Posted on 09/23/2022 3:31:16 PM PDT by CedarDave
The Biden administration is expected to soon finalize a rule banning oil and gas leasing near a Native American historical site despite heavy opposition from local Indigenous leaders, who say the administration's rule would prevent them from collecting royalties on their land.
The rule, which the Department of Interior (DOI) announced in November 2021, would implement a 20-year moratorium on federal oil and gas leasing within a 10-mile radius of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park located in northwest New Mexico. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the rule, which would amount to a withdrawal of 336,000 acres of public lands from mineral leasing, would protect the environment and "rich cultural legacy" of the region.
"We're not destroying anything — we are Native Americans ourselves. Nobody is destroying the park," Delora Hesuse, a Navajo Nation citizen who owns allotted land in the Greater Chaco region, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "The oil companies sure aren't destroying the park. And they have new technology."
"It just seems like they are listening more to the environmentalist people," she continued.
The Navajo Nation Council also condemned the proposal, saying it would instead support a five-mile radius, a compromise backed by industry. Council Delegate Mark Freeland said families from the allotted land areas were "ignored" by the DOI.
In addition, the board of county commissioners of San Juan County, New Mexico, passed a resolution in April stating that it "strongly opposes" the Biden administration proposal. The resolution noted the rule would make it impossible for owners of individual Indian allotments to drill for and extract minerals since pipelines must cross federal land below the surface.
Hesuse noted that the Navajo community is extremely impoverished and that oil and gas revenues are critical for sustaining many individuals.
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Screwing the pooch that feeds you is never a wise move. Tribes are heavy Democrat donors and supporters.
Tribes
were
heavy Democrat donors supporters.
/-).
This admin is like a self immolation tesla.
Who’s gonna stop the drilling? Oil fields might be where the first shots are fired
NOT saying I want this or threaten this but wouldn’t it be funny if diaper Joe met his untimely end by an arrow from a Native American? One for the history books.
After his many loudmouth, bullying speeches and name calling they could call it Bluster’s Last Stand. Native American Critic Says “He Got The Point.”
Those poor naive primitives don’t know how to use their own lands. Good thing the Democrats know better and can rescue them from their misguided ways.
(/s for those who need it)
If I recall correctly, the Navajos stabbed Trump in the back No?
Who can say for sure. NM was flooded with Trump signs all over the place. Nary a Biden sign to be seen. And yet, here we are.
Lieawatha Warren is uncharacteristically quiet.
No love for her red brothers and sisters when it counts?
Time to go on the warpath!
I think the Navajo went Biden at about 58% to 42%.
***Hesuse noted that the Navajo community is extremely impoverished and that oil and gas revenues are critical for sustaining many individuals.***
Forty eight years ago the American Indian Movement got future power plants on the Navajo Reservation shut down. They caused trouble for the gas industry in that area, and got the Fairchild Plant abandoned at Shiprock.
I was living there at the time and they were raising hell all over that area.
Please note that one year before that some white teens at Farmington had murdered some Navajos, and in what many consider a travesty of justice they were allowed to be tried as juveniles instead of adults. This was a travesty itself as they should have been tried as adults and was the beginning of the Indian Problems of the mid 1970s in that area.
In much of that area the ownership of the land is in a checkerboard pattern. Indian Land, Public Land checkerboard style.
“Screwing the pooch that feeds you is never a wise move. Tribes are heavy Democrat donors and supporters.”
Wish you were right —
🔹️ As long as the fascist DNC/Uniparty has the AFL-CIO only controlling their big city Central Tabulation Centers, and control of the “dial-a-fraction” algorithms, and total control of the DOJ/FBI and judges, they know there is literally nothing to worry about.
The issue is that there is a group of tribal leaders that want the site protected from mining and drilling so tourist will come for the beauty and protect the land. There was a mention in a paper years ago. I remember commenting about this on FR.
Now you have a group who wants to continue to drill and get money from the royalties.
Government is picking winners again. Slow horses and fast women are the usual suspects.
Putin says “Thank You”.
Read later.
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