Greenwashing -- Biden, Haaland and the Navajo Nation's Runaway Train: Oil, Gas, Coal and Lithium

 

Ha ‘Kamwe is a hot spring sacred to the Hualapai Tribe in Northern Arizona. An Australian company is threatening the spring with a proposed lithium mining project.

The Green Hoax -- Biden, Haaland and the Navajo Government's Runaway Train: Oil, Gas, Coal and Lithium

Brenda Norrell

Censored News 

While President Biden and Interior Sec. Deb Haaland push for more oil and gas wells and fracking in the Greater Chaco region -- the Navajo Government's "Navajo Transitional Energy Company" is pushing coal mines, and now plans to join an Australian company to devastate the sacred land of the Hualapai with lithium mining. 

Lithium, in demand for electric vehicle batteries, is part of the fake green solutions to climate change.

Flying under the banner of energy transition, the Biden administration and Navajo Nation are pushing the most polluting and devastating drilling and mining on earth.

The Climate Trace map revealed at the U.N. Climate Summit in Egypt shows the San Juan, N.M., oil and gas fields, and Navajo power plants and coal mines, are among those polluting the world's air, emitting greenhouse gases causing global warming, and poisoning the air and causing respiratory illnesses.

The Navajo government's energy transition team is operating four coal mines and a power plant, and invested in a Texas company mining rare earth minerals.

Interior E-mails Reveal Interior Shrinking of Bears Ears was for Oil, Uranium and Sports Hunters

Sports hunters used their connection to fellow hunter Donald Trump, Jr., to lobby for the opening for more of
Bears Ears to hunters. Photo from Interior e-mails.

Interior E-mails Reveal Interior Shrinking of Bears Ears was for Oil, Uranium and Sports Hunters

Interior has land auction scheduled for Bears Ears area land on March 20, 2018, unless it is halted

Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News

The New York Times reports that oil was the reason for the shrinking of Bears Ears. The article also reveals Interior meetings with a uranium company, Energy Fuels Resources, concerning uranium at Bears Ears.
The 20,000 Interior e-mails also reveal the interest in available coal at Grand Staircase Escalante and natural gas at the Canyon of the Ancients.
Further, Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke planned a private dinner with the head of a sportsmen group, Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, a connection made possible by Donald Trump, Jr., who went hunting with the head of the sportsmen's group in Utah. 
Sportsmen were lobbying the Interior for hunts of the free roaming bison, elk, big horn sheep, cougar, black bear, and more, in the Bears Ears area.
The e-mails also reveal the sarcastic attitude of the head of the Bureau of Reclamation toward Native Americans, as shown below, one of 20,000 e-mails which the New York Times gained access to.
The statements from Native American Nations opposing the shrinkage of Bears Ears and destruction are included in these e-mails.
One e-mail points out how little Zinke knows about Indian Tribes, after Zinke suggested Tribes become corporations.
The e-mails also show motorcyclists contacting the Interior, eager to gain access to back trails.
(Below) Interior Sec. Zinke posted this photo during his visit to Bears Ears, as the Interior prepared to open more areas for exploiters. Hunters contacted Zinke after hunting with Donald Trump Jr, according to e-mails. The Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife continued to support Zinke in November, when Zinke promoted big game hunts in this news release.
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New York Times -- Oil was central in decision to shrink Bears Ears, internal e-mails show

By Eric Lipton and Lisa Friedman
March 2, 2018
WASHINGTON — Even before President Trump officially opened his high-profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.The debate started as early as March 2017, when an aide to Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, asked a senior Interior Department official to consider shrinking Bears Ears National Monument in the southeastern corner of the state. Under a longstanding program in Utah, oil and natural gas deposits within the boundaries of the monument could have been used to raise revenue for public schools had the land not been under federal protection. Read article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/climate/bears-ears-national-monument.html

(Below) The Bureau of Reclamation's sarcastic comments about Indian Tribes, from E-mails in New York Times article:
Alan Mikkelsen is the Bureau of Reclamation's Deputy Commissioner.

