Huge Megadam planned! not in South America or Asia but in the USA

[Niri Te]

I should have placed "they need the energy" within quotation marks, denoting the fact that those words were what the people and State Government believed.
Ateyo le Syaksyuk and I live on 80 acres out in extremely remote Hudspeth County Texas, where there are only six paved roads, (one of them being Interstate 10 running through the extreme southern section) of the second largest in land mass, yet least populated County in the State.
I am typing this on a nuclear powered notebook. It is nuclear powered, by a fusion reactor that is 93 million miles away, which powers both our solar panels, and our wind generator.
Our wind generator has never killed a bird out here, nor have any of the six wind generators that I know of that power the homes of my neighbors. The reason id that each of us runs a wind plant that uses props that are between
2 1/2, and 6 feet in diameter, NOT the huge ones that are used in the white forests of them in the commercial wind farms.
THAT is what I believe that we, as a nation should do, as much as possible, EACH of us disconnect from the grid, and generate our OWN power, in a manner that is as environmentally neutral as is practical, given their monetary ability.
Our place is 100 percent energy self sufficient, and we do that just from my V.A. disability checks, so I know that you DON'T need to be wealthy to do it,
you just need to be WILLING to do it.
I may be returning to Samoa, bringing ma yawnetu with me for her first view of Pandora on earth. We moved out to this incredibly poor County with one of the lowest population densities in the entire lower 48 states, only to have a government sponsored company find RARE EARTH METALS underneath three mountains in the County. The are starting exploratory drilling under the mountains this coming Spring.
There is a particular lizard that lives in the area, that is endangered, and we will try to USE this fact to shut down the mines, but were already told that because this is practically the only known deposit of the R.E.M.'s, NONE of the Environmental laws will apply as these mines "Are in the interest of National Security".
Well there are only 3,000 people living in the county of 8'000 square miles, and 2,000 of them live in Fort Hancock, which is at the extreme southwest corner of the County. The rest of the County has a population density of one person per 7 square miles. Most of these people speak little or no English, and are Very poorly educated, dirt poor, and have ZERO ecological sensibilities at all. This is one fight that "RGA" will win.
In THIS fight, Eywa will NOT come to our aid, and ANY use of force on the part of whatever few people in this area will be viewed as "Eco Terrorism" and put down quickly with whatever force is viewed necessary by the Government.
A good Tsamsiyu knows the fights that they can win, and avoids the ones where they would be both throwing their lives away, AND strengthening the public relations hand of their enemy.
We will probably be in Samoa late next year, NEVER to return. I speak the language, and have many connections on the islands.
Niri Te (known as Tai Tae Ao in Samoa)