Take Action: Greater Chaco Faces New Fracking Threats #FrackOff

WildEarth Guardians just learned the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is planning to auction away tens of thousands of acres of the Greater Chaco region for fracking.

The move threatens Navajo communities, the cultural fabric of this sacred landscape, our climate, clean air, and more.

Their plans come even as we thwarted new fracking in the region last March and even as New Mexico’s U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich have introduced legislation to protect lands within 10 miles of Chaco Canyon.

We need to step it up. Speak out today; join us in demanding a moratorium on new fracking and in demanding justice and accountability. #FrackOffChaco!

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Farmington District Manager, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Victoria Barr
New Mexico State Director, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Aden Seidlitz
Director, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Brian Steed

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I am writing out of concern over the hundreds of new oil and gas leasing Expressions of Interest that have been submitted for lands in the Greater Chaco region within the Bureau of Land Management's Farmington Field Office in New Mexico.

I urge you to reject these Expressions of Interest, decline all future leasing, and focus on developing a plan to protect this region and its people from the harmful impacts of fracking. This plan should include withdrawing all oil and gas from leasing within the Farmington Field Office.

As has been recently learned, the oil and gas industry wants to lease tens of thousands of acres of public lands in the Greater Chaco region, including within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park. It is unconscionable that the Bureau of Land Management would entertain such reckless management of public lands and resources.

The Greater Chaco region, with Chaco Canyon at its core, is an irreplaceable sacred landscape. It sustains Navajo communities and remains important for present-day Pueblo tribes.  The Bureau of Land Management must show some restraint and respect.

It's time to put the brakes on more leasing and heed calls for a moratorium on new fracking, which have been voiced by countless Americans, the Navajo Nation, and the All Pueblo Council of Governors.

The oil and gas industry's demands do not trump the public interest and the interests of indigenous peoples.

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