PRESS RELEASE – PNM/Avangrid merger: Coalition secures $12.5M in “just transition” funding, pathway to better future for NM fossil-fuel impacted communities Tribal and conservation groups secured significant community investment and other benefits as part of a proposed settlement in the merger case between PNM Resources and Avangrid, an energy company pursuing a transition away from […]
Diné citizens call for respect of Diné Fundamental Law and accountability on economics of coal operations, as they ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear case on coal mine expansion and power plant extension operations Burnham, NM. September. 13, 2019 – The longtime Navajo organization, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, is joining […]
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 […]
Navajo Nation coal gives life — and takes it, some say. ARIZONA DAILY SUN reported, “Together, the facilities are the nation’s two largest plant emitters of nitrogen oxide, which can affect breathing in high concentrations, according to a study by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Scientists found the plants are at the threshold of the […]
HERE AT NAVAJO TRANSITIONAL ENERGY COMPANY’S PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING AT NAVAJO NATION MUSEUM IN WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. What is cost of coal mine operating agreement? SAM WOODS Get back to you. we are in fourth month of operation. What is amount of BHP note (which is the loan that BHP made to NTEC for NTEC […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL SPRING SESSION AT COUNCIL CHAMBER IN WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NAVAJO AREA BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IS NOW GIVING THEIR REPORT. PRESENTERS ARE NAVAJO AREA BIA DIRECTOR SHARON PINTO AND EASTERN NAVAJO BIA AGENCY DIRECTOR LESTER TSOSIE. NAVAJO AREA BIA DIRECTOR SHARON PINTO There have been […]
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 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 […]
HERE AT SHIPROCK CHAPTER SHIPROCK CHAPTER PREZ DUANE “CHILI” YAZZIE Agenda item 8-C: Request for Navajo Attorney General Harrison Tsosie for Opinion on Navajo Council Delegates charges with violations. Money is scary and overpowering. And when someone misuses funds, it’s going to be known and in the future you will be caught. I survived it […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I produced a YouTube video on Navajo Nation Shiprock, N.M., Chapter President Duane “Chili” Yazzie challenging Speaker Johnny Naize and the Navajo Council during their Naa’bik’iyati Committee at the Navajo Council chamber in Window Rock, Ariz., on Dec. 27, 2013. In response, Speaker Naize and the Council called on the tribal police to […]
