by Hanna Grover METHANE IS A POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS AND AN INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION HAS A PLAN TO REDUCE ITS SHARE OF EMISSIONS. NOT EVERYONE AGREES WITH ITS PROPOSALS. FARMINGTON — The New Mexico Oil & Gas Association has released a methane mitigation roadmap that proposes ways to monitor and reduce emissions. The 22-page report identifies four areas [...]
Adrian C Hedden The State of New Mexico is starting to crack down on natural gas waste from the oil and gas industry, as it begins engaging with oil companies and local agencies on stricter regulations to prevent methane emissions. The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) [...]
The agency failed to consider water use. Jonathan Thompson When locals in northwestern New Mexico’s Chaco region give directions to places on the maze of roads out in the high desert here, they often refer to “the cornfield,” as in: “Turn left at the cornfield.” While that wouldn’t be much help in a corn-covered place [...]
In Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming, oil and gas producers spilled an average of 2,694 gallons of crude oil per day Hannah RiderFollow May 30 Drilling in Eddy County, New Mexico, where the Permian Basin is booming | Blake Thornberry, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 As the Trump administration continues to spur oil and gas production, lands, waters, and communities [...]
By Susan Montoya Bryan | Associated Press U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, left, listens while Chaco Culture National Historical Park Chief of Interpretation Nathan Hatfield during a Tuesday tour of Pueblo Bonito in San Juan County. Hannah Grover/The Daily Times via AP ALBUQUERQUE — U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil [...]
By April Reese, Searchlight New Mexico COUNSELOR — About halfway through a late-April Sunday service at the Living Spring Baptist Church, the sermon took an unusual turn. Pastor Tom Guerito’s exhortations to trust in God and resist sin, delivered mostly in Diné, gave way to a more earthly concern: oil and gas. “People say, ‘I smell [...]
In our latest podcast, TEDX asks: “How does fracking wastewater threaten our health and the environment?” Millions of barrels of produced water, laden with toxic chemicals, come to the surface during oil and gas production. Chemical additives from fracking or other processes can be detected for up to a year after fracking occurs, while chemicals [...]
Carlsbad residents are experiencing health impacts, but the science behind their woes lags behind the pace of drilling. Tay Wiles When Dee George was about 7 years old, his family moved to the outskirts of Carlsbad, New Mexico, where they bought an acre of land, set up a mobile home and planted mulberry trees. They [...]
From Congresswoman Deb Haaland's Office: Washington D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) joined Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and lead Democrats in introducing the Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2019, presenting a Democratic approach to reducing toxic and climate-warming emissions from oil and gas operations by restoring methane waste rules President Trump canceled and moved to weaken in [...]
By OFFICE OF THE NEW MEXICO LAND COMMISSIONER • APR 29, 2019 SANTA FE, NM – Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard has signed Land Office Executive Order 2019-002, (view here) placing a moratorium on new oil and gas development on state trust land in a buffer zone around Chaco Canyon. The Executive Order, signed at the Navajo Nation Counselor [...]