Leupp residents anxious about Peabody water plans
Leupp residents anxious about Peabody water plans
By Marley Shebala
Navajo Times, 1/18/07
LEUPP, Ariz. – More than 140 people showed up at two public hearings held
here on the U.S. Office of Surface Mining’s draft environmental impact
statement on the proposed Black Mesa Project last week.
The proposed project calls for Peabody Western Coal Co. to increase coal
production from the Kayenta and Black Mesa mines and pump more ground
water. Read more
Tensions run high at final Black Mesa DEIS hearing
Rebecca Schubert
The Observer
FLAGSTAFF-Gathering from communities across northern Arizona and
beyond people of the many nations including the Hopi, Navajo and U.S.
came together to learn and discuss the Office of Surface Mining’s Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The public meeting was the
final in a series of 12 held by the U.S. Department of the Interior Office
of Surface Mining (OSM) administrators across northern Arizona. Read more
Using local water for Peabody mine contentious
By CYNDY COLE
Sun Staff Reporter
Norman Benally was 5 years old when he was taken from his home at
Black Mesa and sent to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school.
He returned to a different landscape nine years later.
“The area I grew up in had all been strip-mined and everything had
changed in that way,” he said. Read more
Big Coal’s Dirty Move
As the world heats up, the coal industry is racing to build more than 150 new power plants before Congress decides to crack down on global warming
JEFF GOODELL
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a suicidal act is one that is “dangerous to oneself or to one’s interests; self-destructive or ruinous.” By this standard, the coal boom that is currently sweeping America is the atmospheric equivalent of a swan dive off a very tall building. At precisely the moment that scientists have reached a consensus that we need to drastically cut climate-warming pollution, the electric-power industry is racing to build more than 150 new coal plants across the United States. Coal is by far the dirtiest fossil fuel: If the new plants are built, they will dump hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year for decades to come — virtually guaranteeing that the U.S. will join China in leading civilization’s plunge into a superheated future. Read more
Black Mesa EIS meeting one for the record
Black Mesa EIS meeting one for the record
By Kathy Helms
Dine Bureau
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
WINDOW ROCK — To call Tuesday night’s meeting on Peabody Western
Coal Co.’s Black Mesa Project a public hearing, “is really
inadequate,” Navajo Nation Council Delegate Amos Johnson told
federal officials.
But that wasn’t the only complaint in an evening that didn’t get
off to a good start and broke up just short of descending into
verbal chaos. Read more
