“We just want it to be a fair deal”
The federal government has rejected claims by the Navajo Nation that the tribe would lose millions in annual revenue because of prices set by Western Refining Pipeline Co. to transport crude oil on a pipeline stretching from West Texas to northwestern New Mexico.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled last month that the tribe has not shown it has a substantial economic interest in the matter that would warrant a protest.
‘… the Navajo protestors lack standing because they are not shippers on Western, they do not intend to ship on Western, and they have not made a valid transportation request to Western for shipments,’ the commission said in a March 7 filing accepting Western’s tariffs. Read more
