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Trump's energy secretary wants to bigfoot tribes' stewardship of their land (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 2 months ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The mesa’s steep drop offered ideal terrain for gravity-based energy storage, and the company was interested in building pumped-storage projects that leveraged the elevation difference. Environmental groups and tribal community organizations, however, largely opposed the plan. Pumped-storage operations involve moving water in and out of reservoirs, which could affect the habitats of endangered fish and require massive groundwater withdrawals from an already-depleted aquifer.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which has authority over non-federal hydropower projects on the Colorado River and its tributaries, ultimately denied the project’s permit. The decision was among the first under a new policy: FERC would not approve projects on tribal land without the support of the affected tribe. Since the project was on Navajo land and the Navajo Nation opposed the project, FERC denied the permits. The Commission also denied similar permit requests from Rye Development, a Florida-based company, that also proposed pumped-water projects.

Now, Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright wants to reverse this policy. In October, Wright wrote to FERC, requesting that the commission return to its previous policy and that giving tribes veto power was hindering the development of hydropower projects. The commission’s policy has created an “untenable regime,” he noted, and “For America to continue dominating global energy markets, we must remove unnecessary burdens to the development of critical infrastructure, including hydropower projects.”

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[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What the fuck does it mean to "bigfoot" something

[–] Ragallos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I came here wondering the same thing. Didn't realize that was a verb now. What a world!

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Great thing about English, every noun can verb.

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Read a thing recently that said the FBI released documents implying they killed Bigfoot, so maybe along those lines??

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Evidently people living in an area is an "unnecessary burden."

[+] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Eh. People living somewhere shouldn't be a burden for infrastructure and eminent domain should be used much more commonly for building things like passenger rail. That said Pumped Hydro, and hydro electricity have huge ecological footprints and really shouldn't be used anymore. I can only assume that they reason they wanted to build it was some perverse incentive created by the Biden or Obama administration.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because eminent domain has a history of displacing people equally, right? Never intentionally going through redlined communities and giving poor black people a low-ball offer for their homes?

Or are you volunteering your home in exchange for a fraction of market value and a rubber-stamped thank you note from the mayor?

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago

The common topological targets of eminent domain are problematic and obviously someone like Robert Moses was giving extreme reverence to the rich. But regardless of who was damaged by his eminent domain details, the value that it added for everyone was enormously positive, and would have been even greater were he not a racist. I'm specifically talking about his parks and railroads as detailed in the Power Broker.

The legal method he was able to leverage to build infrastructure should be excercised more broadly vs land-trusts, and holding companies like america's ancient rail barons. Though you don't even need to go that far. Just use it to reclaim abandoned rail-lines + RoW. Yes it's a payout to the railroad's, but it's an enormous resource through the heart of many cities. National rail expansion merged with amtrack? new parks, bike trails, etc etc. It could be used to revitalize the very neighborhoods that were most hurt by past abuses.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Til Black Mesa is a real place.

[–] RePsyche@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Great news, it’s more than one place.

[–] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Don't fuck around with Black Mesa, boys. Do you want a resonance cascade? Because this is how you get a resonance cascade.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

no wonder navajo are always angry people, its things like these. i had a navajo professor once and he was always angry, and would often let it lash out at the students sometimes if the slightest thing ticked him off.