I heard from Navajo residents in New Mexico about their health concerns re: air toxics from fracking.
While much is made of the Chaco Canyon buffer, families in rural communities like Counselor are frequently exposed to benzene and hydrogen sulfide.
https://t.co/KCFKIYIcQO
Solar developer Avangrid Renewables pauses permitting operations on Badger Mountain in part to reevaluate tribal input.
This comes on the heels of an HCN/ProPublica investigation of solar development threatening tribal cultural resources.
https://t.co/oVQ5ehGBTu
I feel like people hear Native Journalist and they expect me to show up with a big, shiny ponytail and skin that is, as @dallasgoldtooth put it, that Dances With Wolves brown, and I always let them down.
Group has arrived at the Cameron Chapter house. During the walk, some motorists honked horns and some residents captured photos from their road turnoffs. Navajo blessing songs were sung by one of the walkers.
Kinda feels like we have hit the oversaturation point where people tune out the media. Not saying at all that they should but they always do. Shouldn’t change the way journalists do their job. But we are both weak and perceived as all powerful at same time.
💥 NEW STUDY in Geoforum: Fracking and pipelines bring economic damage, not prosperity as claimed, to Appalachia.
An analysis of central Appalachian landowners' lived experience and situated knowledge of extractivism https://t.co/GenIkDlnOC