{"id":64003,"date":"2018-07-17T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/navajo-nation-begins-negotiations-with-possible-new-coal-plant-owner\/"},"modified":"2018-07-17T19:47:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:47:24","slug":"navajo-nation-begins-negotiations-with-possible-new-coal-plant-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/navajo-nation-begins-negotiations-with-possible-new-coal-plant-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Nation begins negotiations with possible new coal plant owner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Navajo Generating Station near Page is scheduled to shut down in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The plant\u2019s coal supplier has been leading an effort to find a new owner.<\/p>\n<p>Navajo President Russell Begaye says the tribe is negotiating with New York-based Avenue Capital for ownership and one of its subsidiaries, Middle River Power, as an operator.<\/p>\n<p>Begaye told lawmakers Monday that an agreement could be ready for them to consider by October. He acknowledged it\u2019s an ambitious time frame for a process that generally takes years.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental groups have said the coal plant is not worth saving and have urged tribal officials to focus on renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navajo Generating Station near Page is scheduled to shut down in December 2019. The plant\u2019s coal supplier has been leading an effort to find a new owner. Navajo President Russell Begaye says the tribe is negotiating with New York-based Avenue Capital for ownership and one of its subsidiaries, Middle River Power, as an operator. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1655],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-navajo-nation"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64003"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}