From: "Wahleah Johns" wahleah@gmail.com Ya'at'eeh,
Happy New Year to you all,

Peabody Coal Company and Salt River Project has pulled a fast one on our local Navajo and Hopi communities this pas holiday! Attached is the "Black Mesa Project EIS Fact Sheet" that local environmental justice and enviromental groups put together on what you should know about the Black Mesa Project Draft Enviromental Impact Statement. Public comment deadline for the Draft EIS is scheduled for Feburary 6, 2007. The Draft EIS is a 758-page document that we have been trying to decipher to make our comments, Peabody Western Coal Company and SRP seek the following:

• The expansion and Life-of-Mine permit for the Black Mesa Mine,
• The use of pristinge groundwater from the Navajo and Coconino Aquifer (6,000) acf/yr,
• A coal-washing facility,
• The re-opening and re-building of the 273-mile coal slurry pipeline used to transport coal,
• A new 108-mile water pipeline from Leupp, AZ to the Black Mesa Mine, The re-opening of one of the most polluting coal-fired power plants in the west-Mohave Generating Station located in Laughlin, Nevada,

** This plan would relocate 17 more families on Black Mesa! and prevent at least 55 Leupp area families from accessing part of their lands or even be relocated! **

Public hearings for the Draft EIS begin today in Window Rock January 2, 2007!

Anyone can submit comments and if you are able please submit them to the Office of Surface Mining: http://www.wrcc.osmre.gov/WR/BlackMesaEIS.htm

Ahee'hee, Wahleah Johns
Black Mesa Water Coalition
(928) 213-9760

*Scheduled hearings*

• Window Rock, Arizona - January 2, 2007, 6pm – 9pm in the Resource Room at the Navajo Nation Museum, Highway 64 and Loop Road.
• Forest Lake, Arizona - January 3, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Forest Lake Chapter House on Navajo Route 41 about 20 miles north of Pinon, Arizona.
• Moenkopi, Arizona - January 3, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Community Center.
• Kayenta, Arizona - January 4, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Monument Valley High School cafeteria, north Highway 163.
• Kykotsmovi, Arizona - January 4, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Veterans Center.
• Peach Springs, Arizona - January 9, 2007, noon to 3pm at the Hualapai Lodge, 900 Route 66.
• Kingman, Arizona - January 9, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Hampton Inn, 1791 Sycamore Avenue.
• Leupp, Arizona - January 9, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Leupp Chapter House on Navajo Route 15.
• Winslow, Arizona - January 10, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Winslow High School, Student Union, 600 E. Cherry Avenue.
• Laughlin, Nevada - January 10, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Laughlin Town Hall, 101 Civic Way.
• Leupp, Arizona - January 11, 2007, Noon to 4 p.m.. Leupp Chapter House on Navajo Route 15.
Flagstaff, Arizona - January 11, 2007, 6pm – 9pm at the Little America Hotel, 2515 East Butler Avenue.