Navajo Group: Fracking Income ‘Sole Lifeline’; Federal Permits Should Be Validated

(December 3, 2020, 8:54 AM EST) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group referred to as the Navajo Allottees, who are intervenors in a hydraulic fracturing permit lawsuit brought by environmental groups and a tribal entity against federal agencies and officials, on Nov. 9 filed a brief in New Mexico federal court stating that “income from oil and gas activity, including the permits challenged by Plaintiffs, is the sole lifeline for many Navajo Allottees” and, therefore, they agree with the position taken by the government (Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, et al. v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 19-703, D. N.M.)....