DoomsdaysCW<p>A coal power plant demolition serves as a poignant historical moment for the Navajo </p><p>By Adam Burke<br>October 5, 2024</p><p>“At one point <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanJuanGeneratingStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanJuanGeneratingStation</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCornersPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourCornersPowerPlant</span></a>, according to Los Alamos National Lab, were the largest source of point-source <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> in the United States,' [Mike Eisenfeld of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanJuanCitizensAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanJuanCitizensAlliance</span></a>] said.</p><p>"But on this day, the San Juan Generating Station sat dark and inert — it shut down two years ago. As we flew over the Four Corners Power Plant, puffs of white smoke told us it was still producing energy.</p><p>'"This is the last <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalPlant</span></a> up here,” Eisenfeld said of Four Corners. 'All the others have been retired. Gone.'</p><p>"When Eisenfeld first moved to the area nearly 20 years ago, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalMining</span></a> and coal power were on the rise in northwest New Mexico. Today, several large-scale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarProjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarProjects</span></a> are in the works."</p><p>[...]</p><p>"[Elouise] Brown became an anti-coal activist in December 2006, after she learned that former Navajo Nation President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoeShirley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoeShirley</span></a> was backing a new coal-fired power plant in the region. The so-called Desert Rock project would have put a third coal plant within a few miles of the other two.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"'In our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a> way of life, you don’t mess with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>. You don’t mess with the resources inside,' she said.</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/05/nx-s1-5076973/coal-power-plant-demolition-navajo-new-mexico" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2024/10/05/nx-s1-50769</span><span class="invisible">73/coal-power-plant-demolition-navajo-new-mexico</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dineh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dineh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Din%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dinetah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinetah</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>