In this latest report, NASA found more than 250 sources of methane pollution, a significant portion of which originates from the gas and oil industry including natural gas “facilities, storage tanks, pipeline leaks, and well pads.” However, just 10 percent of these sources contribute more than 50 percent of all the emissions in the basin [...]
Laura Paskus/NMPR On the eastern edge of the Navajo Nation, some communities oppose increased energy development. The Dakota Access Pipeline may be 1,000 miles away from the southwest, but issues raised at Standing Rock—related to energy development and Indian lands and rights—resonate here in New Mexico.“In the case of Standing Rock, I think it sent [...]
By WILLIAM W. BUZBEE Donald J. Trump has named Scott Pruitt, a leading opponent of President Obama’s signature environmental initiatives, as his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general, is closely linked to fossil fuel industries and is a climate change skeptic. He was most likely chosen to reverse these [...]
The main message of Fine’s presentation was that the U.S. would, very quickly, move away from global energy policies based on combating climate change and toward becoming economically nationalistic. (Photo: Jon Austria/The Daily Times) FARMINGTON — The Trump administration will create a "new world order" for American energy producers, energy expert Daniel Fine told a [...]
Hunt Power, a Dalla-based company owned by a family that deals in oil and gas production, is seeking to build a $60 to $80 million 345-kilowatt transmission line across northern Santa Fe County and southern Rio Arriba County. The 33-mile project, the last uncompleted section of a loop that runs from the Four Corners area [...]
WINDOW ROCK, AZ —Navajo community members, joined by other Indigenous leaders from Northern Pueblos and allies across the Four Corners region, rallied at the last of eight public scoping meetings to call for relief from oil and gas drilling in the Greater Chaco area. Today at Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, AZ, community members [...]
Devin Neeley FARMINGTON -- There are people in parts of New Mexico who are breathing air that doesn't meet national standards. One region is working to change that. In the American Lung Association’s 2016 State of the Air report, San Juan County received a failing grade for ozone. The level is under EPA standards, just barely, [...]
In my comic novel Cooperative Village, I poke the mildest of fun at bossy, nosy Cooperators in a Lower East Side cooperative housing complex who use their community’s online message board to foist their unsolicited advice on others….“even if you don’t ask, if they think you need their help, you’ll get it anyway, like it [...]
(Photo: Daily Times file photo) FARMINGTON — A fire that broke out at a WPX Energy oil production site near Nageezi in July most likely was started by equipment failure. The company released information on its websiteTuesday from an assessment completed by Advanced Engineering Investigations Corp. that examined the cause of the fire. Advanced Engineering Investigations completed an engineering [...]
By Eleanor Bravo 11.21.16 The Sioux are groups of Native American tribes in North America. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, along with the Hunkpapa and Blackfeet bands, is part of the Great Sioux Nation. In 1868 the lands of the Great Sioux Nation were reduced in the Fort Laramie Treaty to the east side of the Missouri River and the state line of South Dakota in the west. The last major armed conflict [...]