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Judge rules against expansion of Navajo mine; Environmental impact was not adequately assessed
Farmington-based Navajo Transitional Energy Company on the Navajo Nation has applied to expand mining operations by about 12.7 million tons of coal at its Navajo Mine.
But a U.S. District Court judge in Denver ruled that the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement did not fully take into account the environmental impacts as a result of the expansion, which would solely feed the nearby Four Corners Power Plant.
Those assessments are governed by the National Environmental Policy Act.
Environmentalists filed a lawsuit in 2012 to block the expansion, focusing on mercury pollution from burning the mined coal.
U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane said in a written ruling that OSM improperly limited the scope of its environmental assessment by failing to consider the combustion-related impacts of the proposed expansion.
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20150305/NEWS01/150309904/-1/News01/Judge-rules-against-expansion-of-Navajo-mine-
But a U.S. District Court judge in Denver ruled that the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement did not fully take into account the environmental impacts as a result of the expansion, which would solely feed the nearby Four Corners Power Plant.
Those assessments are governed by the National Environmental Policy Act.
Environmentalists filed a lawsuit in 2012 to block the expansion, focusing on mercury pollution from burning the mined coal.
U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane said in a written ruling that OSM improperly limited the scope of its environmental assessment by failing to consider the combustion-related impacts of the proposed expansion.
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20150305/NEWS01/150309904/-1/News01/Judge-rules-against-expansion-of-Navajo-mine-
