Have you seen these trucks around in eastern Navajo Reservation? It looks like an invasion on the movie Red Dawn or something. Well these trucks, as I heard, are a part of the fracking operation in eastern Navajo. The trucks are hauling away all the dirt drilled up from the fracking wells in the Navajo reservation. ("Fracking Boom Ransacks the Four Corners"). These companies are buying the lands from the Navajos.
Photo: Courtesy of Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker
The new proposed Navajo energy policy needs to discourage the fracking invasion in eastern Navajo. The eastern Council Delegates need to be a part of the planning for the new energy policy. I understand that Council Delegate Daniel Tso has been trying to fight the fracking operations in the Chaco Region. The environmental groups, Dine CARE and others, have taken the fight to court, but I heard that the Farmington BLM Office who issues permits to frack has been ignoring court orders and going rouge. I think they are relying on the current administration's pro-energy stance, but that should not be a reason to ignore court orders. They need to follow the law. The framers of the 2019 Navajo Energy Policy need to take this invasion and lawlessness into consideration.
