Think Everyone in this Land of Plenty has Electricity? You’re Wrong.
The people whose land we occupied so many years ago have not been given their fair share of our prosperity. Right now, there are more than 10,000 Native American households in Arizona that have no access to electricity. Shamefully, that’s 7% of all Native American households without electricity in America.
Arizona is making an effort to bring electricty to it’s Native American residents through a new program called the Tribal Rural Electrification Program (in PDF). Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano announced the new initiative Wednesday, saying the first phase will bring solar power to at least 100 reservation homes by the end of the year.
The Arizona Department of Commerce Energy Office will run the program, with the help of Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus’ Photovoltaic Testing Laboratory. Arizona utilities and solar power companies will also partner in the initiative.
What are other states doing?
August 31st, 2007 at 11:48 pm
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September 1st, 2007 at 2:25 am
As long as you help these people (natives) get solar cells, LED lights, solar furnaces, solar hot water heaters, high-R housing, low consumption/low voltage TVs and computers, and wind generators you will be really helping them live thier own lifestyle. If you give them (your aboriginals) standard electrical services like the rest of us, you will be snaring them into a commitment to our lifestyle - an unfair entrappment into a “white” lifestyle with all its obligations, including paying heavily to the copper wire industry, appliance industry and electrical service industry. working an eight to five to pay an electicity bill is not a privelige, its an obligation of a weaker less self-reliant way of life.
September 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 am
more nice stuff Max, thanks for sharing!