"The New Mexico state government is more concerned about saving money or making money through oil and gas companies, uranium mining or nuclear weapons production in Northern New Mexico, than in taking care of the people who live here. By turning our sacred water and land into commodities for profit regardless of the cost to [...]
"The next big fight for the U.S. climate movement is here and we need your help to scale it up, fast. The people-powered movement to Keep it in the Ground — to end the leasing of America's public lands to dirty energy companies for fossil fuel extraction — is already making major waves throughout the halls of [...]
I know, I know. I keep hitting NMID readers with studies lately. There is so much work being done out there in the wide world—as people study everything from emissions to warming trends—that it would be a shame for New Mexicans to miss out on all this important information. Especially since many recent papers relate [...]
"LaDuke told Pasatiempo about a meeting she’d had the previous day with Enbridge representatives. “I asked them, ‘Why can’t you be a bridge to the next economy rather than trying to wring every cent from the old one and destroy the planet in the process? You need to just smarten up.’” She paused for a moment. [...]
“The Kochs have invested heavily in a pugnacious defense of fossil fuel consumption,” said one conservative energy analyst. “They’ve done this in the electricity sector, and as the debate shifts to transportation they’re behaving true to form.” To read full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicles_us_56c4d63ce4b0b40245c8cbf6
Last year, New Mexico In Depth reported about how decreasing snowfall and rainfall will put river systems and associated water supplies at risk in the coming century. Now, a new study shows how climate change will affect the West’s groundwater supplies....... According to the study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Hydrology, water withdrawals will [...]
A bipartisan group of governors from 17 states has pledged to accelerate their efforts to create a green economy in the US by boosting renewables, building better electricity grids and cutting emissions from transport. An accord signed by the governors states that the US must “embrace a bold vision of the nation’s energy future” by [...]
February 16, 2016 Salt Lake City, UT Today, over one hundred people erupted into song and disrupted the Utah Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) oil and gas lease sale in Salt Lake City, Utah. The auction was then closed to the public as the entire audience was escorted outside. Activist and author, Terry Tempest Williams, [...]
Article on BLM Hearing in Farmington yesterday, regarding BLM Proposed New Rule for Methane Emissions: http://www.durangoherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20160216/NEWS01/160219661&template=mobileart
Safeguards that protect communities from disasters like the Aliso Canyon methane leak in California were gravely lacking in the installation and maintenance of this reservoir (“California AG sues utility for massive natural gas leak,” Feb. 2). With the largest methane “hot spot” sitting above the San Juan Basin and so much fracking going on in [...]