The Navajo Nation announced this week it
has signed a contract with renewable energy
companies to convert methane vented from its
oil producing operations in southeastern Utah
into more eco-friendly hydrogen.
The plan was announced at the Utah state
Capitol and hailed by Laura Nelson, who
heads the Utah Governor’s Office of Energy
Development, as a strategy that will help
with clean energy and lead to more tribal
sovereignty, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
“We have a partnership and organization
to deliver the mutual benefit of advancing
new commodity production while managing
emissions that have been associated with oil and
gas production,” Nelson said.
Navajo Nation Oil and Gas Co. technology
officer Bill McCabe said they will work with two
alternative energy companies named called