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What Is At Stake With The Closing Of The Navajo Generating Station?
Published: Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 2:13pm
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Hundreds of coal miners and their families rallied outside of the Arizona state capitol Wednesday to protest the impending closing of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal plant on the Navajo Nation near Page in northern Arizona.
But Salt River Project, the plant’s owner, said saving it will take the appearance of a “unicorn.”
There’s a lot at stake here — from jobs to the future of energy production and the environmental impacts that has.
Ryan Randazzo covers energy issues for the Arizona Republic.