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    • PAST PRESS RELEASES

       

      September 4, 2013​
      Coalition of Archaeological and Environmental Groups: Save Chaco Canyon from Drilling and Fracking

       

      January 6, 2015​
      BLM Defers Fracking Near New Mexico's Sacred Chaco Canyon

       

      May 11, 2015​
      Groups Seek to Stop Unstudied Chaco Fracking

       

      June 1, 2015​
      Navajo and Environmental Groups Take the Greater Chaco Fracking Fight to BLM's Farmington Office

       

      August 17, 2015
      Judge Fails to Halt Fracking in Greater Chaco

       

      August 18, 2015​
      More than 165,000 Deliver A Message to New Mexico Politicians: Stop Fracking in the Greater Chaco

       

      June 6, 2016​
      Obama Administration Pulls Plans for Fracking near Chaco Canyon

       

      July 13, 2016​
      Community Reacts to San Juan Basin Oil Tank Explosion

       

      September 2, 2016​
      Thousands Speak out for Climate and Chaco Canyon, Call for Canceling New Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale

       

      October 19, 2016

      Health, Education, and Human Services Committee receives report regarding concerns with hydraulic fracturing in the Eastern Navajo Agency

       

      October 11, 2016

      Groups who have voiced support against fracking in Greater Chaco

      We sent this letter October 11 as our last in a series of requests to engage Udall's leadership in calling for an immediate moratorium to fracking in the Greater Chaco region until the Bureau of Land Management has completed it’s Resource Management Plan amendment process to include a comprehensive health and social impact assessment and a plan for climate protection and just transitions to renewable energy development in the area.

       

      March 11, 2015

      We sent a letter, signed by over 30 organizations calling for an end to fracking in the region, and copied that letter in an ad in the Santa Fe New Mexican.

       

      June 1, 2015

      We sent a letter to BLM Farmington Director Victoria Barr, reasserting the needs above;

       

      August 18, 2015

      We delivered over 165,000 petition signatures to Udall's district offices calling for an end to fracking in the Greater Chaco area.

       

      April 2016

      BLM lease sale, over two hundred New Mexicans protested the oil and gas auction and the mismanagement of the federal oil and gas leasing program. Then, in efforts to avoid future protests, the BLM moved its July sale to Roswell, and is making moving these auctions online nationally.

       

      September 2, 2016

      We sent comments from thousands of New Mexicans calling on BLM to rein in unchecked fracking in the area and abandon its plans to auction off nearly 1,000 acres of public lands at the January 18 oil and gas lease sale.

       

      December 18, 2017

      Indigenous, Religious, and Local New Mexican Leaders Call on Senators Udall and Heinrich to Advance Fossil Fuel Transition for Region

       

      March, 2018

      Greater Chaco Employs Guerilla “Warning” Signs to Combat Fracking

       

      March 2, 2018

      Greater Chaco Spared from Fracking Auction

      Community Responds to Cancellation of Chaco Canyon Oil and Gas Lease Sale

       

      March 6, 2018

      #ItsNotOver - Chaco Lease Sale Deferred, Advocates Press for Permanent Protections

       

      March 7, 2018

      #ItsNotOver - Greater Chaco Advocates Descend on BLM

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