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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Jerry Redfern

With Promises of Money, Controversial Gas Pipeline on Navajo Nation Passes First Hurdle

An undocumented wellhead sits in the Rattlesnake Oil Field near Shiprock, New Mexico. A proposed natural gas pipeline would pass about a mile north of this spot, carrying the fossil fuel across the Navajo Nation. Photo: Jerry Redfern.

A 234-mile stretch of pipeline that could carry natural gas or natural gas-hydrogen blends across the Navajo Nation is a step closer to reality.

The Resources and Development Committee of the Navajo Nation Council passed a resolution at the end of March to conditionally allow Tallgrass Energy — through its subsidiary GreenView Resources — to begin work on a section of a natural gas pipeline that will traverse the Navajo Nation, running from a spot near Farmington, New Mexico, to another spot roughly 40 miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona. It is the only vote the Nation will take on this measure. It is also the only segment of the pipeline to be publicly announced.

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