclamation and performance insurance and bond. It’s like owning car. If you don’t […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL, WHERE DEBATING LEGISLATION 0367-13, WHICH IS REALTED TO BHP COAL MINE. DELEGATE ALTON SHEPHERD HOW will performance bond be paid? DELEGATE BATES based on the schedule provided to us, I got controller involved so what getting is revenue projections in event legislation fails and to right is needed money/revenue. can see […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL, DEBATE OVER LEGISLATION 0367-13 CONTINUES. DELEGATE DANNY SIMPSON Explain why need insurance. NTEC STEVE GUNDERSON there are two bonds and two insurance contracts. one is reclamation bond which is requirement of Office of Surface MIning and that mine owner obtain permit carry reclamation bond so NTEC as perspective owner has obligation […]
Here at Navajo Council where debating Legislation 0367-13 regarding BHP coal mine. DELEGATE EDMUND YAZZIE We talk about protecting sovereign immunity and we talk almost every session about BHP and I’ll support. But I thot we dealt with issue. We ned to finish job instead of returning. Listen to colleagues talk about fairness in legislation […]
Motion by Smith and Apachito SPONSOR NAVAJO COUNCIL DELEGATE LORENZO BATES I want to emphasize to colleagues that insurance not for BHP, for us, NTEC, who are, will be the owners. It has nothing to do with BHP. We are the owners and it’s required. It’s unfortunate that thru this process to complete the acquisition […]
Here at Naa’bik’iyati Committee where Naabi approved Legislation 0367-13, which waives 100 percent of tribal sovereign immunity, allows Navajo Transitional Energy Company to use New Mexico and Arizona courts to resolve disputes regarding reclamation insurance, and for NTEC to obtain a bond/loan for its reclamation insurance for coal mine and operation of coal that NTEC […]
Dine’ Citizens Against Ruining the Environment is having a press conference today, Dec. 23, 2013, at noon in front of the Navajo Nation Council chamber in Window Rock, Ariz. -WHAT: PRESS Conference on BHP Navajo Mine acquisition -WHEN: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 12:00pm -WHERE: Navajo Nation Council Chambers, Window Rock, AZ -WHO: Diné C.A.R.E. […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I have a message from a very good fren/sister, Eloise Brown-Dixon, who has stood up against coal mining since former Navajo Nation President Shirley and then Vice President Ben Shelly tried to establish a coal-fire generating station on Burnham, N.M., which is in the eastern part of the Navajo Reservation and near the […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Human, I didn’t make it out to Twin Arrows Casino & Resort for the Navajo Council’s Budget & Finance Committee meeting and then the Naa’bik’iyati Committee today. And apparently I didn’t miss anything because the B&F never got a quorum so there was no debate or action taken on Legislation 0367-13, which is all […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, The Navajo Council’s Resources & Development Committee has called a SPECIAL meeting on Monday, Dec. 23, to address RDC member Delegate Leonard Tsosie’s proposed legislation 0373-13 which allow Uranium Resources Inc. to set up a Demonstration In-Situ Uranium Mining Project in Church Rock, N.M. and to create a RDC Sub-Committee of two RDC […]
