LNG fires burn hot enough to cause second-degree burns on exposed skin up to a mile away. LNG facilities pose significant risks to nearby population centers and have been identified as potential terrorist targets.
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.
Sandoval County. will be impacted too! In the Southern Part of Middle Rio Grande Valley In Valencia County Harvey Yates…
“NMED should hold a public hearing which would result in a full investigation into the March 2018 radioactive waste disposal in the Rio Rancho Waste Management landfill and the August 2019 radioactive brine water disposal into the Rio Rancho sewer treatment facility.”
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As far as protections for the Albuquerque basin, at least the MRCOG voting members will not be able to say they were not aware of the problem.