After relying for generations on coal for jobs and cash, the Navajo tribe was looking for a change. Instead—thanks to NTEC Chairman Tim McLaughlin—they got deeper into mining. How could the way out of coal be . . . more coal?many of the 175,000 Navajo who live on the 27,000 square miles of tribal lands that stretch across the borders of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The median household income hovers around $30,000 a year, and more than a quarter of homes have no electricity.
Delivering free coal is a strange task for NTEC, which is already an odd entity. The company was created seven years ago with the express purpose of transitioning the Navajo through the twilight of the coal business. It planned to do that in two ways.
Then, last August, NTEC announced a deal to acquire three enormous mines in Wyoming and Montana from bankrupt Cloud Peak Energy for about $100 million and the assumption of all cleanup costs. The acquisition increased NTEC’s coal output more than tenfold to nearly 60 million tons, 9% of total U.S. tonnage, making the Navajo America’s third-largest coal miner.
This might just be a case of a carpenter who sees every problem as a nail. Moseley has spent five decades working in the coal industry, and mining has been the reservation’s economic lodestone for just as long. The Four Corners region has some of the nation’s richest coal beds, and thousands of mining jobs paying an annual average of $100,000 once provided a foundation for the Navajo middle class. But it couldn’t last.
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