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Special RDC meeting related to BHP coal mine purchase

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Human, I looked online and the Navajo Council’s Resources & Development Committee is having a SPECIAL meeting AT 10 AM TODAY, 12-19-13, at the Navajo Council chamber, Window Rock, and the only item on their agenda is LEGISLATION 0367-13: An action relating to Resources and Development, Budget and Finance and Naabik’iyati’ approving an alternative […]

Navajo Council Naa’bik’iyati Committee Dec. 20

The Navajo Human Rights Commission is taking a break from their public hearings on Navajo gender violence and Violence against Navajo women and Navajo LGBTQs. The hearing ends at 5 pm here at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz. The next hearing is Jan. 15, 2014, at the Tuba City, Ariz., Chapter and […]

Tune into KTNN radio at 6 pm and Contact US EPA about Navajo Generating Station

TONIGHT at 6 pm on KTNN 660 AM Radio, Marshall Johnson of To’ Nizhoni Ani (Beautiful Water Speaks) will discuss U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act provision to regulate Nitrogen Oxide/NOx emissions by implementing the Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) for Navajo Generating Station (NGS) in five years. NGS has negatively impacted the Navajo […]

Public hearings, Land conference, Xmas shutdown & Twin Arrows Casino/Resort

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, It’s a busy week for the Navajo Council’s standing committees and other tribal government entities. A reminder the Navajo Human Rights Commission is having its first of three public hearings tomorrow, Dec. 18, 2013, at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz., from 8 am to 5 pm. The hearings are “to […]

Proposed Navajo legislation: Demonstration in-situ Uranium project at Church Rock, NM

The language of this proposed Navajo Council’s Resources & Development Committee legislation to approve a Demonstration Project for In-Situ Uranium mining at Church Rock, N.M., by URI (Uranium Resources Inc.) and to create a RDC Subcommittee of two RDC members to work with the Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources […]

Navajo Council disapproves $220 million Bond

Navajo Council votes on $220 million Bond at 1:56 pm – as lunch is being delivered… Speaker Naize says that 16 yes votes are needed and that there are 16 delegates on the floor. 9 in favor, 7 opposed so Legislation fails to be approved. COUNCIL adjourns at 1:58 pm Under Navajo law, the Council […]

Navajo Council votes down $2 million for Green Projects

Here at Navajo Council special session for $220 million Bond. DELEGATE KATHERINE BENALLY Delegate Elmer Begay asked about community recommending Capital Improvement Projects and that was done. And then another letter was sent out to Delegates and local government officials for their CIP recommendations. And those were reviewed and included in list of projects to […]

Navajo government needs to listen to people

Speaker Naize is presiding. Council voting on adopting agenda. 14 in favor, 0 opposed. Members of the Council, we are on Legislation 0213. This particular legislation has been discussed so with that I want to take this to Sponsor, Delegate Katherine Benally: I’ve taken a lot of your time in previous meetings and I’ll repeat […]