Update:
ALONG NAVAJO NATION BORDER -- Canadian company leased land along Navajo Nation border, between Sanders and Holbrook, south of Wide Ruins, for dangerous helium fracking, endangering water and all forms of life. "Desert Mountain Energy Corp. of Vancouver purchased two oil and gas leases auctioned by the Bureau of Land Management late last week, paying $2 an acre." More:
Water, Petrified Forest, Endangered Species now Threatened
Monte Cunningham, Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center, (928) 536-4266, monty@stress-away.com
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2414, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.
Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club, (602) 999-5790, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
Tony Tangalos, resident of Taylor, Arizona, (602) 321-4100, tangalos@cox.net
Eleanor Bravo, Food & Water Watch, (505) 730-8474, ebravo@fwwatch.org
Rebecca Fischer, WildEarth Guardians, (406) 698-1489, rfischer@wildearthguardians.
Kelly Fuller, Western Watersheds Project, (928) 322-8449, kfuller@westernwatersheds.org
Trump Administration to Lease 4,200 Acres in Northern Arizona for Fracking
Press statement Sept. 6, 2018
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2414, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.
Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club, (602) 999-5790, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
Tony Tangalos, resident of Taylor, Arizona, (602) 321-4100, tangalos@cox.net
Eleanor Bravo, Food & Water Watch, (505) 730-8474, ebravo@fwwatch.org
Rebecca Fischer, WildEarth Guardians, (406) 698-1489, rfischer@wildearthguardians.
Kelly Fuller, Western Watersheds Project, (928) 322-8449, kfuller@westernwatersheds.org
Trump Administration to Lease 4,200 Acres in Northern Arizona for Fracking
Press statement Sept. 6, 2018
PHOENIX— The Bureau of Land Management today plans to auction off 4,200 acres of public land for oil and gas leases in northern Arizona near Petrified Forest National Park and two rivers. Parcels that do not receive bids today will be available for noncompetitive leasing for two years.
The sale will put the land at risk of chemical spills and water contamination that could harm the Little Colorado River and Silver Creek, threatening endangered species and water users.
The sale will put the land at risk of chemical spills and water contamination that could harm the Little Colorado River and Silver Creek, threatening endangered species and water users.