By Elizabeth Miller Take a look at most oil and gas infrastructure — wellheads, pipes and cylindrical storage tanks — dotting New Mexico oil and gas fields, and little seems to be happening. But use the right equipment and you can see gases, including methane, wafting into the air. Heading skyward with methane, the main component [...]
By Jon Goldstein and Colin Leyden This May, ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas company, announcedtargets to limit methane waste from its global operations. We’ve also seen commitments to cut methane from a range of leading companies like BP and others. But as more companies step forward with methane targets, it begs the question: Is voluntary action from companies [...]
The decision tips the ailing Navajo Generating Station closer to its planned closure. by Jessica Kutz In one of the latest bids to save the Navajo Generating Station, the West’s largest coal-burning power plant, the Department of Interior has stepped in to try and stave off its closure. Last week, Timothy Petty, the Interior Department’s [...]
Throughout the West, special places – enchantingly beautiful, priceless, and awe-inspiring – bring communities together. Imagine your favorite haven now: an ancient forest in the Northwest, a sweeping ridgeline vista in the Intermountain West, or a breathtaking desert canyon in the Southwest. Many of these lands are public lands owned by all of us, and [...]
By Laura Paskus On Wednesday, Gov. Susana Martinez and her energy secretary testified in Washington, D.C. that New Mexico is losing revenue from oil and gas drilling due to bureaucratic backlogs. Martinez and Ken McQueen, a former energy executive who now heads the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, testified before a House committee [...]
Holtec International is working with Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance, LLC (ELEA) on a proposal to build a High Level Radioactive Waste (HLRW) dump about halfway between Carlsbad & Hobbs, and less than 15 miles north of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), to store the most highly radioactive waste ever created. New facility to store up [...]
A 2015 spill that turned the waterway orange is a reminder of mining’s disastrous legacy. Jonathan Thompson Image credit: Brent Lewis/The Denver Post via Getty Images “The farmers along the Animas River are sitting down and permitting the waters of that river to be so tainted and polluted as that soon it will merit the [...]
By Laura Paskus At a public meeting in Albuquerque last week, most people opposed plans for a nuclear waste storage facility. Over the past two decades, southeastern New Mexico has embraced an industry many other communities throughout the country have rejected. Following more than 20 years of proposals, studies and battles, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant [...]
by Eric C. Evarts Footage from June 2016 LAPD announcement of lease for 100 BMW i3 electric cars [CBS Channel 2, LA] Electric car sales are poised to increase tenfold by 2025 and reach 55 percent of car sales worldwide by 2040, according to the latest report on electric cars from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. While electric cars' [...]
BY SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A swath of northwestern New Mexico's oil and gas country would be off limits to drilling under proposed federal legislation that seeks to make permanent a buffer zone that has kept development away from Chaco Culture National Historical Park and other sites held sacred by Native American tribes. The [...]