Candidate Forums
City Council District 6 Candidate Forum
Held Sept 11, 2023.
Attending: Kristin 'Raven' Greene, Jeff Hoehn, Abel Otero, Nichole Rogers
Zoom replay. link
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New Mexicans Against Avangrid
PNM/Avangrid Merger is back in the news
The NM Supreme Court will hear the appeal from Avangrid/PNM. They are appealing the decision from the former PRC who denied their merger as being 'not in the public interest'. Check out this new website from the New Mexico Foundation for Civic Excellence to learn more. Write to the PRC Commissioners about how bad this merger will be.
Follow along during the hearing on September 11, 2023. Watch it live here.
Important Lawsuit to Follow
Additional Information
At the meeting on July 3, 2023, we heard about a lawsuit filed on May 10, 2023.
See the website here - information below was taken from that site.
The Pollution Control Clause of the New Mexico Constitution (Art XX. Sec. 21), adopted in 1971:
The protection of the state's beautiful and healthful environment is hereby declared to be of fundamental importance to the public interest, health, safety and the general welfare. The legislature shall provide for control of pollution and control of despoilment of the air, water, and other natural resources of this state, consistent with the use and development of these resources for the maximum benefit of the people.
The pollution-control clause of the New Mexico Constitution was adopted more than 50 years ago. But since then the legislature has failed to put in place laws and programs to control pollution from oil and gas and has even exempted industry from key environmental-protection statutes. Putting polluters over people, it gives oil and gas a free pass to contaminate land, air and water, and damage Indigenous ancestral landscapes. By authorizing oil and gas extraction without adequate pollution controls, the state is violating its own Constitution.
- The state is violating its duty to protect our beautiful and healthful environment and protect our air, water and other natural resources from despoilment.
- The state is violating the fundamental constitutional rights to, life, liberty, property, safety and happiness, as well as equal treatment of frontline, youth, and Indigenous communities who are disproportionately harmed.
Read more about how the State allows it's own laws to be violated.
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Learn More
Read the actual case filing, an executive summary and learn about the toxic waste spills, dangerous air quality, how we lose our valuable freshwater and devastation of our sacred places.
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