But looking out from that same vista in February, Jose saw only unwelcome development. To the south, bulldozers were carving roads and clearing land for a massive copper mine on the western slope of the Santa Ritas. To the east, construction was underway on a 550-mile power line that would cut through a 50-mile portion of the valley. While the power line would not technically cross the tribal land of the Tohono O'odham Nation, whose government Jose leads, it would intersect areas that his people consider part of their ancestral heritage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/04/tribes-clean-energy-biden-sunzia/

Source: Washington Post March 05, 2024 08:40 UTC