On May 30, the Protect Greater Chaco Coalition continued its call for meaningful and effective protections in Greater Chaco, releasing a fact sheet detailing underlying issues not addressed in recent legislation. The Coalition supports Navajo Chapters and frontline communities dealing with the onslaught of industrialized fracking.
Last week, New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich held a press conference introducing legislation aimed at protecting Greater Chaco. The legislation proposes to withdraw federal minerals within a 10-mile buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park from future oil and gas leasing, but does nothing to address impacts from existing development.
Impacts from existing development include health and cultural impacts, poor air quality, protections for outlier sacred sites and landscape-level cultural management, unsafe road conditions, public safety, infringement on human and civil rights, tribal sovereignty, oil and gas royalty issues, and more.
Read the press release.