ACCESS Interior E-mails and Documents here:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4391967-National-Monuments-a-Look-at-the-Debate-From.html#document/

Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument: Inside the Interior Department Decision

The New York Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request for copies of documents related to the decision by the Trump administration's Department of Interior to shrink two National Monuments, a special category of federal lands intended to protect them from development. The Times received 25,000 pages of documents, but only after it filed a lawsuit in federal court. Here are a few of the key ones.

Objections from Utah Delegation Even Before Bears Ears Created 

Utah State Board of Education Objected Too, Citing Mineral Rights 

Indian Tribe Supported Creating Bears Ears 

An Early Look by Trump Era Interior: Metals and Fossil Fuels at Bears Ears 

Interior Notices Patagonia/Google videos re Bears Ears 

Intervention by Sen Orrin Hatch's Office 

Hatch's Office: This New Boundry Would Exclude "All Known Minerals Conflicts" 

One of Many Efforts by Outdoor Industry to Intervene 

Minerals Review at Bears Ears, Examined Again 

Indian Tribes Call for Bears Ears to be Left as Is 

Hunting Group Intervenes Too, With Photos of Kills  

Interior Department Official Criticizes Indian Tribes 

Formal Review of National Monuments Begins 

Zinke Travels to Utah, Discusses Concerns with State Officials 

Zinke Schedule to Visit Bears Ears 

More Questions about Mines and Impact of National Monuments 

Staff Report on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 

Coal Potential at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 

Staff Report on Bears Ears  

Current and Former National Park Service Employees Voice Their Opinion p.138

White House Decides to Keep Interior Memo Justifying Move to Shrink Monuments Private 

"To be remembered" National Wildlife Federation 

Natural Gas Production at Canyons of the Ancients 

FYI to Interior Bosses: Outside Magazine on National Monuments Debate 

Energy Fuels Resources Meeting Details  

Indian Tribes Repeat Support for Maintaining Monument 

Motorcyclists Welcome Access to More Federal Lands  

Below: Zinke's private dinner with sports hunter organization's head, after hunting with Donald Trump, Jr. in Utah.

Read more:

Donald Trump Jr. and his Utah hunter buddy, all part of the shrinking of Bears Ears for the exploiters. http://kutv.com/news/local/utah-sportsman-hunts-with-trumps-sons-calls-them-authentic-blue-collar-kids

Lakota Tony Black Feather: 'American flag represents racist nation' on the Stronghold 2002

Tony Black Feather, Lakota, on Stronghold
Photo by Brenda Norrell

Tony Black Feather, Lakota, on the Stronghold in 2002 -- speaking out about the American flag, racism, the Black Hills and Iraq
Censored News new series 'Racism in America'

By Brenda Norrell 
Censored News

(Oct. 1, 2002) STRONGHOLD TABLE, S.D. Lakota elder Tony Black Feather told the United Nations that the American flag represents a racist nation that violates natural and spiritual laws, dishonors treaties and engages in a game plan of corporate greed.

In his statement delivered to the United Nations and distributed here on Stronghold Table, Black Feather pressed for disarmament and peace as President Bush pressed for war in Iraq.

Urging America to “come clean in the eyes of the world,” Black Feather said people often ask him about the red, white and blue of the American flag

“I tell them that the aboriginal Lakota people of this country look at this flag as a piece of red, white and blue cloth that stands for the foreign racist system that has oppressed Indigenous peoples for centuries.

Hillary leaves tracks in the oil

Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, meeting with Saudi Arabia.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton targeted Indigenous Peoples defending their homelands. Millions have flowed into the Clinton Foundation from oil and mining.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English
Translation into Dutch at Alice Holemans, NAIS

Update 2016: Also see 21 new revelations about Hillaey's ties to hidden uranium mi g and exploitation of Indigenous lands
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/03/21-new-clinton-cash-revelations-that-have-imperiled-hillary-clintons-campaign/

While Secretary of the State Department, Hillary Clinton orchestrated a spy network targeting Indigenous activists throughout the Americas who were defending their homelands from drilling, mining and development. Those targeted in the dragnet spanned the Americas, from the Mohawks in Canada to Mapuche in Chile. 

Further, while Indigenous Peoples were dying defending their lands from mining in Peru, the US and four other countries met as a pro-mining alliance in Peru and reported in to Hillary Clinton, as exposed in the Wikileaks cables.

