U.S (NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE ACTION FUND): Tell Congress Stop Big Oil's exploitation of consumers and the environment !

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friend, 

 

Big Oil companies are engaging in practices that jack up gas prices, taking advantage of our communities and Mother Earth to generate mega profit. The impact has been devastating, driving the inflation levels higher and higher and leaving our families struggling to make ends meet.

Nowhere is safe from Big Oil greed. Now, despite years of protest and organizing, a judge has ordered the Biden administration to allow drilling on sacred land again.

And just a few days ago, the industry journal Science released a new report showing that Exxon not only knew the environmental impact of the continued production and burning of fossil fuels decades ago, they also predicted how much it would impact global warming today.

They knew and lied about the impact to the public and Congress in order to maximize their profits over the well-being of Mother Earth and our communities.

It is time for Congress to take action and hold these companies accountable for their actions. Penalties for price gouging should be significant, and the money collected should be used to fund a just transition to a renewable energy economy.

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Indian Country has often borne the brunt of aggressive drilling. For example, the Navajo and Puebloan lands of north-western New Mexico had the first oil wells reportedly as early as 1911.

Under Trump, the Mancos-Gallup Amendment targeted the region for some 3,000 new wells mostly for fracking oil and gas with a goal of expanding drilling into some of northern New Mexico’s last available public lands. And dramatically expand the desecration of sacred Native artifacts in the sacred lands of the greater Chaco Canyon.^[1]

Interior Secretary Haaland recently took steps to turn it around, and New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján praised her work for beginning the process of stopping new oil and gas leasing on federal lands near Chaco, but he emphasized the critical need to pass legislation that would permanently protect the sacred land from fossil fuel extraction.^[2]

We know banning new drilling is not enough. How do we repay over 100 years of destruction of our sacred places? We, together, must hold Big Oil accountable and defend our families, Mother Earth, and Native communities from their greed.

Big Oil must be forced to give back to the communities they have harmed and that means new legislation that would penalize Big Oil for price gouging and reinvest that money into an equitable transition to a renewable energy economy now.

Thank you for taking action. Your support is critical in ensuring that Indigenous cultures continue to nourish our descendants, and so we can build a more just and sustainable future for all.

Hawwih (thank you), 

 

Judith Le Blanc (Caddo)
Executive Director.

 

 

 

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[1] ‘Their greed is gonna kill us’: Indian Country fights against more fracking
[2] Interior begins process to end new oil and gas leasing near Chaco for 20 years