Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/03/2009 10:38:33 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Despite the fact that Navajo Nation president Joe Shirley Jr. won an international award for environmentalism, he's a thorn in the side for environmentalists. Why? Because, according to them, the power plant that provides energy and jobs to his people in Arizona is an environmental hazard, one that creates an unsightly haze over the Grand Canyon.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants the Navajo Generating Station, which is supplied with coal from mines on Black Mesa, to install air-scrubbing equipment. A Sierra Club spokesman described the plants as "low-hanging fruit." And the journalist reporting the story cites Shirley as the only climate change skeptic, while quoting a number of Shirley's opponents.
While we learn that...
More than 1,500 United Nations climate scientists agree that Earth's temperature has begun to rise at a potentially disastrous rate, and that carbon emissions are the major cause. Skrelunas noted a study issued this spring by Jayne Belnap, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, which says global warming is expected to increase temperatures in the Four Corners area 10 degrees by 2100. Already, Belnap reports, drought has tripled the number of dust storms swirling from the high desert into the Colorado Rockies.
... No mention is made of the fact that a number of the signers of the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change report have since changed their views or otherwise critiqued the report. There is no such thing as a consensus in the scientific community on global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Enviro Ping.
How does one say “Bite me” in Navajo?
“Bite me!”
CA....
The list, ping
Of course the enviros care so much about the Navajo culture that they would shut down the power plant and other industries so that the tribe would revert fully to a subsistence lifestyle, and completely dependant on the “generousity” of the welfare state. That would return them to “cultural authenticity”.
Enviros and everyone else can go pound sand. Fact ios rez land is sovereign and they got NO say
Is the Navajo Nation signitaries to the Kyoto treaty?
The enviros have ruined the Grand Canyon far more than power plants. I’ve visited, hiked, camped and loved being there ... until recently.
The Ranger staff now appears to be strictly disciplined environmentalists preaching a party line. I witnessed that in May at a Ranger talk near the Bright Angel Lodge.
Later, the advertised South Rim Ranger Mather 8 PM show had about 10 people waiting and we waited ... and waited .... no Ranger showed up.
When my kids were young, that 8 pm show was packed ... not now.
And guess, what ... The canyon air and essence is still perfect; except for the enviros preaching there.
Trying to force the Navajo is an exercise in futility. If the enviros do succeed in destroying the American economy, those Navajo keep a five year reserve of food.
Care to guess the price of Navajo grain to enviros?
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