According to Resolution #LNK-12-036 of National Congress of American Indians, the Bureau of Land Management “has failed to conduct meaningful consultation with Tribes, particularly with CRIT (the Colorado River Indian Tribe), and has taken actions that violate federal laws which include provisions designed to protect Tribes’ sacred places and cultural resources, such as the National Historic Preservation Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Administrative Procedures Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.” “… these projects are destroying our cultural resources, desecrating our sacred places, impairing our abilities to practice our traditional and religious beliefs, and severing our physical and spiritual connections to lands that are fundamental to our cultural identities…” This document mentions “over 40 proposed solar and wind renewable energy projects … within a 50-mile radius of the Colorado River Indian Reservation,” which includes the solar projects at Blythe, Ivanpah, Palen, McCoy, Rio Mesa, Genesis and Desert Harvest. The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona also passed a resolution against the fast tracking on these projects.Get the Story:
Roy L. Hales: Is the US Department of the Interior Committing Cultural Genocide And Ecocide? (Clean Technica 8/22)
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