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Navajo Nation In Crisis As EPA Tries To Shutter The West’s Largest Coal Plant
dailycaller.com ^ | 5/4/2016 | Joseph Hammond

Posted on 05/04/2016 9:23:42 AM PDT by rktman

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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Indian reservations are self governing in many ways aren’t they?”

Up for debate. A tribe in Kansas refused to recognize state authority and started issuing their own license plates...lawsuits ensued, and I really don’t know how it turned out.


41 posted on 05/04/2016 11:59:36 AM PDT by lacrew
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It has what is probably the cleanest air the the country, but the EPA is worried about it. You can see 60 miles or more, no trouble, but the EPA is concerned. I’d guess the damned idiots in DC have never been to the 4 corners area...


42 posted on 05/04/2016 12:03:03 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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That’s why is said NFW. Which is where it is in the middle of.


43 posted on 05/04/2016 12:13:36 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Enemy of the
People of
America


44 posted on 05/04/2016 12:25:41 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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The air and environment there are among the best anywhere. However the poverty of the families will only get worse under Hillary. These people have their problems but they are very good people and don’t deserve the pain and hunger the progressives and Hillary will inflict on them.


45 posted on 05/04/2016 6:04:14 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: rktman

FUEPA!


46 posted on 05/04/2016 8:04:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: rktman; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...

This article is several weeks old, but useful to show administration actions to shut down efficient power plants in favor of non-fossil fuel sources to the detriment of local employment, in this case Navajos.


47 posted on 05/23/2016 12:58:46 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama's America - where the criminals are victims and the police are the criminals.)
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To: rktman

I drove past that mine a few years ago. There was an enormous excavator out there doing its thing. Coal mining equipment is amazingly large.


48 posted on 05/23/2016 1:19:07 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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The EPA is another entity that needs to be obliterated, along with the IRS and BLM. And probably many more useless make-work departments. *sheesh*

Still trying to rape the Native Americans...


49 posted on 05/23/2016 1:31:20 PM PDT by Monkey Face (We must never allow our burdens to obscure our blessings. Jeffrey R Holland)
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Sometimes the Indians are their own worst enemy. I knew people who were building that plant back in 1974, I also remember when there were two more power plants scheduled to be built, on the Reservation, near Burnham NM. The radical Indians threw a waul eyed fit and got them stopped.

If you will remember, the American Indian Movement was making inroads into the Reservations back then with the Fairchild Corp takeover at Shiprock. They also tried to take over some of the gas wells in that area.

Other plants in Utah scheduled to be built at isolated coal fields were stopped by the Government and Bill Clinton then turned their areas into “National Monuments” to prevent further development.

Meanwhile APS at Hogback (Waterflow, NM ) is still in operation, and there was a nice streak of brown in the atmosphere leading right back to that plant when I was there last year. The APS plant was a nasty plant when I lived there forty years ago.


50 posted on 05/23/2016 1:57:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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