There’s a driving demand for more renewable energy projects such as wind and solar. In the rush to build, important cultural resources are threatened. The news outlet ProPublica wrote about an instance in Washington state where an archaeological survey paid for by the wind developers failed to list potential cultural sites that were obvious to state regulators. Tribes in Arizona are at odds with a solar project that would put a power transmission line across traditional cultural places. We’ll look at the intersection of sustainable energy and sacred and important sites.
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B. “Toastie” Oaster (citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), staff writer at High Country News
Noah Oliver, geographer and archaeologist for the Yakama Nation’s Cultural Resources Program
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan, and Hidatsa), director of tribal collaboration, outreach, and advocacy for Archaeology Southwest
John Welch, director of the landscape and site protection program at Archaeology Southwest and archaeology professor at Simon Fraser University