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Subject: Sign the petition! President Obama and Mark Ames, BLM: Moratorium on Drilling & Leasing in Greater Chaco

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I signed a petition on Action Network telling President Obama and Mark Ames, BLM to Moratorium on Drilling & Leasing in Greater Chaco.

We are demanding President Obama call for an immediate moratorium on all drilling, leasing, and related fracking activities in the Greater Chaco Region until the Bureau of Land Management completes its multi-year long planning process and full protection of human and community health can be guaranteed, as required by federal law.  Just like the Standing Rock Sioux, New Mexico’s Indigenous, Latino and low-income communities are shouldering the majority of negative impacts from oil and gas drilling, infrastructure and transportation.

A thousand years ago, Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico was the ceremonial center of ancestral Pueblo Indians, whose culture encompassed 75,000 square miles of the Southwest. Today, Chaco Canyon lies within the Navajo Nation and is a World Heritage Site - one of the most important cultural sites in the Americas.

Sacred sites to all Indigenous peoples of the Southwest, precious water resources, the area’s clean air, and our climate are all now under a grave and growing threat from fracking. Navajo communities of Greater Chaco are living amid extensive oil and gas development with no regard for public health or safety.           Over the last three years, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has leased thousand of acres of public land and approved more than 365 new fracking proposals, without adequate Tribal consultation.

On July 11, 2016, six fracking wells exploded in a fire that burned for days and forced dozens of families to evacuate, exposing the complete absence of an emergency response plan or necessary safeguards.

And while the Bureau of Land Management acknowledges it never analyzed how this fracking boom will impact public health and the environment, the agency continues to approve fracking activities with no plan in place to protect the region’s air, water and communities.

Can you join me and take action? Click here: http://bit.ly/FrackOffPetition?source=email&

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