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Zuni Side Up
Zuni tribe member Pablo Padilla talks about beating back a strip mine |
Hillary Rosner |
07 Aug 2003 |
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| Earlier this week, Native Americans and environmentalists won a surprising victory when a power company abandoned plans to build a highly controversial coal mine in New Mexico. Zuni Salt Lake. Photo: Zuni Salt Lake Coalition. For 20 years, the Salt River Project, an Arizona-based utility company, had sought to build an 18,000-acre strip mine near a salt lake in Western New Mexico. Th ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, mining, New Mexico (all these topics) |
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