Editing Navajo Nation (section)

====Renewables====
In early 2008, the Navajo Nation and Houston-based [[International Piping Products]] entered into an agreement to monitor wind resources, with the potential to build a 500-[[megawatt]] [[wind farm]] some 50 miles (80&nbsp;km) north of [[Flagstaff, Arizona]]. Known as the Navajo Wind Project, it is proposed as the second commercial wind farm in Arizona after Iberdrola's [[Dry Lake Wind Power Project]] between [[Holbrook, Arizona|Holbrook]] and [[Overgaard-Heber, Arizona|Overgaard-Heber]]. The project is to be built on Aubrey Cliffs in [[Coconino County, Arizona]].<ref name="windproj">[http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/08/17/navajo-owned-wind-farm-works-arizona-47633 ICTMN Staff, "Navajo-Owned Wind Farm in Works in Arizona"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230112329/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/08/17/navajo-owned-wind-farm-works-arizona-47633 |date=December 30, 2014 }}, ''Indian Country Today,'' 17 August 2011; accessed 12 December 2016</ref>

In December 2010, the President and Navajo Council approved a proposal by the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA), an enterprise of the Navajo Nation, and [[Edison Mission Energy]] to develop an 85-megawatt wind project at Big Boquillas Ranch, which is owned by the Navajo Nation and is located 80 miles west of Flagstaff. The NTUA plans to develop this into a 200-megawatt capacity at peak. This has been planned as the first majority-owned native project; NTUS was to own 51%. An estimated 300–350 people will construct the facility; it will have 10 permanent jobs.<ref name="windproj"/> In August 2011, the Salt River Project, an Arizona utility, was announced as the first utility customer. Permitting and negotiations involve tribal, federal, state and local stakeholders.<ref name="wind">[http://navajotimes.com/news/2011/0811/080411wind.php Alastair Lee Bitsoi, "Wind project holds promise for tribe"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220164057/http://navajotimes.com/news/2011/0811/080411wind.php |date=December 20, 2016 }}, ''Navajo Times,'' 4 August 2011; accessed 12 December 2016</ref> The project is intended not only as a shift to renewable energy but to increase access for tribal members; an estimated 16,000 homes are without access to electricity.<ref name="carr">[https://law.seattleu.edu/Documents/ailj/Fall%202013/Carr-Final.pdf Gerald Carr, "Asserting Treaty Rights to Harness the Wind on the Great Lakes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220200306/https://law.seattleu.edu/Documents/ailj/Fall%202013/Carr-Final.pdf |date=December 20, 2016 }}, ''American Indian Law Journal,'' Fall 2013; accessed 12 December 2016</ref>

The wind project has foundered because of a "long feud between Cameron [Chapter] and Window Rock [central government] over which company to back".<ref name="cameron"/> Both companies pulled out. Negotiations with Clipper Windpower looked promising, but that company was put up for sale after the recession.<ref name="cameron">[ Cindy Yurth, "Waiting for a fair wind"], ''Navajo Times,'' 29 November 2012; accessed 12 December 2016</ref>