DoomsdaysCW<p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsnorrell.blogspot.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bsnorrell.blogspot.com</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> Targeted Again for Sacrifice Zone: '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> Companies Preying on the People'</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> ask: Why is the Navajo Nation allowing energy companies to prey on communities and individuals? </p><p>By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 23, 2024</p><p>"Dine' on the Navajo Nation are now targeted with a push to revitalize dirty coal energy, and a hydropower project that would pump precious water from their aquifer. Dine' question why the Navajo Nation government is allowing energy companies to prey on the communities and individuals.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LouiseBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LouiseBenally</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigMountain</span></a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s aunt] said the bottom line is greed. 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'</p><p>"The new stampede of parasitic energy companies to the Navajo Nation comes at the same time that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a> trucks, covered only with tarps, are traveling across the Navajo Nation, from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> uranium mine to the mill in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a> community in Utah.</p><p>"At the same time, more than 500 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a>, and scattered radioactive debris, remain on the Navajo Nation, and was never cleaned up by the U.S. government. Dirty coal mines and power plants left the legacy of death and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a>.</p><p>Navajo Council Plans Meeting on Revitalizing Coal Industry<br> <br>"Citing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s push for new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoalMining</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNationCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNationCouncil</span></a> plans to hold a public hearing on<br>revitalizing the coal industry.<br> <br>"The Navajo Nation Council announced the public hearing, stating that on April 8 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled, 'Reinvigorating America’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeautifulCleanCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeautifulCleanCoal</span></a> Industry<br>and Amending Executive Order 14241' aimed at reversing past federal policies, to boost the coal industry and to strengthen the country’s national energy security, according to the White House. </p><p>"The public hearing is scheduled in Forest Lake Chapter on Friday, May 30. Louise Benally and her family spent their lives battling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyCoal</span></a> and resisting forced relocation at Big Mountain on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMesa</span></a>. She said what Trump is doing is another chapter in the assault on the land and people.<br> <br>" 'Pl 93-531 is a law created by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarryGoldwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarryGoldwater</span></a> to target our rights to water and land base to be taken away. He developed that law so, with what Trump is trying to do is no different.'</p><p>" 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'</p><p>" 'The American political system is not our government as traditional people which is where all our modern day problems come from in the form of an endless greed to keep eating up the earth and the natural resources.'</p><p>"Louise questioned Navajo Nation President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuuNygren</span></a>'s support of Trump and coal mining in Washington, and Nygren's agreement for uranium trucks to cross the Navajo Nation. 'The Navajo Nation government is at a crossroads. Buu has been taken by Trump, and the people he is supposed to be responsible for are in question.'</p><p>" 'He has been taken into the bag of greed -- uranium and coal yet, there is no water. We want accountability.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/navajo-nation-targeted-again-for.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/navajo-nation-targeted-again-for.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyFuels</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineteh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dineteh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NukingTheUte</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hopi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidiiRoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BidiiRoots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DineCARE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DineCARE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Havasupai</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinyonPlainUraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PinyonPlainUraniumMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumTransport</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveDust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveDust</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RememberKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RememberKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a></p>