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By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 13, 2024
In the dirty business of faking green energy, Interior Department head Deb Haaland is being sued by the Hualapai Tribe for approval of a lithium mine targeting their sacred spring. It is the same lithium mine where an Australian company has hired the head of a Navajo Nation enterprise to lead the drilling for lithium and violating the sacred.
Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, is now being sued by three tribes in Arizona for ongoing destruction of religious and historic places, sacred places where Tohono O'odham, San Carlos Apache, and Hualapai have offered their prayers since time immemorial.
In the lawsuit, Hualapai tell of the drilling for lithium, and the way the Interior's Bureau of Land Management concealed the plans for the lithium mine.
"Ha'Kamwe' is part of a sacred cultural landscape recounted in what is known collectively as the Salt Spring Trail. Ha'Kamwe' means 'warm spring.' The spring is specifically recounted by one of the Hualapai keepers of the Salt Song Trail cycle," the lawsuit states, recounting the sacred and private nature of the Salt Song Trail.
"Since time immemorial, the Hualapai people have gone to Ha'Kamwe' for healing and prayer, and to conduct ceremonies related to birth, young women's coming of age, and other important life transitions."
The mainstream media has failed to reveal that Debra Haaland is specifically named in the lawsuit.
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| SunZia's bulldozers destroying the San Pedro Valley, and the Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apaches ancient village sites, medicine gathering places and burial places. The region was the homeland of the ancestors of San Xavier O'odham and those who lived here before them, the Hohokam. |
Haaland is also named in the federal lawsuit filed by Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations to halt the destruction of historic villages, medicine gathering areas and burial places now being bulldozed for the transmission lines of a wind energy project in southern Arizona.
Tohono O'odham describe its ancestral territory in the San Pedro, home to the Sobaipuri O'odham, ancestors of O'odham in San Xavier. They are descendants of the ancient Hohokam who lived here.
The Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations filed for a restraining order on Haaland, which was denied by a Tucson federal judge, but the tribes continue the legal battle. Haaland, present at the groundbreaking of Pattern Energy's wind project, is promoting the SunZia transmission line to take wind energy from New Mexico to California, now cutting a path of destruction across pristine regions of the Southwest. Pattern Energy in San Francisco is owned by the Canada Pension Fund.
The mainstream media is also concealing the fact that the CEO of the Navajo Nation enterprise which claims to be transitioning to green energy is heading the project to desecrate Hualapai's sacred ceremonial place. The so-called Navajo Transitional Energy Company also owns coal mines in Wyoming and Montana.
The Navajo Transitional Energy Company stated in March that it had signed the mining agreement and its CEO Vern Lund would lead the mining operation for the Australian company.
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| https://navenergy.com/mining-services-agreement-with-ntec-for-development-production-at-big-sandy/ |
Hualapai's sacred place would be surrounded on three sides by the proposed exploratory drilling. Ha'Kamwe' is on Cholla Canyon Ranch land, held in trust by the Interior for the Hualapai Tribe.
The lawsuit reveals that the BLM concealed the project for eight months from Hualapai.
The Australian company, whose name is actually Hawthorne in Australia, changed its name in Arizona from "Big Sandy, Inc." to "Arizona Lithium."
This comes as lithium is sought for the new wave of batteries for electric vehicles, computers and cell phones. Around the world, lithium, copper and cobalt mining are disregarding the lives of Indigenous Peoples. In Africa, children are dying in mines and in South America, Indigenous women and children are being shot from helicopters as they defend their land, water and communities from mining. The mines are primarily owned by companies in Canada, Australia and the U.S.
Meanwhile, the Tohono O’odham Nation and the San Carlos Apache Tribe, along with the Center for Biological Diversity and Archaeology Southwest, sued the Interior's BLM over its approval of the SunZia Transmission project and requested construction be paused, alleging the federal agency failed to properly review how the project would impact cultural heritage resources in the area as required by the National Historic Preservation Act, reports Inside Climate News.
"A federal judge ruled that, despite the San Pedro Valley being 'one of the most culturally intact landscapes in Southern Arizona,' containing 12,000 years of human history, plaintiffs were too late with their objection."
Manufactured Fake Green Energy
In the fake clean green energy industry, Interior Sec. Haaland announced in Farmington, N.M., that the atomic bomb industry, Los Alamos Labs, already poisoning Pueblo homeland, will lead the energy transition to so-called clean energy in the Four Corners region. The Four Corners region is already scarred with the legacy of cancer and death from uranium mining and the remaining scattered radioactive tailings, as well as coal mining and poisoned air and water from decades of coal mining and power plants.
Now, new uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens Havasupai water, and the haul route to the uranium mill, located on White Mesa Ute ancestral land, endangers Supai, Paiute, Navajo, Hopi and Ute.
At the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in July in Geneva, Indigenous Peoples reported the widespread abuse of rights by companies and governments claiming to be undertaking the transition to clean green energy. In its final report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, it listed as a priority the adherence to the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the necessity for the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples for projects and development.
Excerpts from the Havasupai's lawsuit to halt the lithium mine, filed by Earthjustice on August 2, 2024:
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| https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25033411-complaint_82024 |
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