Native America Calling: Tribes push for more power over power lines

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Tribes push for more power over power lines

The increasing demand for power is prompting challenges from a number of Indian nations who say the means to transmit that power is harming culturally significant tribal lands.

The Tohono O’odham Nation, the Hopi Tribe, the Pueblo of Zuni and the San Carlos Apache Tribe were dealt a legal setback by a federal judge earlier this year in their opposition to a proposed $10 billion transmission line through a pristine Arizona canyon. And Pueblos and other tribes say they are concerned about additional transmission capacity planned to boost power at the famed Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

In both cases, tribal officials say the proposals did not adequately take cultural and archaeological significance into consideration.

Tribes taken Biden administration to court over $4 billion energy project

The Biden administration’s renewable energy agenda is being tested in court with a lawsuit from tribes opposed to a $4 billion development that runs through their homelands.

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Guests on Native America Calling

Stephanie Stringer, deputy manager for business, security, and mission for the National Nuclear Security Administration field office in Los Alamos, New Mexico

Reyes DeVore (Jemez Pueblo), project manager for the Pueblo Action Alliance, an organization based in New Mexico

The Caja del Rio is seen in the distance from White Rock Canyon in northern New Mexico. The Department of Energy is proposing an energy transmission line that would run through the area. Photo: Kent G. Budge