Posted on 04/01/2017 8:22:54 AM PDT by davikkm
The Navajo people are apparently all for coal production and good energy policy. They’re happy that Trump is undoing Obama’s restrictive policies in this area, too.
Breitbart reports:
EXCLUSIVE: Navajos Celebrate End of Obama’s Job-Killing Energy Policies: Trump Offers ‘Unwavering Support’ for Coal
Former President Barack Obama’s efforts to shut down the coal industry in the United States have threatened the well-being of generations of coal plant and mine workers, including those of the Navajo Nation.
The Navajo Generating Station and the Kayenta Mine on Navajo land in Arizona has directly and indirectly provided 3,100 jobs and $180 million in annual income to workers and their families.
The lease agreements, royalties, and other payments are tied to the plant and mine account for approximately 20 percent of Navajo Nation annual general fund revenue, with the money used to fund schools, emergency services, infrastructure, and public parks.
All Americans are winning under Trump. Except maybe those who hate America...
Obama was poison to Native Americans...
Yup. It’s all they’ve got: Page, Arizona wouldn’t exist without the power plant (Navajo Generating Station). Where do the idiots in Los Angeles think the electrons come from?
Isn’t it amazing that Rat politicians are obsessed with Mexico and China but ignore real indigenous people right here?
I can’t tell you how big the Navajo Generating Station is for Arizona. When Obama first came in, the generating station in Laughlin, NV closed down and subsequently was taken down by implosion. My town, Bullhead City, AZ across the Colorado River was the main supplier of labor. We have never really recovered from that loss of jobs.
What about the thousands of islamic jihadis that Obama moved to the reservations? No one knew what they were about save breeding out the natives and taking their land.
His response was something like "Before I answer, ma'am, may I clarify whether you mean the red Indians in American, who have nearly been driven to extinction by the policies of the left which you advocate? Or the brown Indians under British rule who have thrived and multiplied?"
America first! What a concept
That generation station was a lemon. It had problems from the day it was built.
Used to talk to two guys who worked there and they had problem after problem at that plant.
BTW, that plant was shut down in 2005. Not 2009.
One of the worst engineered power plants ever.
I thought all Indians migrated to casinos
The liberals are always whining about the poverty on the Navajo Nation without ever once taking credit for causing it. What you see on the Navajo reservation is what happens to a population once the liberal DemocRATS take over.
Yup!
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And the Navajo nation remains committed to liberal democrat policies. Their President Begaye (the guy signing the document in the picture with the article) endorsed Hillary.
How many jobs were lost?
It was shut down, but the policies of the OBama administration insured it would never reopen. I’d like to know more about the history.
Obama had very little to do with that plant-much as I hate to disappoint you. That plant was run by CAL ED and they did NOT give one rip about safety at that plant.
First, it was a coal slurry plant. The coal was piped in from the Navajo/Ute mine near Kayenta. That pipe burst and caused a whole hell of a lot of problems. Second, they had several accidents at that plant, one which killed 4 or 5 men when a reclaim steam pipe busted killing those guys and injuring several. That plant was an engineering disaster from the get go. The resulting accidents ended up in civil court, of course, and the plant ended up paying out a ton of money.
That plant was never to reopen because of the engineering of the place. Nobody in their right mind would touch it. They did consider running it on NG but they would have had to run a couple of new pipes from near Golden Shores up there. You know, the one that crosses I 40 and the river down there?
I often wondered if Dirty Harry Reid had his mitts in that disaster. Was funny because that SOB was involved in the infamous solar farm they tried to get put in around there.
It was shut down and idled in 2005. It remained idle until 09 when they decided to scrap it because nobody would bite at buying it as it was. Oh there was interest, but after those interested looked into it, they backed out.
And I dont care who says it was Obama, that was an excuse. Typical for this neck of the woods.
One other thing. I often wonder why in the hell they run around with road graders to blade these roads around here in GV. Why cant they put under body blades under a dump truck or two and maintain these roads that way? Back in the UP of Mich where I come from they do most of their road grading that way, and, they use those under body blades for snow removal almost exclusively. Of course if I were to go to the co commission meeting and mention that, they would tell me to move back to the UP I would suppose.
Here, this is about how it went there although there was much more to it.
And it was the NAV/Hopi and not the UTE who supplied the coal. My bad.
I used to know a couple of the guys who were hurt in that steam pipe accident and they are both really screwed up.
They say that 6 were killed. I donbt remember hearing of that many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohave_Power_Station
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