by | Feb 25, 2024 | Aggregate
Hydropower projects that want to take advantage of water resources on Native American lands now must get the approval of local tribes in order to move their projects forward.
The new policy was announced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as it rejected seven hydropower proposals eyeing different parts of Navajo Nation land, according to the Associated Press.
The new policy means that before serious planning can get underway, Native American officials must sign off on a project.
“It applies anywhere that a hydropower project might be proposed on tribal lands throughout the United States,” Aaron Paul, an attorney with Grand Canyon Trust, a conservation group, said.
“It is encouraging to see federal decision-makers honoring the trust responsibilities to Native American Tribes,” Nicole Horseherder, executive director of the Navajo nonprofit Tó Nizhóní Ání, said, according to KUER-FM.
“Historically, that has not been the case. These projects would have damaged vital groundwater sources that have already been harmed by 50 years of industrial overuse from coal mining,” Horseherder said.
Navajo residents living near the proposed hydropower site were concerned about potential damage to underground water supplies and sacred lands. https://t.co/3g6mUWU3H7
— KUER 90.1 (@KUER) February 19, 2024
Navajo Nation member and attorney Heather Tanana said that under the new policy “it’s fair to say that the community is in the driver’s seat now.
“Unless they’re the ones pursuing development that they view as beneficial to their community, it’s going to be a lot harder to happen,” she said.
“This is the acknowledgment and respect of tribal sovereignty, which is critical,” George Hardeen, a representative of the Navajo Nation’s president’s office said, according to the AP.
The Hopi Tribe said in a statement that the change must be made permanent.
“Formal amendment of FERC’s rules is still required to ensure that the agency is required to conform to and implement this new policy for preliminary permits,” the statement said.
“Our Hopi community is simply asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to allow us to be at the table when outside companies want to build projects on our land base, along our waterways, or ancestral spaces that we have been connected to well before the arrival of colonizers,” Craig Andrews, Vice Chairman of the Hopi Tribe, said.
“We need continued protection of our sacred sites; we need these government agencies to simply reach out to us first for consultation and consent. In addition, we would like them to honor and respect our decisions on the outcome of the consultations,” he said.
Thanks to @FERC for denying three pumped-storage hydropower projects on Black Mesa in AZ. The projects were proposed on the Navajo Nation’s trust lands & ancestral lands of the @TheHopiTribe by a non-Indigenous developer and were opposed by Tribes & Indigenous NGO partners pic.twitter.com/O1vxy78nBf
— American Rivers (@americanrivers) February 15, 2024
Timothy Nuvangyaoma, Chairman of the Hopi Tribe, said: “The sheer number of hydroelectric developments being proposed around us jeopardizes the natural order of things, and the strong longstanding cultural ties to the confluence in the Grand Canyon and other Hopi ancestral places, all of which supports our entire Hopi way of life.”
The Hopi statement noted that a 2020 project FERC allowed to go ahead threatens land special to the Hopis.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by | Feb 25, 2024 | Aggregate
Former Panama Border Chief Oriel Ortega says the UN is funding the migrant invasion into the US.
Former Panama border chief Oriel Ortega claims the United Nations in behind the chaos and invasion at the US border with Mexico.
A report in November found that the Biden regime is spending $451 billion a year for illegal alien and asylum seeker benefits.
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Oriel Ortega blames the United Nations for the invasion of America.
Laura Loomer met with Oriel Ortega this week in Panama.
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing the former Director of @senafrontpanama (Border Patrol) in Panama, @orielortega1 Oriel Ortega. Ortega is currently serving as a national security advisor to the President of Panama.
He has met with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas… https://t.co/9Nsw3NAPiV pic.twitter.com/bTCeLZsEkA
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) February 23, 2024
The Epoch Times and Zero Hedge reported:
Oriel Ortega, now a security and defense consultant to Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo, said during a Feb. 22 interview that he saw a jump in migration in 2016, at the same time that more nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) moved into Panama.
That increase corresponded with the U.N.’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration meeting in 2016. Two years later, 152 nations—including Panama—voted in favor of the compact to manage global migration. The United States voted against it.
But under the U.N., the migration process has been anything but orderly, Mr. Ortega said.
“It’s completely opposite right now,” he said through an interpreter.
Documents show that in 2023, a record 500,000 migrants traveled through the dense jungle known as the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama. Migrants from around the world are flying into South and Central America to start their journey because countries such as Suriname and Ecuador don’t require a visa to enter. Their final destination is the United States.
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by | Feb 25, 2024 | Aggregate
Some stories are predictable tragedies: Abdul Ezedi was an Afghan ‘refugee’ (really an economic migrant) who was absurdly granted asylum in the UK despite being convicted of a sex offense in Britain in 2018.
Associated Press reported:
“His asylum application was initially rejected, but he later was permitted to remain in the U.K. after claiming that he had converted to Christianity.”
After fake Christian Ezedy performed a chemical attack on his former girlfriend and her two young daughters, he became the object of a nationwide manhunt.
Now it arises that London police confirmed that a body they pulled from the River Thames is that of Ezedy.
His family has been informed of this development, and the Met police also said that a post-mortem has confirmed his cause of death as drowning.
“’As the public would expect, our enquiries continue into this atrocious attack’, said Commander Jon Savell. ‘The 31-year-old woman is still in hospital and remains in a stable condition and no longer sedated. We have still not been able to speak to her but hope to as soon as she is well enough’.
Police launched a nationwide manhunt for Ezedi after the attack in the Clapham area of south London on Jan. 31 that saw the mother-of-two doused with a corrosive alkali. Some of the chemical injured her 8-year-old daughter, while the 3-year-old had her head slammed into the ground.
Images of Ezedi soon after showed he had significant injuries to the right side of his face, but his whereabouts were unknown. On Feb. 9, the Met said they believed Ezedi had probably ‘gone into the water’ after piecing together closed-circuit television footage of his movements after the attack.”
The crew of a passing boat reported seeing a body in the water near the Tower of London on Monday afternoon.
Independent reported:
“Ezedi’s body was recovered from the River Thames on Monday and has now been formally identified following a post-mortem examination, the Metropolitan Police said.”
His former girlfriend, who was doused with a corrosive chemical in Clapham last month, is now in a stable condition and no longer sedated.
“Police believe Ezedi, from the Newcastle area, threw a burning chemical over the woman, some of which also injured one of the children, and slammed the three-year-old’s head on the ground in the attack on January 31.
He then fled the scene and initially used his bank card to travel on the Tube before walking a route that broadly hugged the banks of the River Thames in the following hours.
During a massive manhunt, investigators had to piece together CCTV footage to establish that he had jumped in the Thames.”
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