ATNI: Tribal Convention To Discuss Fossil Fuel Exports - Monday (9/16) the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians will meet in Coeur d’Alene for their annual convention. Representatives from more than 50 tribes around the region including California, Nevada and Alaska will come together to discuss a variety of tribal business.

ATNI: Northwest tribes gathered at 60th annual convention - Members representing 40 tribes from across the Northwest region met at the Coeur d' Alene Casino for the 60th Annual Affiliated Tribes of the Northwest Indians Fall Convention. It's a convention that's still steeped in tradition 60 years after the ATNI was established. In 1953, leaders from the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Spokane Tribe, Colville Tribe, Yakama Nation and Tulalip Tribe, held the first meeting of the ATNI to discuss the issues of income taxes and how to protect their tribal governments from being disbanded by the U.S. government through the Termination Act.

ATNI: Tribes act to oppose coal exports - On May 16, the 57 members of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) took historic action during their mid-year meeting at Airway Heights, Washington, unanimously adopting a resolution entitled Opposing the Proposals for the Transportation and Export of Fossil Fuels in the Pacific Northwest. Comment: Coal is about to go the way of whale oil, along with oil, nuclear and even solar, wind and hydro. Google "Andrea Rossi" and LENR. Seriously.

ATNI: Tribes request coal export study - The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians are calling for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete a comprehensive environmental impact statement on the cumulative effects of exporting coal from the Pacific Northwest. The resolution was prompted by a proposed export facility at the Port of Morrow. It also calls on the White House Council on Environmental Quality to prepare an environmental assessment on that specific proposal. Although the Coquille Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians are members of the Affiliated Tribes, they haven't taken a position on coal export. Note: Colombia is building a railroad to transport coal from the Caribbean to the Pacific for export to China, bypassing the Panama Canal. China will get their coal. But when cold fusion supplants coal, along with nuclear, hydro and every other form of commercial energy production, the coal trains will stop.