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Article: Navajo power plant fails to deliver: Residents live without
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- News From Indian Country
- Article date:
- January 15, 1996
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Mark Trahant
News From Indian Country
01-15-1996
Navajo power plant fails to deliver: Residents live without electricity. while jobs leave reservation
A few miles south of Lake Powell, near Page, AZ, is the Navajo Generating Station. It is a striking contrast between technology and people.
The plant is a consortium managed by the public utility, the Salt River Project (SRP), Taxpayers, under the guise of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, are the single largest investor (SRP is second) at nearly one-quarter.
The nearly 20-year-old power plant consumes more than 35,000 acre-feet of water and 99 million tons of coal every year, converting it into 2.25 million kilowatts of electricity for cities ...
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