NEWS ADVISORY
For Immediate Release
Contacts
Enei Begaye, Indigenous Environmental Network 928-380-6296
Calvin Johnson, C-Aquifer for Dine’ 928-814-1475
GRASSROOTS NAVAJO COMMUNITIES MARCH ON NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL CHAMBERS
WATER IS LIFE MARCHERS SHOW GROWING OPPOSITION TO SECRET SETTLEMENT
WITH PEABODY AND CONCERN FOR THE PROTECTION OF BOTH THE N AND C AQUIFERS
Window Rock, AZ-- Grassroots community members effected by secret
deals with Peabody will march to Navajo Nation Council Chambers to
ask council leaders to hear their voice and open up the secret deals
now underway with Peabody and tribal leaders. At the opening of the
Navajo Nation Council’s spring session, Attorney General Louis
Denetsosie will offer the council a report on the ongoing secret
negotiations with Peabody and other utility companies trying to find
alternative water supplies to open the Mohave Generating Station that
was shut down at the end of 2005. This will be the first public
presentation on these talks since settlement papers were leaked to
the media that showed that the Navajo Nation was willing to allow N-
Aquifer pumping for the Peabody slurry line and giving away their
sovereignty to allow Peabody to keep slurring coal. A press
conference will follow to offer community responses to Mr.
Denetsosie’s presentation.
What: Water is Life March to Protect the N and C
Aquifers and to say no to the Peabody slurry line. Press conference
at the lunch break for council delegates around noon.
When: Monday, April 17th
Where: March starts at 8:30am at the Wells Fargo parking
lot and ends in front of the Navajo Nation Council Chambers at
9:30am. A press conference will offer a response to the council
session the start of the Council’s lunch break around noon.
Why: Secret deals between tribal leaders and Peabody
leave out the voice of the people. Enough is enough! Marchers will
demand that tribal leaders listen to their concerns and represent the
people, not Peabody.
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