What other headline did you expect?
With Cap & Trade - the enviro-nutjobs' pet-wood project - on hold in Congress, from democrat opposition, Pres. Obama wants to continue oppressing the Red Man via bureaucratic fiat:
EPA seeks remand of Navajo power plant permit.
"The tribe's Dine Power Authority and Houston-based Sithe Global LLC have partnered to build the 1,500-megawatt power plant on the Navajo reservation south of Farmington. They have said Desert Rock would be one of the cleanest coal-burning plants in the nation and it would generate more than $50 million in annual revenues and create jobs on a reservation where more than half of people are unemployed."
The EPA had issued an air permit on July 31, 2008 for the Desert Rock Energy Facility. But there's a new sheriff in town, and his deputies are making their 'protection' rounds. Some enviro-nutball outfit called Earthjustice, which represents a coalition of environmental groups, has employed the EPA to do its narrow minded bidding.
"This isn't just about energy," (Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr) said. "This is about sovereignty. This is about saving self. This is about the Navajo Nation regaining its independence by developing the financial wherewithal to take care of its own problems."
Jeff Holmstead, lead attorney in the fight to build Desert Rock and a former assistant administrator for air at EPA, was surprised by the EPA's action and said the agency seems to have little regard for due process or fairness.
"We are well into the appeals process, and now EPA wants the Navajo Nation and its partners to go back and start over again under different rules," he said."
That's because Obama Hates Navajos & Wants Them to Live in Squalor. No 'Lincoln' analogies here, just 'let's oppress the Red Man' Andrew Jackson ones.
"We're talking clean coal. We're talking carbon capture," Shirley said in a recent interview. "We want the Desert Rock power plant to be not only a model for the United States of America but for the world regarding the use of clean coal technology."
We want it to. And early in the presidential campaign, Obama said to trust him on coal.
Looks like Black man speak with forked tongue...
