{"id":1943000,"date":"2023-06-02T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-interior-department-cuts-off-navajo-nation-from-oil-and-gas-development\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T20:11:55","slug":"biden-interior-department-cuts-off-navajo-nation-from-oil-and-gas-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-interior-department-cuts-off-navajo-nation-from-oil-and-gas-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Interior Dept. stops Navajo Nation&#8217;s oil and gas development."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-interior-department-cuts-off-navajo-nation-from-oil-and-gas-development%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Biden Administration Locks Up 30% of Nation&#8217;s Land and Waterways by 2030<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The Department of the Interior, under President Joe Biden, has taken another step towards locking up 30% of the nation&#8217;s land and waterways by 2030. On Friday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a 10-mile radius around the Chaco Cultural National Historical Park now cut off from new oil and gas leases despite local opposition to the new regulations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEfforts to protect the Chaco landscape have been ongoing for decades, as Tribal communities have raised concerns about the impacts that new development would have on areas of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-closes-off-more-land-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-with-new-20-year-moratorium\/\" title=\"Biden closes more land to oil and gas drilling with 20-year ban.\">deep cultural connection<\/a>,\u201d Haaland said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-flash-star-ezra-miller-pleads-not-guilty-to-vermont-felony-burglary-charges-faces-possible-sentence-of-up-to-26-years-behind-bars\/\" title=\"\u201cThe Flash\u201d Star Ezra Miller Pleads Not Guilty to Vermont Felony Burglary Charges, Faces Possible Sentence of up to 26 Years Behind Bars\">agency press release<\/a>. \u201cI value and appreciate the many Tribal leaders, elected officials, and stakeholders who have persisted in their work to conserve this special area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 10-mile buffer around the American Indian historical site offers protections for existing leases but eliminates opportunities for new drilling for the next 20 years. Local Indian tribes, however, welcomed more oil and gas exploration in the area as a primary source of economic development. In May, the Navajo Nation voted to reject the administration\u2019s plans to withdraw 351,000 acres from consideration for oil and gas leases.<\/p>\n<h3>Conflicts of Interest<\/h3>\n<p>The Interior Department\u2019s decision is estimated to cost the tribe more than $194 million over the next two decades, according to the Western Energy Alliance, an industry group for independent oil and gas producers. The Alliance published a press release Friday afternoon denouncing Haaland\u2019s decision and the secretary\u2019s \u201cclear conflicts of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haaland\u2019s daughter, Somah, lobbied for the decision on behalf of the Pueblo Action Alliance (PAA), an Albuquerque-based climate group demanding protections for Chaco Canyon that extend beyond the 10-mile barrier announced Friday. Pueblo tribes oppose oil and gas activity in the region claiming risks to the UNESCO World Heritage site with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-interior-department-cuts-off-navajo-nation-from-oil-and-gas-development\/\" title=\"Biden's Interior Dept. stops Navajo Nation's oil and gas development.\">archaeological ruins dating back<\/a> to the pre-Columbian period thousands of years ago. Secretary Haaland, the first American Indian to lead the Department of the Interior, is a member of the Pueblo Laguna.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Sgamma, the president of the Western Energy Alliance, charged Secretary Haaland with playing to tribal loyalty. \u201cShe completely ignored the democratic resolutions of the sovereign Navajo Nation whose lands surround the park to put the interests of her tribe, based a hundred miles away, and obstructionist groups first,\u201d Sgamma said. \u201cThe decision prevents Navajo property owners from accessing the oil and natural gas resources they own which provide them with their sustenance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Readers of the New York Times would have no clue Secretary Haaland\u2019s daughter worked for the primary group spearheading efforts to choke off lands near Chaco Canyon from oil and gas extraction. The paper\u2019s coverage of Friday\u2019s announcement made no reference to the conflicts of interest surrounding the decision.<\/p>\n<h3>Impact on New Mexico<\/h3>\n<p>Oil and gas in New Mexico is the state\u2019s primary engine for revenue, generating more than $2 billion per year in direct payments from industry operations. New Mexico depends on oil and gas revenue for about a third of the state budget. Larry Behrens, the communications director for the energy non-profit Power the Future, called Friday\u2019s decision from the department the \u201clatest slap in the face\u201d to oil and gas producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the common-sense precautions already in place, this decision has nothing to do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of the Interior, under President Joe Biden, aims to protect 30% of the US land and waterways by 2030. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has declared a 10-mile radius around the Chaco Cultural National Historical Park off-limits for new oil and gas leases, despite opposition from locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1943001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3706,4098,6273,7536,8674,5771,22122,7393,6395],"class_list":["post-1943000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bidens","tag-dept","tag-development","tag-gas","tag-interior","tag-nations","tag-navajo","tag-oil","tag-stops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}