{"id":103105,"date":"2017-10-21T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T00:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/national-tribal-group-calls-for-drilling-moratorium-around-chaco\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T00:57:04","slug":"national-tribal-group-calls-for-drilling-moratorium-around-chaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/national-tribal-group-calls-for-drilling-moratorium-around-chaco\/","title":{"rendered":"National tribal group calls for drilling moratorium around Chaco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":91855,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20171021\/NEWS01\/171029976\/AR\/0\/AR-171029976.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Pueblo Bonito, the largest ruin at Chaco Culture National Historic Park, as seen from the bluff above. The National Congress of American Indians is calling for a moratorium on drilling in the region surrounding Chaco.\",\"article_id\":70896,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"Jim Mimiaga\/Cortez Journal\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":true,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2017-10-21T18:57:04.000-06:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2017-10-21T18:57:04.000-06:00\",\"width\":4053,\"height\":2227,\"order\":null,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 The National Congress of American Indians has waded into the debate over oil and gas development in northwestern New Mexico, calling for a moratorium on drilling in the region surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.<\/p>\n<p>The group voted Friday to approve a resolution that focuses on stopping drilling in parts of the San Juan Basin.<\/p>\n<p>Friday marked the deadline for public comments on a proposed 2018 lease sale by the Bureau of Land Management that includes parcels in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the All Pueblo Council of Governors raised their own concerns along with Democratic members of the state\u2019s congressional delegation, archaeologists, professors and other researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The critics say increased development has the potential to destroy parts of the landscape that could provide a better understanding of the ancient civilization that once inhabited the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to halt energy development in parts of San Juan Basin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[2367,221],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-103105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-chaco-culture-national-historical-park","tag-gas-and-oil"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103105"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=103105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}