The Fossil Fuel industry
threatens our drinking water supplies and air quality of Albuquerque and the
Rio Grande Valley that will exacerbate extreme drought conditions and cause
health impacts. We could see these impacts very soon because Albuquerque and Rio
Rancho now face similar property takings
as the Pine Ridge and Standing Rock Sioux Nations are now experiencing and hundreds of other communities across the
US
The water protectors are here
to tell you that “The DAPL FIGHT IS NOW ON YOUR DOORSTEP! [i]
On November 20th, 2016, the excessive force violence water
protectors endured maimed and injured nearly 300 protectors with paramilitary
using surveillance, tear gas, rubber bullets, sound cannons, water cannons with
impunity against unarmed prayerful
citizens. [ii]North
Dakota white nationalist Morton County Sheriff inflicted this violence with the help of TigerSwan, (A.K.A. Blackwater) paramilitary operations. The para-militarized border at Standing Rock
is repressive, Illegal and unconstitutional.
According to Former Mayor Jim
Baca’s Blog that Mayor Berry has considered using TigerSwan, (A.K.A.
Blackwater) paramilitary operations to counter freedom of assembly and free
speech in Albuquerque, all in the name of public safety.[iii] Mayor
Berry and Brad Winter armed with the knowledge of 8,000 wells West of
Albuquerque and potential resistance is considering paramilitary response to
use on the citizens of Albuquerque giving them a foothold into the State of New
Mexico. Are they going to paramilitarize
the West Mesa like they did Standing Rock Sioux Tribe?
This is an industry that has
corrupted and has colluded with government officials and legislators to ignore
regulations, laws, and invade state agencies to write bogus ordinances and
allows de-regulation that govern oil industries whose private profits
supersedes without regard for the millions of people in this country that have property
taken and their health and welfare ruined in the process.
WPX is one of the most
egregious air emitters and dirtiest corporations operating in NM and now
shamefully, the Governor appointed this huckster CEO head of the Oil and Gas
Conservation Bureau. We have no State
Government protecting us from oil and gas takings.[iv]
The oil and gas ordinance
that is currently being written for Sandoval County is a sham, in that Industry
has had input. The OAG Found Sandoval in Violation of IPRA [v]
needless to say the County still refuses to give us the safety plans we asked
for. Meanwhile, the group of 40 NM
residents working on this ordinance, working to protect their water and air are
left out of the process and will be collateral damage, as they have been
disenfranchised from the process.[vi] The
democratic process in New Mexico is at imminent risk because the people’s
voices go unheard. A government that does not protect its citizens from health
and welfare risks becomes the corporate state of inverted totalitarianism.
These type of considerations
are shameful and opens government up to more litigation at the taxpayer expense,
it is the wrong approach for all.
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