Invisible and toxic in New Mexico
In her 30 years working as a health care professional in the Navajo Nation, Adella Begaye witnessed the health impacts of extractive industries on Indigenous communities in the Southwest.
“We know these toxins can impact the respiratory system, your heart and the lungs. All parts of the body,” she said, speaking to the harms of pollution from the uranium, coal, and oil and gas industries.
To understand the orphan well problem in NM, someone’s going to have to count them
The 50-square-mile stretch of public land known as Glade Run is described on the Bureau of Land Management’s website as a “great spot for the weekend warrior.”
Glade Run is punctured by 600 oil and gas wells, connected by hundreds of access roads and an arterial network of buried gathering lines that leave unvegetated, eroded scars on the land.