{"id":105242,"date":"2016-05-09T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/blm-undecided-on-chaco-canyon-oil-and-gas-lease-sale\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T22:38:30","slug":"blm-undecided-on-chaco-canyon-oil-and-gas-lease-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/blm-undecided-on-chaco-canyon-oil-and-gas-lease-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM undecided on Chaco Canyon oil and gas lease sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fff70999-c70d-4abf-ae65-d76be66d1e48&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fff70999-c70d-4abf-ae65-d76be66d1e48&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fff70999-c70d-4abf-ae65-d76be66d1e48&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fff70999-c70d-4abf-ae65-d76be66d1e48&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1375\" alt=\"Service roads crisscross the high desert near the Chaco Culture National Historical Park where oil and gas companies are drilling. A May 5 deadline to determine whether to postpone an oil and gas lease sale on sacred land near Chaco Canyon passed without a decision.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Service roads crisscross the high desert near the Chaco Culture National Historical Park where oil and gas companies are drilling. A May 5 deadline to determine whether to postpone an oil and gas lease sale on sacred land near Chaco Canyon passed without a decision.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Joby Warrick\/Washington Post file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A May 5 deadline to determine whether to postpone an oil and gas lease sale on sacred land near Chaco Canyon passed without a decision, and agency officials said there\u2019s some leeway on a final verdict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay 5 was more of our target date,\u201d said Lisa Morrison, a deputy chief of communications for the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s New Mexico office. \u201cThere\u2019s no law that tells us we need to decide by that date, so we can adjust if we need to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three potential lease sales, totaling 2,122-acres in New Mexico, slated for October has riled conservation groups, which claim oil and gas operations would destroy a \u201ctreasured landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, a BLM project manager accidentally left a voicemail announcing a deferral of the sale to a later date, forcing the agency to backtrack once word hit the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, and I totally understand if they have a voicemail saying it\u2019s a done deal, but we need to accept that it was a mistake,\u201d said spokeswoman Donna Hummel at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison said a decision could be made at any time, which would be posted to the BLM\u2019s website and sent out in a news release.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5 target<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[2367,13,221],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-105242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-chaco-culture-national-historical-park","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-gas-and-oil"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105242","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=105242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105242"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=105242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}