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The Navajo Nation Takes a Hit for Biden’s Climate Policies
pjmedia.com ^ | 9/20/2022 1157 hrs edt | Lincoln Brown

Posted on 09/20/2022 11:09:35 AM PDT by rktman

Yes, oil prices are slightly down, but that is only because Joe Biden continues to dip into the dwindling supply in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So you can expect the average price at the pump, which even as it now stands is still much higher than you paid before Biden’s ascent, to spike again.

While it would run counter to the environmental partners of the administration, the solution would be to extract more energy from the land under our feet. That means drilling for natural gas and oil. And if one believes the mainstream media, one would think that the people of the nation have cried out in unison to halt drilling and projects such as the Dakota Access Pipeline. And politicians and activists both abroad and at home are all too happy to save the planet, even at the expense of average people everywhere.

I have long said that if government decisions haven’t hit you yet, don’t worry, the government will get around to it sooner or later. And now, it has gotten around to members of the Navajo Nation.

Fox News reports that the administration is getting ready to finalize a rule from the Department of the Interior that would create a 20-year moratorium on oil and gas leasing in a 10-mile radius of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The moratorium was announced in 2021. Some 336,000 acres would be off-limits to exploration and extraction and came at the behest of some tribes, Democratic politicians, and environmental activists. While this is good news for the Patagonia and North Face set, it is not good news for tribal members who own royalties on those lands.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: az; climatechange; coalmines; navajo; navajonation; navajos; nm; powerplants
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To: Tell It Right

The Cherokees and other tribes were the recipients of Jackson’s Trail of Tears.

The Navajos had their “Long Walk” courtesy of Lincoln.(More like a stroll in the park compared to The Trail of Tears)


21 posted on 09/20/2022 12:42:16 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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To: rktman

There were several attempts to put more power plants and oil processing facilities on the Navajo Reservation fifty years ago.. The American Indian Movement(AIM Assholes in Moccasins) got it all shut down as they did the Fairchild Plant in Shiprock.
That is when we decided to move from Farmington NM (a place I still love) back to the land of the Cherokees.


22 posted on 09/20/2022 12:48:09 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I understand. Love the four corners area.


23 posted on 09/20/2022 12:54:23 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SaxxonWoods

True, I shouldn’t say not at all. NJ here $4.95 last time I filled.


24 posted on 09/20/2022 12:55:51 PM PDT by jughandle
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To: SaxxonWoods

Leadership of most Indian nations is totally corrupt. Navajo nation is still poverty stricken despite the hundreds of millions granted to them. 2014, out by Antelope Canyon. The village is dirt roads and shacks. Looks like Haiti or some such.


25 posted on 09/20/2022 12:58:49 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I wonder how many Chacos were displaced when the Navajo moved into their part of Mesa Verde (Colorado). Maybe the Navajo chief was distracted by a civil war.


26 posted on 09/20/2022 1:08:21 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: rktman

A few years ago, I railfanned the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad. It was a landlock railroad owned by the Navajos that ran from their coal mine to the power. It was powered by E60 electric locomotives. (E60 were beautiful GE locos.) Now it is gone...


27 posted on 09/20/2022 2:40:41 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Tell It Right

Huh? But, but, but peace loving pipe smokin’ veggie sharing tall tale telling horse taming natives. No? 😂🙌


28 posted on 09/20/2022 2:51:02 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

AMEN


29 posted on 09/20/2022 7:14:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Sadly, can’t do N.M. as much as I would like to. Also, done moving. 😂🙌


30 posted on 09/20/2022 7:32:07 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Look at any electoral map of the Plains or Rocky Mountain states. Other than liberal cities like Denver or resort areas like Jackson Hole, the blue patches in the overall red map are Indian reservations. Most of the tribal leaders are the rural equivalent of Lori Lightfoot or Stacey Abrams: peddlers of minority group voters to the Democrats for money and power.
31 posted on 09/20/2022 7:39:47 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: rktman

I hear ya.

I’m not done movin’; yet; but am doing it much more slowly


32 posted on 09/21/2022 3:38:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Wallace T.

That is why Mrs rktman’s idea works. Each county in the country gets one vote. Whoever wins the county wins that vote. The demokkkommies would have to actually get their hands and feet dirty and deal with the yucky fly over folks in that case. Never happen though.


33 posted on 09/21/2022 5:54:56 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

Bkmk


34 posted on 09/21/2022 7:27:41 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: rktman
Each county in the country gets one vote.

Counties vary in size by so much that it would never happen. One co-coworker of mine thought the head of household should be able to vote on behalf of his children (he has 9, though some are now over 18). Just think of the political clout large homeschooling families would have then!
35 posted on 09/21/2022 10:37:58 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: Dr. Sivana

Doesn’t matter. If there are 100 voters in the county and it goes 51 for “A” then “A” gets the county. County of a million and 500,001 go for “A” and on and on. In NV two counties determine how the state goes. Hardly seems “fair” to the other 14. It’s what it is.


36 posted on 09/21/2022 10:45:05 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: N. Theknow
The Indians are drilling to beat hell where I come from.

The ones that have been at it long enough to make it work.

They have a sizeable casino too.

37 posted on 09/21/2022 10:53:45 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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