Editorial board | The Arizona Republic
It sounds like something lifted from a business person’s list of complaints about federal tax policies:
Users of power generated by the Navajo Generating Station near Page — including the people supplying Colorado River water to the Valley — cannot make rational business plans without some degree of certainty about where they stand in Washington, D.C.
Stuck between the Environmental Protection Agency and a hard place, they chose a path of least resistance. Sort of like water itself. They found a way to appease the EPA and move on with some reasonable expectation of their future costs for water and power.
In a nutshell, that is the driving force behind a historic choice by the owners of the Navajo Generating Station — the largest coal-fired energy plant in the West — to cut back its energy production by about a third in coming years.
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