After a century, oil and gas problems persist on Navajo lands
This October marks the 100th anniversary of the first oil leases on the Navajo Nation.
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This October marks the 100th anniversary of the first oil leases on the Navajo Nation.
Indigenous rights organizer Joseph Hernandez pulls weeds away from warning signs at an unmarked tank farm in Horseshoe Canyon on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Photos by Jerry Redfern. By Jerry Redfern / Capital & Main It’s a Saturday morning in late June and Garry Jay, a member of the Navajo Nation, pilots a white crew-cab Chevy pickup on a lumpy dirt road across the grasslands north of his house in Shiprock, New Mexico, heading for the round, wood-framed hogan his grandfather built by hand
The legacy of fossil fuel development endures in leaks, spills and neglect.
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