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“Navajo Nation continues to push for end to livestock impoundments despite Hopi chairman’s refusal to meet with Navajo Nation leaders “

PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation continues to push for end to livestock impoundments despite Hopi chairman’s refusal to meet with Navajo Nation leaders WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (11-7-14) – On Oct. 30, Speaker Pro Tem LoRenzo Bates (Nenahnezad, Newcomb, San Juan, Tiis Tsoh Sikaad, Tse’Daa’Kaan, Upper Fruitland) and President Ben Shelly issued a joint letter addressed […]

Scratching backs for coal

Greetings Relatives/Frens, Navajo Nation Council Delegate LoRenzo Bates, who is the Budget & Finance Committee chairperson and Investment Committee member, and Council Delegate Roscoe Smith, who is the Resources & Development Committee vice chairperson, have slid their legislation 0305-13, $4.1 million for Navajo Transitional Energy Company, through the legislative process. And if the Budget & […]

Farmington Daily Times story on BHP coal mine press conference

Greetings Relatives/Frens! I’m sharing a story from Farmington Daily Times news reporter Noel Smith about yesterday’s press conference involving Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, Speaker Johnny Naize and Council Delegate LoRenzo Bates, who is also the Budget & Finance Committee chairperson at the Upper Fruitland Chapter near Farmington, N.M. I’m posting her story and the […]

Prez Shelly: No veto of $4.1 m. for NTEC if Energy Policy approved

PRESS CONFERENCE ON NAVAJO NATION PURCHASE OF BHP BILLITON COAL MINE STARTS AT 11:12 AM AT THE UPPER FRUITLAND CHAPTER NAVAJO COUNCIL DELEGATE LORENZO BATES We’re here to find out if the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch are still together on the purchase of the BHP coal mine, which would provide revenue stream to the […]