The Biden administration’s approval of oil leases in a corner of New Mexico that has become a battleground over increased development and preservation of Native American sites has prompted a legal challenge.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
At issue are leases that span more than 70 square miles in northwestern New Mexico. The groups say the federal government agreed in April to reconsider the Trump-era leases given their proximity to homes and an area held sacred by Navajos. The Bureau of Land Management said Thursday that the parcels in question are outside an informal 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco park that the agency has observed for years., that buffer would be in effect for the next 20 years, prohibiting oil and gas development on federal land within that area.
Environmentalists have argue that the Bureau of Land Management has failed to consider the cumulative impacts of drilling in the area. Archaeologists and leaders of New Mexico pueblos with ancestral ties to the Chaco area also have concerns about damaging culturally significant sites that are outside the park's boundaries and the buffer zone.
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