A proposal from the oil and gas industry to set up a 75-person 鈥渕an camp鈥� in the Greater Chaco area has advocates and environmentalists up in arms about the impacts it could have on the land and on rates of sexual violence in the region.
A 鈥榤an camp鈥� is temporary housing meant to host a large number of workers in the resource extraction industry. Usually, they are a collection of mobile homes or tents 鈥� but sometimes, companies put up proper houses.
The proposal, submitted to the Bureau of Land Management by oil and gas production company , would help expand drilling operations.
Cheyenne Antonio is with the . She said these camps put Indigenous communities at increased risk of sexual violence and trafficking.
"We continue to see missing and murdered 顿颈苍茅 women without no explanation of what happened to them," said Antonio. "Were they dating oil and gas workers?鈥�
A study from the has found a correlation between sexual violence and missing person cases near industry projects 鈥� like the now cancelled .
Antonio also expressed disappointment in the Bureau of Land Management and Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland for failing to explore these booms of violence in oil and gas country and for falling short on the area.
To her, data collection is crucial in understanding the scope of the problem.
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