Environmental

Bureau of Land Management Defers Fracking Near New Mexico’s Sacred Chaco Canyon

Rampant drilling in the San Juan Basin continues to threaten public health, cultural resources, climate, and clean air and water.

Santa Fe, NM –(ENEWSPF)—January 6, 2015. A coalition of local and regional watchdog groups supports the Bureau of Land Management’s recent decision to defer leasing five Navajo allotment parcels (2,802.56 acres) for fracking near Chaco Canyon, a UNESCO World Heritage site. BLM’s decision, announced on December 30, 2014, came after the groups filed a protest

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