Dooda (NO) Desert Rock Power Plant

A third power plant is being proposed to be built in the Four Corners area near Burnham, New Mexico. The Four Corners area was designated as a “National Sacrifice Area” by the National Academy of Sciences over thirty years ago.

Air pollution has contaminated the San Juan Basin air-shed many times over. Thousands of acres of prime Navajo grazing lands has been permanently destroyed.

Deadly air contaminants from dirty smokestacks from the Four Corners and San Juan

Power Plants befoul and unleash poison such as mercury, sulfur dioxide, and other particles that blacken the skies killing fish in the waters from Navajo Lake to Morgan Lake and along the San Juan River.

Dine Power Authority and Sithe Global want to build another mammoth power plant in the Burnham area. DPA approached Burnham Chapter more than ten times during the past year and they still refused to approve the Desert Rock Power Plant proposal. Their neighboring chapters have also refused to support the proposed power plant and the expanded Navajo Mine.

Even though the energy threatened communities have individually and collectively refused to give their approval to the unwanted plant and expanded mine, DPA continues its high-pressure tactics at the local grassroots level. They are threatening grazing permit holders with permit revocation and livestock confiscation if they do not put their thumbprints on legally dubious grazing rights relinquishment forms and other right-of-way documents.

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