“… the BLM has ordered an immediate temporary suspension of SunZia’s activities authorized within the San Pedro Valley LNTP [Limited Notice to Proceed], covering an approximately 50-mile segment in Arizona,” —Tracy-Stone Manning, Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Manning’s order was issued yesterday, November 8, in response to the October 31 letter written by the Tohono O’odham Nation, San Carlos Apache Tribe, and Archaeology Southwest. This letter made an “urgent request” for an immediate halt to the harmful destruction of the San Pedro Valley by the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project, due to failures of the BLM to identify and consult with Native tribes regarding properties of traditional religious and cultural importance.

Director Stone-Manning’s letter orders an immediate temporary suspension of SunZia’s activities along 50 miles of the San Pedro Valley in response to the formal protest lodged in August by the San Carlos Apache Tribe, Zuni Tribe, Tohono O’odham Nation, and Archaeology Southwest, as well as to the aforementioned letter sent to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

Read the full letter | Read the article in the Tucson News