Posted on 05/04/2016 9:23:42 AM PDT by rktman
The Navajo residents of Page, Ariz., have gotten to the point where they openly worry their modest rush hour may end altogether.
The rush hour consists of only a few hundred cars carrying 520 people out to the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), heading down a windy road to the coal-fired power plant, which is dramatically positioned on a ridge a mile from the shores of Lake Powell, the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States.
The Navajo coal plant’s lease is set to expire in 2019, pending complex negotiations aimed at extending operations until 2044. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations have complicated the plant’s future through so-called Regional Haze regulations, which were crafted to improve visibility and not curb pollution. In essence, the Navajo Nation and the region could lose a key source of economic prosperity to slightly improve tourists’ view of the Grand Canyon.
“Historically power plants and mines have been some of the best jobs for those in the nation, but the plants do more than just provide high paying jobs they have allowed the Navajo Nation to preserve its unique cultural identity.” says Arizona state Sen. Carlyle Begay, himself of Navajo heritage.
Begay recently switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican and is running for Congress in Arizona’s 1st District, in part because of his frustration over the role the EPA plays in the region. He’s frustrated EPA’s threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of Navajos in the name of a regulation that won’t improve public health — it’s purely there for aesthetics.
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NM in play this election season? usually the rez votes D.
I’d love to see Hillary and Obama meet with a group of Navajo elders and explain this one.
Democrats hate Native Americans!!!!
Probably will again knowing what a strong supporter of the coal industry hildebeast is. Oh.........
Well, they can build a Casino.
The perfect solution.
Money and Jobs and Satisfying Entertainment ... The Tribe’s own Utopia.
The Central American agriculture fires cause smoke and haze all over Texas every May.
The EPA while not breaching old gold mines, find a coal plant to bitch about.
Ted would have fixed it, Let us hope that Trump can.
Native American, the minority no one ever mentions or cares about.
LOL! It just dawned on me that dem voters kinda suffer from “battered wife” syndrome. Constantly abused by the dems they ‘love’ but keep on hoping for change.
Obama and Hillary are going to replace the coal and power plant jobs with really high quality welfare payments
Because welfare has worked sooooo well for the Native American nations
This will all be reversed. January 20th!!
Trump was saying last night that he plans on restoring all coal mining operations in the United States.
Obama will be undone pronto...
Hillary will never get the chance to live out his third term.
Now, all the NeverTrump folks, realize that is going to be played out on hundreds of issues.
Doesn’t that just p-ss you off!
Wake up...
“Democrats hate Native Americans!!!!”
And Native Americans love Democrats!!! Go figure.
Nice question for Cankles: “in which context should we misunderstand your coal position on this one?”. I dare you!
This is in Arizona, but Trump should promise to hold this regulation until they are able to get some better pollution controls installed.
It turns out that Watergate was not Richard Nixon’s biggest screwup by far.
I would put the creation of the EPA way, way up at the top of the list.
The creation of the EPA ranks right up there with G. W. Bushes’ Patriot act and Obama’s Obamacare as three of the worst bills ever signed into law.
Of course nothing compares with Obama’s ongoing criminality - other than Obamacare he doesn’t even bother with laws.
But these two acts by republicans have given liberals laws they constantly use to put the boot of tyranny on our throats and to kill capitalism and free enterprise.
Indian reservations are self governing in many ways aren’t they?
WhT I’m wondering is if the EPA has full jurisdiction over Indian lands in the first place? Or will they exercise authority if nobody in the administration stops them? What’s really going on here?
Sad to say, I think this may have boosted the nevertrumpsters to crank it up even more. Pretty sad they’d rather see hildebeast of bernie win the wh.
The Democrat war on Injuns !!!
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