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So, while I'm all for more #RenewbleEnergy, like some members of the #NavajoNation, I am skeptical about where the energy output will be going... Will it be powering #Datacenters ?
Large #solar project on Navajo Nation leaves residents skeptical
As renewable energy expands, questions about how renewable the projects are regulated on #Diné land emerge.
Christopher Lomahquahu, September 8, 2026
Excerpt: "Hatathlie added that residents were troubled by how the power would be distributed, since it would not flow directly to area homes but would instead be sent to a broader electrical grid.
"He likened the #PaintedDesertPowerProject to the former #NavajoGeneratingStation, a coal plant on the Navajo Nation that produced electricity that powered cities outside the nation.
" 'If you look at the Navajo Generating Station over there in Page, you know that generating station didn’t power Page at all,' Hatathlie said. 'Zero.' "
Read more:
https://www.hcn.org/issues/58-9/large-solar-project-on-navajo-nations-leaves-residents-skeptical/#NoDatacenters #EnergyIndependence #MicroGrids #Offgrid #NativeAmericanNews
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It’s Such a Blessing: The Farmers Embracing Solar Arrays
Dowell / Getty Images The solar farm where Jess Gray’s sheep were giving birth was only four miles away but after a February ice storm this year, it took her more than an hour to get there in her pickup truck. Fallen trees and power lines littered the roads. Ice coated the ground and encrusted the wires of the chain link fence enclosing her flock. Gray was anxious to see if any had survived. “I got to the farm and my sheep were lambing in the middle of it,” she recalled. “Lambs […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/13/its-such-a-blessing-the-farmers-embracing-solar-arrays/
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Public #EV #Chargers Rival Gas Pumps in the US When Home Charging is Included. #EVs #Respiratory #CleanAir #Autos #EnergyIndependence #Renewables
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Helion Energy Is Building A Fusion Power Plant. Can Its Technology Deliver?
Helion Just east of Malaga, Wash. a farm town in apple country the Columbia River runs between basalt bluffs past the Rock Island Dam, which has turned water into electricity for the Pacific Northwest since 1933. Now, on a flat stretch of land nearby, a very different kind of power project is taking shape. Helion Energy, one of the world’s best-funded private fusion companies, is building what it calls Orion: A machine it says will become the world’s first fusion power plant.....Continue […] -
Rishi Sunak to ‘delay petrol car and gas boiler bans’ in row back on net zero pledges | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-net-zero-general-election-b2414549.html#NetZero
#Petrol
#Diesel
#FossilFuels
#Sunak
#GasBoilers
#PetrolCarBan
#DieselCarBan
#FossilFuelCarBan
#Skidmore
#Tories
#GreenNewDealRising
#BrokenPromises
#GreenpeaceUK
#EnergyAndClimateIntelligenceUnit
#EnergyIndependence