Below is an email alert from the New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) regarding HB 429, Private Right of Action:
Hello:
You are receiving this because you would probably want to have the right to sue to enforce New Mexico's environmental laws against polluters. This is especially important when the state agencies and/or attorney general choose not go after polluters.
There is a law pending which would allow just that. You can obtain
additional information about it at:
http://nmenvirolaw.org/index.php/site/more/private_right_of_action_act_a_tool_to_help_the_state_stop_polluters_from_po/
The following legislator needs to hear from you, your family and friends, ASAP.
He needs to hear that this is a law that New Mexico needs to protect our
environment and assure environmental justice to our communities.
It is very important that your legislators hear that you want the Private Right
of Action bill passed.
Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with this legislation if you
have not done so already and then call your legislators and pass on the word to
others to do the same. The list below is for a key legislative vote:
Rep. Jim Trujillo, Santa Fe
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If you have access to mass email lists
that will target people who have the above representative, please customize
this mailing and pass it on.
This is needed NOW.
Thank you and please excuse any cross-posting of this message.
And thank you for taking time to advance this issue!
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ADD "LUCKY" VARELLA
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Santa Fe
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Engineering
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Not surprisingly, the bill is tabled 8-2.
There seems to be a lot of interest in SB 547 (see previous posts about the fracking ban). It has been rescheduled to be heard tomorrow (March 2) at 8:30am in Room 326 by the Senate Conservation Committee.
There appears to be an amendment to the bill, which would exclude about 20% of New Mexico consisting of the NW and SE areas where drilling is established on a commercial scale.
The fracking ban bill (see previous post) was not heard. No Republicans showed; no quorum. To be rescheduled...
Wednesday Night Movie Series,
Shows begin at 7pm
February 27
Rooted Lands
“Fracking has become a burning issue in Mora and San Miguel counties in recent years. Now a documentary film chronicling local efforts to hold fracking at bay is hitting the big screen in Las Vegas.” – Las Vegas Optic
The
rural villages of Mora and San Miguel in New Mexico stand up and speak
out against one of the world’s most powerful and dirty industries.
Rooted Lands explores the citizen grassroots movement against gas and
oil development tactics that include fracking and dramatic production of
waste products. As mineral leases are bought by oil and gas speculators
in rural counties like Mora and San Miguel, NM citizens are learning
they must stand up to protect land and culture from suffering the Four
Corners fate: “Mora County…is still pristine. They’re fighting to keep
it that way. We’ve already lost that here [in the Four Corners]. The
wellheads are leaking. The pits have overflowed…” Rooted Lands shows how
the residents of mostly Hispanic villages (among the poorest
communities in the U.S.) are speaking out against the powerful, dirty
industry that threatens NM’s land and water.
“This is how we change federal law, folks, it starts at the bottom.”
Selection for Santa Fe Film Festival 2012
Selection for Wild and Scenic Film Festival 2013
Running time: 64 minutes.
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