Now, a Swiss banking leak reveals that the Clinton Foundation has received millions from Canadian mining magnate Frank Giusta. Further, a top donor to the Clinton Foundation is Saudi Arabia, a country leading in human rights violations which has teamed up with the United States to orchestrate a regime partnership.

The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation now has $277 million in assets. The Charity Index says it can not consider it a non-profit.

Bill Clinton and Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra posed as humanitarians while Giustra bilked Indigenous Peoples globally out of their lands and resources for gold and copper mining. Then, millions flowed into the Clinton Foundation from Giustra.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/02/swiss-leak-mining-magnate-and-clinton.html

Now, the Clinton Foundations' Saudi Arabia financiers have been exposed. Saudi Arabia is the world's number one producer of oil, and has the second  largest oil deposits, with Venezuela having the largest.

Further, the Clinton Foundation received hundreds of thousands of dollars from an agency promoting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, according to exposure by the Wall Street Journal.

The Clinton Foundation's number one donor is The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, a hedge fund of steel, coal and energy investors.

The following article describes how the five country pro-mining alliance met in Peru while Indigenous Peoples were dying defending their lands. In the cables, the US Ambasssador reported in to Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State.

Censored News wrote a series of articles about spying on Indigenous Peoples while Hillary Clinton headed the State Department, as exposed by Wikileaks in the cables. Hillary Clinton demanded DNA and iris scans of leaders of state and others targeted, in her cables to Ambassadors.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Wikileaks exposed State Department cables stating that a core group of diplomats formed an alliance with mining companies globally to promote and protect mining interests. The diplomats were from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa.

New York Times' Copycat Journalism: Tex Hall and Blood Oil

The top article above by The New York Times, published today, has a very similar title, 
and similar facts, to the Censored News article in February.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

The New York Times has finally covered Chairman Tex Hall and the corruption in the oil and gas industry on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota.

The New York Times article today has almost the same title as Censored News original article published in February, as you can see above. Copy cat journalism is never flattering, especially when those who did the original work are not given credit, including those of us who are unpaid and do this as a labor of love.

Meanwhile, the Censored News original article on the resolution to suspend Tex Hall was the most read article at Censored News in 2014. Thank you to everyone who provided documents and photos.

Here's the original Censored News series published in February and March of this year.

Censored News: Tex Hall: Blood OIl and the Murder Probe (Feb 2014)
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/tex-hall-blood-oil-and-murder-probe.html

Censored News: Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/by-brenda-norrell-censored-news-new.html

Censored News: Independent investigator of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/03/independent-investigator-of-tex-hall-is.html

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Thanks to Alice Holemans at NAIS for the Dutch translation!

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* NEW YORK TIMES ‘COPYCAT’ JOURNALISTIEK : TEX HALL EN OLIE CORRUPTIE

 Door Brenda Norrell: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Vertaald door NAIS: www.denaisgazet.be

Het artikel in The New York Times heeft dezelfde titel, en geeft gelijkaardige feiten zoals gepubliceerd in Censored News in februari

De New York Times heeft eindelijk de verslaggeving over Tex Hall en de corruptie in de olie en gas industrie in de Mandan, Hidatsa en Arikara Nation in Noord Dakota, gepubliceerd.

Het artikel in de New York Times article draagt bijna dezelfde titel als het oorspronkelijke bericht dat Censored News in februari gepubliceerd heeft.

Copycat journalistiek is nooit flatterend , vooral niet wanneer diegenen die het oorspronkelijke werk gedaan hebben geen erkenning kregen, waaronder ook zij die er niet voor worden betaald en dit doen met liefde en toewijding.

Ondertussen was het oorspronkelijke artikel in Censored News over de resolutie om Tex Hall te schorsen het meest gelezen artikel in Censored News in 2014.

Dank aan iedereen die de documenten en foto’s bezorgden.

Hieronder is de oorspronkelijk serie gepubliceerd in Censored News in Februari en maart van dit jaar.

Censored News: Tex Hall: Blood OIl and the Murder Probe (Feb 2014)

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/tex-hall-blood-oil-and-murder-probe.html

Censored News: Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/by-brenda-norrell-censored-news-new.html

Censored News: Independent investigator of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/03/independent-investigator-of-tex-hall-is.html