Tuesday, October 1, 2024 – Tribes push for more power over power lines

Native America Calling

The increasing demand for power is prompting challenges from a number of tribes who say the means to transmit that power is harming culturally significant tribal land. The Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni, and San Carlos Apache tribes were dealt a legal setback by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year in their opposition to a proposed $10 billion transmission line through a pristine Arizona canyon. And pueblos and other tribes say they are concerned about additional transmission capacity planned to boost power at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. In both cases, tribal officials say the proposals did not adequately take cultural and archaeological significance into consideration.

GUESTS

Stephanie Stringer, deputy manager for business, security, and mission for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos field office

Reyes DeVore (Jemez Pueblo), project manager for the Pueblo Action Alliance

Break 1 Music: The Dance [2007 Studio Version] (song) Robert Mirabal (artist) In the Blood (album)

Break 2 Music: Mr. Businessman’s Blues (song) DM Lafortune (artist) Beauty and Hard Times (album)