• Frack Off Greater Chaco is a collaborative effort between Indigenous community leaders, Native groups, nonprofits, and public lands and water protectors across the southwest and the country working to stop fracking in Greater Chaco.

      The Greater Chaco Region is a checkerboarded area of Tribal, state, federal, and allotment land. The Bureau of Land Management has approved more than 400 new fracking wells without adequate Tribal consultation or protections for community health, water and climate impacts. Fracking development threatens ancient Chaco culture and sacred sites and also Navajo people and living communities in the area who have been dealing with the impacts of resource extraction for decades.

       

      Video: San Juan Citizens Alliance

    • SAVING CHACO CANYON

      Podcast from Paradigms

      Chaco Canyon and the Greater Chaco Area (25 million square miles) are among the world’s most treasured sacred and archaeological sites, but the region is threatened by fossil fuel extraction. In this 2-part Paradigms we will learn from Native people involved in resisting the expansion of drilling and fracking in the Greater Chaco Area.

       

      In Part 1 we hear from Emily Bowie of the San Juan Citizens Alliance, Daniel Tso, and Beata Tsosie-Pena who works for Environmental Justice.

       

      Part 2, we will hear from a New Mexico State Legislator Derrick Lente, Executive Director of Salmon Ruins Museum Larry Baker, Eric Blinman Director of the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies, and Preservation Archaeologist Paul Reed.

    • NEWS

      Groups Applaud Strengthened Bill to Protect Greater Chaco Landscape
      May 14, 2019 · Oil and Gas,Fracking,Legislation
      Groups Applaud Strengthened Bill to Protect Greater Chaco Landscape Federal Bill Underscores...
      Protect Communities, Protect the Climate: No New Leases
      March 28, 2019 · BLM,Fracking,Greater Chaco,Leases,Oil and Gas
      Protect Communities, Protect the Climate: No New Leases New Mexicans Strike and Sit-In at BLM...
      Celebrating Public Lands, Federal, State, Tribal Leaders and Allies Call for Protection From Fracking
      February 20, 2019 · BLM,Fracking,Oil and Gas,Protest,Greater Chaco · 1
      For Immediate Release Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Photos HERE (more will be added) Facebook...
      Urgent Action On All Things Fracking
      February 18, 2019 · BLM,Fracking,Oil and Gas,Water,Greater Chaco
      Here we are, at the precipice of hard realities. To say that the Oil & Gas Industry is entrenched...
      Send a Letter Stop the Oil and Gas Lease Sale #FrackOffGreaterChaco #NoNewLeases
      February 13, 2019 · BLM,Oil and Gas,Greater Chaco,Fracking,Methane
      Send a Letter Stop the Oil and Gas Lease Sale #FrackOffGreaterChaco #NoNewLeases Tell the BLM...
      Udall, Heinrich Announce Over $35 Million to Improve Rural Water Infrastructure in New Mexico
      December 13, 2018 · Water,Udall,Navajo,Funding
      Major USDA funding will help ensure clean water for Navajo Nation, Doña Ana County, San Miguel...
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    • CONNECT

    • "The oil and gas development has pretty much destroyed our way of life. Our livestock are suffering too. I have been a livestock owner for many years. I made my living by raising sheep and cattle. Now, I am being told by BLM I can only have so many sheep and cattle. My grazing area is getting less and less. But BLM is leasing more and more of the lands to oil and gas development. Soon, there will be nothing left. I believe this is going to happen. My biggest concern is our water, sooner or later it will be contaminated and we will not be able to use our water. How can we get these companies out?"

      - Diné Elder, Woody Keetsy, Sr.

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