Thread by @TuanaTang

Indian Country fights against more fracking🤨Families living in rural areas south-west of Counselor, New Mexico, were telling him they saw sickly bull snakes and near-death rattlers above ground during the snowy, winter months of the south

Sage, the administrator at the Counselor Chapter House, a Navajo local government center, was incredulous.

“In February? There’s no snakes in February,” he said.

Sage had a theory for what was happening: underground vibrations from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, forced the snakes from their dens and on to the surface.#ClimateAction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

Over the years, he’s noticed other changes. Vegetation died off and the climate became drier. People living in homes with dirt floors told him they had felt vibrations from the ground late at night, from 2 to 4am.#ClimateAction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

Archaeologists estimate there are Native artifacts throughout much of the 7,500-sq-mile San Juan Basin, some of them probably buried underground and at risk from drilling. Julia Bernal said the sites are more than historic artifacts.#ClimateAction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature