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CONCLUSION

Abrupt closing of coal mines on the Colorado Plateau has proven to actually be quite harmful for people as it has depleted sources of income. With that said, it will be important for the good of the people and the environment to make a slow transition to renewable resources on Black Mesa.

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The Just Transition

  • A progressive and gradual change to renewable energy
  • Sierra Club and Black Mesa Water Coalition
  • Would allow for cleaner energy and input/involvement from Tribes

Recommendations

End

Solar:

  • Black Mesa receives as much solar power as existing solar plants in the US
  • Very good option, however it is opposed by native people who use the reclaimed land for grazing

Social

Environmental

  • Health Effects from coal mining target all systems; respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological
  • Many archaeological sites have been destroyed by the coal mines
  • History and culture being destroyed

  • Strip mining
  • degrading to the environment
  • Surface Mining Reclamation Act of 1977
  • reclaimed land has to occur
  • Water
  • taken from pristine Navajo-aquifer
  • NGS
  • one of the dirtiest in the nation
  • visibility impairments
  • Best Retrofit Technology (BART)

Policy

  • Strip mining leases signed by Hope and Navajo Tribal councils in 1966
  • "Promised more air conditioning for Los Angeles, more neon lights for Las Vegas, more water for Phoenix, more power for Tucson-and for the Indians, great wealth"
  • This did not happen
  • Tribes wanted infrastructure on Black Mesa, but that was not given
  • 70% of overall tribal budget for Hopi ($9 million)
  • 21% of Navajo budget

Background

  • John Boyden
  • brought back Hopi tribal council so they could sign a lease with Peabody
  • speculated that he worked for Peabody the whole time he was consulting for the Hopi
  • Land dispute

Coal Mining on Black Mesa

Background

Jayleen Troutwin

Anna Provenzano

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