Grant to bring renewable energy to Navajo homes

A company owned by American Indians has been awarded more than $500,000 to bring electricity from solar power to Navajo Nation homes that now lack electricity.

[Juan]

And all of this time I thought that Fire Water was used to heat
their hogans.

[soft landing]

Long overdue.

[Ballin Superstar]

Juan wrote:

And all of this time I thought that Fire Water was used to heat
their hogans.

Wow juan, you are so clever! Did it take your 5th grade education to come up with such a clever quote? With a name like "juan" I would be the last person to make stereotypical jokes. d1ck head

[John]

So how much will the monthly bill be to those home owners, and is someone supposed to go out and wire up their homes as part of this deal?? Just wondering about the details.

[CornDaddy]

I read this in the Journal last week. IIRC, they said in that article that the number of homes to be covered by the grant was 21.

[Lobo Viejo]

The Navajo Nation contains a high percentage of families living in homes without indoor plumbing and electricity. Utility construction projects funded by the government during the last several decades, including hundreds of millions of dollars spent in urban areas like ABQ, did not reach these areas of the Navajo Nation.

This project would spend about $23,809 per home to provide these Navajo families with electricity, which most of us have never lived without during our entire lifetimes. This does not seem out of line, especially given how many of us have benefitted from government funded contruction projects in the past.

[hogon dweller]

Why should the American taxpay have to pay for this...the tribe has money...lots of it. Yet for some reason the poor Navajo can't pay for it themselves. Just drive across the rez and look at the taxdollar housing projects totally distroyed by these people who live handout to handout. Many of the old people who live out there doing without, choose to live without. The young move into the new housing only to put a horse in the backyard and a goat in the garage. They never plant trees or grass and drive on the sidewalks up to the front door. So again why should the tax payers help those who will not help themselves?

[skinwalkerhunter]

from what i've read thus far, there isn't a drop of intelligence in here. i figure that a majority of the navajo people don't want any d*** electricity or d*** running water. they just want to be left alone. more things to shove into the faces of natives. so people in their ten foot walled communities can b**** and complain about how natives have it so good. this the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA folks, cry about us spending monies in central america, south america, iraq, afganistan, mexico, china, etc. having to send our sons, daughters, nephews, nieces all over the world to uphold world stability. looks like to me we have become more unstable with our own selves or immediate neighbors or fellow country men and women. we've become a chained and trapped animal gnawing at a limb trying to get free. please be cool and level headed, why add fuel to a spark.