Tall Grass Energy, an anti-CO2 company headquartered in the Denver area, is attempting to construct a hydrogen production facility and attached pipeline on the Navajo reservation in the Black Mesa region of northeastern Arizona. It's meeting some local opposition. Despite being offered money, the local natives, unseen and unheard in their near desert homeland, are worried about the water requirements of the proposed plant and piping.
It isn't enough that the Navajos and other tribes have been forced to settle for marginal properties that the Anglo invaders once deemed worthless. Now that a potentially lucrative financial situation shimmers on the horizon, the capitalists want the use of even this barren and unforgiving landscape.
Fortunately, some of the Navajos have taken advantage of educational opportunities that have enabled them to deal with these matters through the use of the arcane US legal system. Hopefully, they'll be able to come to their own conclusions and determine their own fate in this matter.
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