Battle Over Mount Taylor
Americans are increasingly being asked to decide whether or not to allow or disallow resources to be accessed on both public and private lands. Unfortunately, the attitude that somehow certain people are “above” having resource exploited on or near their lands has become more prevalent in recent years and is to a large extent responsible [...]
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Anti-Energy Bill Dies, Saves US Economy…for now
In case you missed the news, “cap and trade” legislation ostensibly to fight global warming, died in the US Senate late this week. Senator Domenici actively opposed the legislation (which would have resulted in a massive new hidden tax) and made an eloquent statement to that effect on the Senate floor.
In the meantime, a supposed [...]
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RGF Film Events Draw Crowds
Last week, the Rio Grande Foundation and CARE (the Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy) held a series of showings of the film Mine Your Own Business in Albuquerque, Farmington, and Roswell. As this article from the Farmington Daily Times discusses, the film drew a crowd (80 people) in Farmington. This included some [...]
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Options w/ More Mileage than ANWR
Ned Farquhar, a regular columnist for the Albuquerque Journal, is one of my favorite punching bags. His stances on most issues are predictably left-wing and rely on the coercive power of big-government.
A recent column of his, “Four Options with More Mileage than ANWR,” remains stuck in my crawl. In his article, Farquhar expresses his opposition [...]
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Farmington Daily-Times Covers our Mine Your Own Business Showings in New Mexico
In case you are not aware, the Rio Grande Foundation and the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) are hosting free film events around the New Mexico. We are showing the film Mine Your Own Business in an effort to expose the real agenda of all-too-many in the environmental movement.
The Farmington Daily-Times had an excellent [...]
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Rio Grande Foundation Partners with CARE for Film Event Exposing Environmental Hypocrisy
Mark you calendars now! The Rio Grande Foundation and CARE (the Citizen’s Alliance for Responsible Energy) are partnering to bring a powerful film event to New Mexico!
On May 20-22 we will be showing the movie Mine Your Own Business in New Mexico.
Albuquerque–May 20: State Bar of New Mexico, 5121 Masthead NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
Roswell–May 21: [...]
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Earth Day
It is Earth Day and over at Eye on Albuquerque, the author has an excellent posting on the mixed significance of the environmental movement today. While it is certainly good to limit our ecological footprint, environmentalists seem more concerned about taking away our freedoms and putting the state in control of society’s resources.
The irony here [...]
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Deregulate Energy Market to Solve PNM Situation
As many New Mexicans know, the state’s main utility is currently fighting the state’s regulatory agency, the Public Regulation Commission, for a major rate increase. In today’s Alamogordo Daily News, I discuss the potential benefits of deregulating utilities in order to allow customers to determine for themselves where to buy their energy and what price [...]
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Happy “Turn Out the Lights Day”
Environments are sometimes their own worst enemies. Today’s celebration of “Earth Hour” during which major cities across the country turn off the lights for an hour is one of those examples. Thankfully, Mayor Marty hasn’t signed Albuquerque up for this ridiculous stunt, but if the concept catches on, I bet he’ll be first in line.
So, [...]
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PNM Rate Debate Shows Need for Free Market in Energy
The financial market intelligence provider, Standard & Poor’s, has recently changed Public Service Company of New Mexico’s bond “outlook from stable to negative.” (Matt Mygatt, The New Mexican/Associated Press, Mar. 22, 2008) Other financial speculators, including Moody’s and Fitch Ratings, are either considering or have acted on reducing PNM’s bond status.
PNM’s bond status [...]
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