Coal Mining in Navajo Nation

Navajo Mine | A Navajo Transitional Energy Company Strategic Asset

In 1963, active Navajo Mine operations began. As the sole supplier of fuel to the Four Corners Power Plant, the power generated plays a significant role in ...

After the Local Coal Mine Shuts Down, These Navajo and Hopi ...

While tribal governments took a big hit from the closures of Kayenta and the power station—the Navajo Nation received between $30 million and ...

The fight for an equitable energy economy for the Navajo Nation

The Navajo Generating Station, which opened in 1974 and operated for decades before shuttering in 2019, was the largest coal-fired power plant ...

Navajo Mine and Railroad - Wikipedia

The Navajo Mine is a surface coal mine owned and operated by Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) in New Mexico, United States, within the Navajo Nation.

What a New Mexico coal power plant demo means for Navajo Nation

Since the 1960s, utilities have burned coal on or near Navajo land, sending electricity to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego and ...

Federal agency failed to monitor AZ coal mines' water use, report says

The mines produced an average of 14 million tons of coal per year and pumped billions of gallons of groundwater from the Navajo Aquifer, also ...

The Navajo Mine - ArcGIS StoryMaps

The Navajo Mine and SMCRA · July 1957. The Navajo Nation grants a 24,000-acre coal lease (Navajo Tribal Coal Lease 14-20-603-2505) to Utah Construction and ...

Coal's Days in Navajo Country Are Numbered | Scientific American

The Cholla Power Plant in Joseph City, Ariz., just south of the Navajo Nation, is scheduled to close in 2025. In New Mexico, along the Navajo's ...

Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation - YouTube

There's a resource curse on the Navajo Nation. The 27000-square-mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an ...

Transitioning away from coal leaves Navajo communities struggling

Despite years of warnings about coal mines and power plants shutting down on the Navajo Reservation, promised funding to help an economic ...

Indian Lands Program | Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and ...

Currently, OSMRE is the regulatory authority on coal mining and reclamation operations located on the Crow, Hopi, Navajo and Ute Mountain Ute reservations and ...

Coal Mining in Navajo Nation: Are the consequences worth it?

For almost half a century, America's largest native reservation relied on coal: for jobs and economic vitality. Now the coal era on the Navajo reservation ...

How The Navajo Became America's Third-Largest Coal Producer

Last August, NTEC announced a deal to acquire three enormous mines in Wyoming and Montana from bankrupt Cloud Peak Energy for about $100 ...

Gerard Approves Coal Mining Plan on Navajo Reservation

The Restructured Mining and Reclamation Plan submitted by the Consolidation Coal Company and approved by the Navajo Nation calls for the mining of over 9,000 ...

Tribe at a Crossroads: The Navajo Nation Purchases a Coal Mine

The Navajo Nation bought Navajo Mine from Australian energy giant BHP Billiton, which reportedly is selling off smaller assets worldwide.

Home - Navajo Nation

In 1989, Navajo AML conducted an on-the-ground survey of abandoned mine lands and inventoried 273 coal, 33 copper and over 1000 non-coal abandoned mines. Since ...

NTEC offers free coal to Navajo people at Navajo Mine

Coal is a primary fuel source for Navajo residents who live in rural areas and do not have regular access to gas or electricity. Also, for those ...

Timeline | NTEC | A History Founded on an Energy Legacy

Navajo Mine begins large-scale mining operations in 1963 by its original operator, Utah International in areas south of Fruitland, New Mexico on the Navajo ...

Navajo Coal-Mining Lease Approved - | Indian Affairs

Approval of a coal-mining lease to the El Paso Natural Gas Company covering 8762 acres of tribally owned land on the New Mexico portion of the Navajo Indian ...

Years After Coal Mines Close On Navajo And Hopi Land, Some Are ...

Its lease areas for two adjacent mines, Black Mesa and Kayenta, cover about 100 square miles of Navajo and Hopi land. As the market for coal ...