Mora County commissioners to consider oil drilling ban

According to Staci Matlock of The Santa Fe New Mexican (Mora residents split over drilling, Feb. 26, 2008) Mora County commissioners will be holding a meeting on March 7th to discuss taking the radical step of banning all drilling for oil and gas throughout the county. Some residents are concerned about potential harm to endangered [...]

Loss of Wind in Texas Causes Power Emergency

While the media are more than happy to talk about global warming and the joys of “renewable” energy sources, I bet you missed this story from last week.
What happened is that the utility’s grid frequency dropped suddenly when wind production fell from more than 1,700 megawatts, before the event, to 300 MW when an emergency [...]

Energy Efficient Light Bulbs May Leak Toxic Mercury: Still Safe?

Tucked away in the last Energy Bill passed by Congress and signed by the President was a little-discussed provision that banned incandescent light bulbs by 2014. Now, as it turns out, if the new bulbs break (the curled bulbs are on sale in many stores now) the mercury contained in them will leak out.

In [...]

Renewables or Nukes?

Ned Farquhar has become one of my favorite opponents recently. He can always be counted on to represent and write about the latest energy and environmental issues from the green angle. In today’s Albuquerque Journal, he argues that nuclear power is not safe, not cheap, and will inevitably fall into the hands of terrorists. While [...]

New Law Increases Regulation of Utility Companies

The New Mexico state legislature has recently passed House Bill 305, sponsored by Speaker Ben Lujan of Santa Fe, which will impose new mandatory regulations on utility companies throughout the state in an attempt to make them more accountable to environmental concerns.
While encouraging commercial, industrial, and residential growth in New Mexico, our state government will [...]

Galisteo Basin Drilling a Boon, not Bane, for New Mexico

The issue of whether or not to drill in the Galisteo Basin has consumed Santa Fe’s local politics over the next several months. Not surprisingly, given Santa Fe’s politics, this has gone over about as well as well as a third term for President Bush would. Governor Richardson has responded to the outcry by the [...]

Wingnut op-ed hits Journal/Tribune

Rarely does an opinion piece get published in both the Albuquerque Tribune and the Journal, but recently an outfit called the Quivira Coalition which is holding their annual conference in Albuquerque, scored that success.
Unfortunately, the Coalition seems to be like so many other environmental groups in wishing to turn back the clock on modernity. We [...]

Jason Marks Misses the Mark

I didn’t come up with the title for this piece which appeared in today’s Albuquerque Journal so the point is not that renewable energy should be considered at the same level as fossil fuels.
My real point is that Marks unfairly targets the very energy industry that does so much for New Mexico’s economy in a [...]

Energy Bill: Hidden Surprise

Just a few days ago, I wrote about a few of the worst provisions contained in the Energy Bill. Now, come to find out that tucked away in this waste of paper was a measure that will force the traditional incandescent light bulb off the market by 2012.
So, by 2012, Americans will be forced to [...]

The Journal: Mistaken on Energy Bill

On Sunday, the Albuquerque Journal editorialized in favor of (subscription needed) the Senate-passed Energy Bill, calling it “Smarter Energy Policy.” The Bill, which stripped out tax hikes on the oil and gas industry and requirements that utilities generate 15 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020, may be “smarter” than the House version [...]

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