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The latest from Save the Confluence
Navajo leaders, residents mull Big Canyon Dam study
A Navajo leader, who represents the western Navajo chapter where a developer proposes to construct a dam, rejects the idea.
Navajo Nation intervenes in Big Canyon
The Navajo Nation has filed a motion to intervene in a proposal to build a dam at Big Canyon, near the site where a developer three years ago was kicked out after trying to build a gondola tram and tourist resort.
Big Canyon comments due Monday at FERC
The deadline is quickly approaching to send comments to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about Big Canyon in Western Navajo Nation.
FERC wants to hear from you about Big Canyon
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has opened a two-month comment period about Big Canyon near the Little Colorado River. FERC accepted Tuesday a permit application from Pumped Hydro Storage LLC. Steve Irwin, manager of Pumped Hydro Storage LLC, plans to dam up...
Send comments about dams to Navajo leaders
Readers of Save the Confluence asked how they can help about two proposed dams on the Little Colorado River. The names of the dams are Navajo Nation/Salt Trail Canyon and Navajo Nation/Little Colorado PSP. Here is Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez's contact. Navajo...
A permit gives developer chance to threaten Confluence
Federal officials have given the green light to a developer who wants to build a dam to capture scarce water in drought-like conditions near the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers.
She thought she knew which Monster to fight, until the coronavirus came along
Rita Bilagody, a Tuba City resident, led the fight against Phoenix developers, who proposed to develop a tourist resort at Grand Canyon East Rim. She called the proposal “The Monster.” That was, until she contracted the coronavirus. This is her story.
Virus Silences Helicopters at Confluence
If there is one good thing about the coronavirus, it grounded all the air-tour operators over the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers for the first time in about 30 years.
Navajo chapter opposes dams
A Navajo Nation chapter voted Wednesday against inviting a Phoenix developer to explain its proposal to build multiple dams on the Little Colorado River.
Death of Escalade brings more developers, ideas
By William LongReed It’s been two years since the Navajo Nation Council voted -- 16 opposed and 2 in favor -- to stop the Grand Canyon East Rim project known as the Grand Canyon Escalade. The then-Confluence Partners wanted more 400-acres of Navajo land. The partners’...
Hopi Tribe objects to proposal to build dams on ancestral lands
The Hopi Tribe is urging the secretary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to stop a project to build dams near the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers. "Any development within the area of the Confluence will forever compromise the spiritual...
Developer seeks two dams on Little Colorado River
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez on Friday told a developer who wants to build two dams on the Little Colorado River to respect the environment and listen to local land users.
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