Black Mesa studies to resume, slurry appears dead

By Marley Shebala, Navajo Times, April 17, 2008

WINDOW ROCK – The 38-year-old Black Mesa Pipeline is retiring.

The federal Office of Surface Mining has directed the pipeline’s present owner, Black Mesa Pipeline Co., to remove all trace of the structure, which was used to transport coal slurry from the Black Mesa Mine to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nev. Read more

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No power plant aids N-aquifer

Black Mesa Environmental Impact Statement
to be reactivated

By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

WINDOW ROCK — The Black Mesa Environmental Impact Statement is being reactivated, however the preferred alternative, which includes the C-aquifer pipeline, reportedly will be eliminated.

John Stucker, senior mining engineer for the Navajo Nation Minerals Department’s Surface Mining Program, said Friday that with the closure of Mohave Generating Station, Alternative A is no longer necessary, because the coal slurry pipeline that transported coal from Black Mesa Mine to Mohave is no longer operating. Read more

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