New Mexico & El Paso
The annual election for the Club’s Board of Directors is now underway. Those eligible to vote in the national Sierra Club election will receive in the mail (or by Internet if you chose the electronic delivery option) your national Sierra Club ballot in early March. This will include information on the candidates and where you can find additional information on the Club’s web site.
Always refreshing to visit the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park. We had the expertise of RGNC’s Instructional Coordinator Karen, as well as RGNC’s volunteer naturalist Sue. We spotted a porcupine napping perched on the top of a tree, a
Continue the momentum on February 13 as we focus on Lands, Water and Wildlife at the Roundhouse – including workshops, information tables and meeting your legislators.
Please join us on February 8 at the Sierra Club office for the First Friday Arts reception of works by Barbara Endicott. Refreshments will be provided, and 30% of sales benefit the Sierra Club.
NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has said the she will end efforts of a diversion project on the Gila River, given the “there is little to show for the millions of dollars spent on staff, lawyer and studies.”
As most of you know by now, it was an extraordinarily successful election season for the Sierra Club here in New Mexico.
There are approximately 100 uranium-powered plants in the United States. They are located in urban centers near waterways that are used to cool the operation of the power plants. Utility owners and these communities’ elected officials are “decommissioning” aged-out uranium-powered plants. As there is no technology capable of removing radiation, they are looking to ‘store’ the waste in rural areas such as our backyard.
The Public Regulation Commission on December 19 moved New Mexico one step closer to a nearly coal-free future. The commission accepted PNM’s “Integrated Resource Plan,” a 20-year plan that outlines PNM’s goal to retire the plant by 2022.
A new report by the Wilderness Society and Taxpayers for Common Sense provides an analysis of state regulations for managing natural-gas waste across the eight states with federal oil and gas leasing and production. New Mexico is worst on almost all measures.
Article from the Albuquerque Journal, 1/21/2019 with quotes from Camilla Feibelman.