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Biden administration paying $75 million to move three tribes affected by climate change
The Hill ^ | 11/30/2022 | Zack Budryk

Posted on 11/30/2022 1:07:55 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The Biden administration will pay $75 in relocation costs to three Native American tribes whose homes are threatened by climate change, the Interior Department announced Wednesday.

The Interior Department will provide $25 million each to Washington State’s Quinault Indian Nation and Alaska’s Newtok Village and Native Village of Napakiak. The Alaska communities are the site of severe erosion, which is projected to destroy critical infrastructure in Napakiak by 2030 and within the next four years in Newtok.

Napakiak currently loses between 25-50 feet a year to erosion, according to DOI projections.

The Quinault Indian Nation is located where the Quinault River meets the Pacific Ocean, putting it at ground zero for storm surges, flooding and rising sea levels, as well as potential tsunamis caused by earthquakes on the Pacific Rim.

The funds for the voluntary program will be provided through the Bipartisan infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. The administration will also provide $5 million grants to eight other tribal communities, including four in Alaska, one in Arizona, one in California, one in Louisiana and one in Maine.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: biden; change; climate; climatechange; tribes
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder what’s under the land.


21 posted on 11/30/2022 1:48:48 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

—> Alaska’s Newtok Village

Population 354

—> Native Village of Napakiak

Population 344

Let them stay or go as they desire. They can pay themselves.

75 million????


22 posted on 11/30/2022 1:52:53 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Quinalt population Population in July 2007: 1,239.

Read more: https://www.city-data.com/city/Quinault-Reservation-Washington.html


23 posted on 11/30/2022 1:58:55 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Native Village of Napakiak population 358
Quinault Indian Nation population: 2534
Alaska’s Newtok Village population: 181
Total 3073
Each will receive $25Million.
Per capta:
The Native Village of Napakiak $69,832
Quinault Indian Nation $9865
Alaska’s Newtok Village $131,121

Average: $24,406


24 posted on 11/30/2022 1:59:29 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Just spending money we do not have. Not to mention buying votes. We have to inform our kids and grand kids they will be paying this back and the carrying costs on this debt.
25 posted on 11/30/2022 1:59:49 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
WOW, so now MAN is responsible for EROSION?

Would someone please tell Jao Bai Din that EROSION is a NATURAL PHENOMENON and has been occurring on Earth LONG BEFORE MAN?

Is the GRAND CANYON'S EROSION MAN'S FAULT? I THINK NOT!

26 posted on 11/30/2022 2:02:32 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More shareable commentary here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4112950/posts

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27 posted on 11/30/2022 2:03:43 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

To be fair, Biden is right again on this one, and he can’t really be wrong here. Climate change or no climate change, it’s always a good idea to move Native Americans around to places where they won’t be so bothersome and where they can be contained. Seems to work out well for everyone so far.


28 posted on 11/30/2022 2:10:59 PM PST by golux
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good thing the USA is here to bail them out.


29 posted on 11/30/2022 2:12:02 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is amazing that the Native Americans survived this long with government help. Just ask them how helpful the Federal government has been. They will tell you.


30 posted on 11/30/2022 2:24:22 PM PST by GingisK
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Climate Change——>>Destroy Energy Industry-——>>Welfare of the Planet’s Population Negatively Affected.


31 posted on 11/30/2022 3:15:14 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The Biden administration will pay $75 in relocation costs”

Must be missing some zeros. Otherwise, doesn’t sound all that bad.


32 posted on 11/30/2022 3:15:35 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: golux

Kinda like giving them some nice colorful beads and a smallpox blanket. Later the Left will call this a successful operation and want the power to do this to any American by force for their own good.


33 posted on 11/30/2022 3:16:14 PM PST by centermass_socrates (Look into a conservative and see hope and virtue, look in a liberal and you only see meat.)
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To: monkeyshine

No, but they will be used to dilute republican areas with democratic votes. Bought and paid for by you and me.


34 posted on 11/30/2022 3:55:57 PM PST by Ronald77
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Then there is the Indian Nations in Oklahoma...

Crucified Land by Alexander Hogue. Gilcrease Museum Tulsa OK

https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/52259080345_c17910f2c2_k-e1662996108599-570x350.jpg


35 posted on 11/30/2022 3:56:24 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK in Facebook Jail for quoting a line from the Dean Martin movie "Rough Night In Jericho.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Must be oil on three tribes land no other reason for Biden to do so he wants make sure they don’t sell it.


36 posted on 11/30/2022 4:13:50 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They need to be moved above the tsunami line for when the Cascadia or Alaska faults rupture. I’m sure people already live there, but that’s what eminent domain is for.


37 posted on 11/30/2022 4:14:06 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Losing landmass to erosion is a natural process that no amount of spending will prevent. You may hold it back for years, decades or even centuries, but nature will eventually win out.


38 posted on 12/01/2022 4:34:17 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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