‼️CALL TO ACTION‼️ Join us in demanding that coal-impacted communities like ours get the Just & Equitable Transition (JET) funding we need. Details in the comments. #JETBlackMesa#NavajoEquitableEconomy
Help us urge the #ArizonaCorporationCommission to move forward with Just & Equitable #Transition support for coal-impacted communities. This upcoming townhall is geared toward #Hopi tribal members. To register to speak, visit https://t.co/nENL5rSyEW #EmpoweredTransition
WATCH: Nicole Horseherder, E.D. of Tó Nizhóní Ání & Ben Nuvamsa, former Chairman of Hopi Tribe, speak before a Congressional hearing. Peabody industry is failing its clean up obligations: https://t.co/Gy1vYJya4m @tonizhoniani@NavajoCouncil @NNPrezNez @OSMRE @Interior@NRDems
Nicole Horseherder, E.D. of Tó Nizhóní Ání & Ben Nuvamsa, former Chairman of the Hopi Tribe, will join others tomorrow to speak before a Congressional hearing, will touch on coal industry failing its clean up obligations. Details: https://t.co/kJBXApw1oR #NavajoEquitableEconomy
Members of the Navajo Nation aim to rebuild a “restorative economy” rooted in traditional and Native-owned businesses. (Sponsored by @JTFund) https://t.co/vnQLs1wTjC
“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done. #PeabodyEnergy needs to bring that land back to the highest standard as possible because people are going to continue to live on it.” - Nicole Horseherder, Tó Nizhóní Ání #Reclamation#Repatriation#BlackMesa
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For those of you unable to join us for last week's premiere of the film Current Revolution: Nation in Transition, co-presented by our friends at @AmResilience@ASU_SHPRS, you can now watch the entire event w a two-week window to see the film. https://t.co/YcJAxGsxPv
"So far, Peabody has proven the most difficult to deal with by far. The company has submitted a request to @OSMRE, to delay much of the reclamation work, which involves returning the open coal pits to workable land,..." https://t.co/vq6LqsqyDm via @jkutzie; @tonizhoniani. More👇
@PeabodyEnergy "doesn’t have the best track record. In 2015, nearly a decade after it closed the Black Mesa Mine, @USIndianAffairs called its reclamation work inadequate," ... some of the land had taken on “moonscape surface features” due to poor topsoiling & backfilling.
Navajo and Hopi statements on the demolition of smokestacks at largest coal plant in the West. Razing brings an end to the painful era of coal for tribes; opens the door to healing and building new sustainable economies. https://t.co/qFMAs3UFu9 via @IndianCountry#ICTPressPool
"Coal mines partially drained massive #Navajo Aquifer drying up springs &water sources in a region where running water is not available in thousands of homes" https://t.co/Gsc4nXNuE2 via @zak_podmore; Learn more on our fight for a #NavajoEquitableEconomy 👉https://t.co/XIyAXNVZge
Thousands of homes already lacked access to running water, & depletion of aquifer has made access even more difficult, to the point that many correlate severity of the COVID outbreak on the Navajo Nation to hardships caused by difficulties in getting water for even basic hygiene.