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Navajo Nation finalizes emissions-free solar energy project The lease is in the community of Cameron Share Updated: 8:37 PM MDT Apr 6, 2021 By Jaden Torres The lease is in the community of Cameron Share Updated: 8:37 PM MDT Apr 6, 2021 By Jaden Torres Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Vice President Myron Lizer, and nation leaders joined Navajo Tribal Utility Authority officials and Cameron Chapter President Charlie Smith in Cameron, Arizona, on Tuesday, to finalize a lease agreement to construct the Cameron Solar Generation Plant, which will produce 200 megawatts of emissions-free solar energy.“This is another step forward for the Navajo Nation’s renewable energy future. When the Nez-Lizer administration took office, we signed the Hayoołkaał proclamation to pursue and prioritize clean renewable energy development for the long-term benefit of the Navajo people, President Nez said.The lease for the pr ....
Fifteen years ago, rabbit hunters discovered a corpse in a cornfield. The dead man was Retha Letseoma’s husband, Pershing, who had been missing for three months. She would never know for sure how or why he died. He’d walked out of the rock house he shared with her and their five children one day in October, promising he’d return soon. Instead, he’d vanished. Letseoma had searched for him for days, combing through villages atop rocky, buff-hued mesas on a 1.5-million-acre swath of land belonging to the Hopi Tribe in northern Arizona. Advertisement After Pershing’s death, Letseoma and the kids moved into her parents’ three-bedroom, two-bath HUD home in Kykotsmovi, Arizona. When Letseoma was growing up in this house, her father had farmed and ranched and had owned horses, cattle, sheep, and chickens. There had always been enough food in the house, and plenty of firewood and coal to fuel the family heating stove during icy winter nights. ....