Consider these facts:
Electricity providers owned by municipalities in New Mexico have 25% lower residential average monthly bills than IOUs and coops.
Local Choice Energy legislation includes protections for workers and unions.
Locally-generated electricity is more reliable and resilient than the status quo.
Economic risks – The economic risks posed by potential contamination of groundwater wells and the San Juan River are enormous. The river is a primary water source for Navajo and Jicarilla Apache people – well over 50 percent of the San Juan River watershed are Native American lands. The impacts of contamination will be much more widespread, with nearly every major population in New Mexico impacted by the river, whose waters are diverted to feed the Rio Grande reaching all the way to Albuquerque.
In the final analysis – the New Mexico Constitution is the People’s Document, it should be up to New Mexicans if they want it amended.