Navajo leader seeks grant for power plant
Posted at: 09/30/2009 3:12 PM
By: The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. is seeking a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that would help pay for equipment designed to capture carbon emissions from a proposed coal-fired power plant on tribal land.
Environmentalists, the state of New Mexico and some Navajos have voiced concerns about the $3 billion Desert Rock Energy Project, saying a third coal-fired plant in the region would compromise air quality, human health and the environment.
The tribe and Houston-based Sithe Global LLC have partnered to build the 1,500-megawatt plant. They say it will be one of the cleanest coal-burning plants in the nation.
Shirley said Wednesday that getting a grant to install carbon capture and storage technology at the plant would make the tribe a leader in clean coal power generation.
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