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The petition to the Bureau of Land Management reads:
"Don't frack the Little Colorado River basin."
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Back in January, Trump issued a set of policies to fast-track oil and gas fracking on our public lands.1 Now we're seeing the awful results.
The Trump administration plans to auction off 4,200 acres around the Little Colorado River for oil and gas development.2 Thanks to Trump's reckless pro-fossil fuel policies, officials are planning to sell drilling rights to this public land without any public input, tribal consultation or environmental review.
Our public lands are not for fracking and they are not for sale. Earlier this year, activists were successful in forcing the Trump regime to cancel the sale of oil and gas leases on our public lands at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.3 With enough pressure, we can do it again.
Tell the Trump regime: Don't frack the Little Colorado River basin. Click here to sign the petition.
The northern Arizona lands slated for fracking are within three miles of Petrified Forest National Park. Drilling and fracking in the area threatens to deplete and pollute groundwater in the Little Colorado River basin and harm the habitat for threatened species.4
But for Trump, selling off drilling rights is the only priority when it comes to our public lands. Trump policies require agency officials to “ensure quarterly oil and gas lease sales are consistently held.”5 Any time the oil and gas industry proposes public lands to frack, the Bureau of Land Management is required to act quickly to process the auction.6 Public participation is no longer mandatory, and the public has only 10 days to protest a lease once it's finalized.7
But we have the power to stop this. We know because the Trump administration halted a similar sale just months ago at Chaco Canyon. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he paused the sale because “there have been some questions raised.”8 In other words, we raised our voices so loud he could no longer ignore us.
Tell the Trump regime: Don't frack the Little Colorado River basin. Click the link below to sign the petition:
- Brandy Doyle, CREDO Action
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Monday, June 18, 2018
Tell the Trump regime: Don't frack the Little Colorado River
Monday, September 25, 2017
Submit a public comment: Don’t let the Trump administration repeal fracking protections on public lands. DEADLINE TODAY!
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In 2015, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued updated safety measures for fracking operations on public lands.
The measures, entitled “Oil and Gas; Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands,” were crafted to ensure that: Oil wells are properly constructed to protect water supplies.
Chemical wastes from fracking operations are managed in a responsible way.The public is told which fracking chemicals are being used and whether they could threaten water supplies.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration claims that these basic protections are inconvenient for its cronies in the oil and gas industry. Instead, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed a return to standards that are more than 30 years old and don’t account for the threats posed by modern fracking operations. This would allow one of the most lucrative industries of all time to continue to profit by playing fast and loose with our health and water.
You can help defend the fracking rule. The BLM is accepting public comments on the proposed withdrawal of the fracking rule until September 25. Tell Secretary Zinke to leave our commonsense protections in place.
More than a million Americans weighed in as the Obama administration spent nearly five years modernizing its standards. The new protections adopted by the BLM require drillers to disclose which chemicals they use in fracking fluids, to avoid using large waste pits that threaten groundwater and wildlife, and to perform tests on the integrity of the wells before drilling can begin. Industry and its allies have sued to stall the new protections, and Earthjustice has gone to court to defend them.
Now, however, the Trump administration wants to abandon the new protections as a favor to industry. If the BLM follows through on a repeal, it will increase the threat fracking poses to our public lands, drinking water, wildlife and public health and safety.
Over 1.3 million comments from activists like you got the final fracking rule in place. Now we need you to step up again and defend it. Urge the administration to stand by its updated protections and drop the proposed repeal.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration claims that these basic protections are inconvenient for its cronies in the oil and gas industry. Instead, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed a return to standards that are more than 30 years old and don’t account for the threats posed by modern fracking operations. This would allow one of the most lucrative industries of all time to continue to profit by playing fast and loose with our health and water.
You can help defend the fracking rule. The BLM is accepting public comments on the proposed withdrawal of the fracking rule until September 25. Tell Secretary Zinke to leave our commonsense protections in place.
More than a million Americans weighed in as the Obama administration spent nearly five years modernizing its standards. The new protections adopted by the BLM require drillers to disclose which chemicals they use in fracking fluids, to avoid using large waste pits that threaten groundwater and wildlife, and to perform tests on the integrity of the wells before drilling can begin. Industry and its allies have sued to stall the new protections, and Earthjustice has gone to court to defend them.
Now, however, the Trump administration wants to abandon the new protections as a favor to industry. If the BLM follows through on a repeal, it will increase the threat fracking poses to our public lands, drinking water, wildlife and public health and safety.
Over 1.3 million comments from activists like you got the final fracking rule in place. Now we need you to step up again and defend it. Urge the administration to stand by its updated protections and drop the proposed repeal.
- Earth Justice
Your personalized message will be added along with the following letter:
Re: Proposed rescission of Bureau of Land Management Hydraulic Fracturing Rule, 82 Fed. Reg. 34464 (July 25, 2017)
Dear Secretary Zinke,
Please do not rescind the Bureau of Land Management's 2015 rule addressing hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands. The rule is the product of nearly five years of agency work, expert input, public comments and hearings, and it provides much-needed updates to the Bureau's existing regulations, which were last overhauled in the 1980s. The 2015 rule requires companies to store fracturing wastes in tanks rather than pits, and for the first time will require prior review and approval of fracturing operations on public and tribal lands. The rule also modernizes the agency's well construction and testing standards and mandates disclosure of the chemicals that companies use in fracking fluid. All of these are reasonable, cost-effective measures that will better protect our public lands, drinking water, wildlife and public health and safety. They should not be abandoned.
Thank you for your consideration of these comments.
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