Elouise Brown, coordinator of the Dooda (NO) Desert Rock on the Navajo Nation shared the struggle of the Navajos opposing the planned coal-fired power plant Desert Rock. Desert Rock power plant would be the third coal fired power plant in the Four Corners area. Navajos have already been targeted with Cold War uranium mining and hundreds of oil and gas wells there.
While elected Navajo officials view the energy development as a means of revenue, for Navajos it has meant disease and death. Radioactive tailings remain strewn across the Navajo Nation from Cold War uranium mining and Navajos continue to resist relocation on Black Mesa in Arizona because of the coal mining of Peabody Coal.
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