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Now two years later Remington is apparently back on the table and the discussion is still happening in secret. The Budget and Finance Committee, during a June 23 special meeting, tabled legislation 0133-20, sponsored by the committee’s chair Jamie Henio and co-sponsored by Speaker Seth Damon, which may have to do with the sale.

“For them to survive during a pandemic with zero dollars?” said Chee. “They’re in a really tough bind. I can’t understand how Navajo Nation overlooks that.” 

McLaughlin stated in the release, “It is very exciting to play a role in developing two of the key components to a viable solar-powered future — the minerals and metals necessary for the infrastructure and the solar array that will generate the power on Navajo land.”