** Navajo Generating Station—largest coal plant in the West—has shut down
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Navajo Generating Station in Arizona | National Park Service ([link removed])
After 45 years in operation, Arizona's Navajo Generating Station — the largest coal plant in the West — has shut down ([link removed]) . The massive facility faced increasing financial headwinds from cheaper natural gas and renewable energy. Employees will soon begin decommissioning the plant, a process expected to take years.
The plant's closure, along with the shuttering of the Kayenta Mine which supplied coal, will have a major financial impact on the Navajo and Hopi tribes. Leaders of the two nations have estimated declines in revenue of tens of millions of dollars.
After thanking the plant's employees, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez noted ([link removed]) , "Times are changing and energy development is changing — the demand for coal-based energy is no longer at its peak not only in our region but across the country. As Diné people, we have always been resilient in times of change, and that’s what we are doing by pursuing renewable energy options. We are looking to become the leader in renewable energy throughout the Southwest and Indian Country.”
Quick hits
** After attempting to weaken sage-grouse protections, legal defeats hamper Interior push to increase drilling
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Washington Post ([link removed])
** On Zion National Park's 100th birthday, what you probably didn't know about Utah's oldest park
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St. George Spectrum & Daily News ([link removed])
** After multi-year campaign, sacred shield returned to Acoma Pueblo from Paris auction house
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Associated Press ([link removed])
** Groups launch effort to stop proposed dams on the Little Colorado River just outside Grand Canyon National Park
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KNAU ([link removed])
** Multinational oil companies shed billions in assets, focus investment in Permian Basin
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Houston Chronicle ([link removed])
** With Wyoming coal company still on the hook for royalty payments, bankruptcy case far from over
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Casper Star-Tribune ([link removed])
** Navajo Generating Station, the largest coal plant in the West, closes after nearly 50 years in operation
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Associated Press ([link removed]) | Arizona Republic ([link removed])
** Forest Service opposes ban on bear baiting in Idaho, Wyoming
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Associated Press ([link removed])
Quote of the day
It seems to me that the Trump administration is overreaching in its ‘energy dominance’ agenda in its zeal to develop inside the sage-grouse habitat.”
—Erik Molvar, Executive Director of the Western Watersheds Project, Washington Post ([link removed])
Picture this
The Green River flows through Utah's Desolation Canyon
Bob Wick | Bureau of Land Management ([link removed])
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