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Navajo environmentalists offered money to drop energy project opposition
Original: Navajo environmentalists were offered money to drop opposition to energy project
Navajo environmentalists opposing an energy project were offered money to abandon their opposition, according to an NPR report. The disclosure has drawn attention to the pressures faced by Indigenous activists resisting energy development on tribal lands, and raised questions about who made the offers and whether such tactics are being used to silence dissent in the conflict over the project.
Why now: Fresh NPR reporting on alleged attempts to pay off Indigenous opponents of an energy project
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