Pictorial view of the proposed the HI-STORE CIS Facility under NRC review Holtec International has launched the design and licensing of an autonomous consolidated interim storage facility on ELEA, LLC’s property in southeastern New Mexico. The Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance, LLC [ELEA] is a long-standing consortium of the Cities of Carlsbad & Hobbs and the Counties of Eddy & Lea, [...]
This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association. NMOGA lobbies on behalf of oil and gas interests, seeking less regulation and oversight for their industry and greater access to political power in the state. Last year, the Executive Director of NMOGA, Ryan Flynn, spoke at their annual meeting [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department is replacing an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands. A rule being published in the Federal Register this week will replace the 2016 rule with requirements similar to those in force before the Obama administration changed the regulation. Interior [...]
https://www.facebook.com/CAVUorg/videos/1754518644592347/ Do you know how much taxpayer-owned natural gas is being wasted in New Mexico? I'll tell you the answer: $100,000,000 a year. -Senator Tom Udall How would YOU like to see that money reinvested here at home?
TWO Chaco Landscape protection bills have been introduced to the New Mexico Legislature - SM 43 sponsored by Sen. George Muñoz (D-Gallup) and HM 85 sponsored by Rep. Derrick Lente (D-Sandia). While these are mostly good measures, BOTH bills place "buffer zones" around Chaco National Park, allowing for increased drilling and leasing in Navajo communities [...]
This is the third in a series of articles highlighting the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association. NMOGA lobbies on behalf of oil and gas interests, seeking less regulation and oversight for their industry and greater access to political power in the state. Last year, the Executive Director of NMOGA, Ryan Flynn, spoke at their annual meeting [...]
It was a BIG week for the essential campaign to move off fossil fuels and on to 100% renewable energy by 2035 02.2.18 With a climate-denying President moving to increase oil and gas extraction, it is more important than ever for state and local governments to act. That’s what happened this week, as state bills [...]
By Laura Paskus and Andy Lyman Doc Searls The San Juan Generating Station, flanked by its surface coal mines on the desert north of the San Juan River west of Farmington, New Mexico. Flickr cc A bill scheduled to come before the Senate Conservation Committee on Saturday has some environmental groups and the state’s largest electric utility facing off over [...]
ALBUQUERQUE — A federal entity that markets and transmits electricity across the West is expressing interest in a proposed transmission line that would link Arizona and New Mexico and serve as a path to get renewable energy to large markets in the region. Developers of the SunZia transmission project say they and the Western Area [...]
By Dan Grossman January 17th should have been a positive milestone for Westerners and all Americans as limits on the unnecessary waste of American taxpayer-owned natural gas were slated to go into effect. Instead, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who has repeatedly shown that the least responsible companies in the oil and gas industry have [...]