People's Rally OCT 19th 4:15 pm Prior to County meeting UPCOMING EVENTS

People's Rally on 'No Protections ordinance' Press Conference To Be Held Come raise your voice!  Let the County Commission hear our dissent for fast-tracking the Ordinance process. http://commongroundrising.org/fasttracking-streamline-permitting-in-sandoval-county-oil-and-gas-no-protections-ordinance/Read the latest, follow the links, read the ordinance, and download the agenda, read the followup that the San Felipe Governor wrote to Sandoval County regarding Chapman's comments of OCT. 5th. Come to the meeting and speak up! This may be the last notification we get before fracking rigs show up! 4:15 PM Prior to County Meeting       Sandoval County Admin Bldg. 3rd Floor Chambers, 1500 Idalia Rd NE, Bernalillo, NM 87004, United States Community meeting on legal options on Sandoval County Oil and Gas Ordinance  We need to set the record straight! We Need the Safety Plan!    OCT 28 2017 – LOMA COLORADO LIBRARY - 10 am – 12 noon  Saturday 755 Loma Colorado Blvd. NE Rio Rancho, NM 87124 The County Commission approval of the ordinance--Final comments are due now. We a will be posting those dates on our website. There are no water protections.There are no air protections and No public health and safety considerations. The County preempted the National Historic Preservation Act Chapter 106 The Ordinance is 9 pages that streamline permits with only best management practices. www.commongroundrising.org     DO YOU OWN A WELL? Citizens Grassroots Group Working to Protect, Water, Air and Public Health and Safety --- Come to the meeting!

DONATE TO OUR LEGAL FUND TO HELP STOP THE ORDINANCE FROM IMPLEMENTATION Donation Accepted Send to: 907 Nyasa RD SE Rio Rancho, NM 87124 For TaxExempt Donation Make Checks over $100 to: ACP&J  Memo line: Common Ground Community Trust  Smaller Donations gladly accepted  Please Help us Protect Our Water!

Common Ground Community Trust A Citizens Grassroots Group just formed the Protect Our Valley Coalition Protect our water, air, health and safety. A Citizens Advisory Board Wednesday, Oct 18th Bernalillo Range Cafe 6 pm Wednesday, Oct 25th Bernalillo Range Cafe 6 pm

FastTracking Streamline Permitting In Sandoval County Oil and Gas ‘No Protections’ Ordinance

October 15, 2017

The impacts to the Greater Chaco Canyon cultural landscape are ongoing and being ignored in the consideration of the Sandoval County Oil and Gas Ordinance. The County is failing to protect and serve the Residents in Throwing in the industry that is poisoning environments and people for the profit by a few.

Sandoval County Commissioners are slated to vote on the oil and gas ordinance OCT 19, At 6 pm, Chamber 3rd Floor, 1500 Idalia Rd Bernalillo, NM 87124. However, in a questionable OMA violation at the end of the meeting Oct. 5^th, 2017, Commissioner Block entered amendments to the oil and gas ordinance on the record and now has failed to advertise those amendments prior to the meeting and failed to respond appropriately to an IPRA request.

This is what the lack of transparency leads to — tyranny.

After this blatant OMA violation at the end of the October 5th, meeting, during Comments from the COmmission, Commissioner Chapman read into the record a statement regarding the County’s meeting with San Felipe Pueblo Governor and staff. Commissioner Chapman’s statement was refuted by the San Felipe Pueblo, Governor Ortiz, and Lt. Governor Valencia, in a follow-up letter addressing their concerns after viewing the video.  Follow up to Sandoval County Commissioner re Oct 4, 2017 meeting

This does not bode well for the County who is appearing highly discriminatory in their approach and statements regarding their false statements about the Pueblo, ignoring Issues on the lack of enforcement by the State and Federal Government on the Greater Chaco Mesa, ignoring public advisory board in this Ordinance process, with their refusal on adopting a Good Neighbor Notification Districting and Policy. It is obvious that the County Commission does not want to have a conversation with or hear and address the concerns of the Public and Pueblos on this ordinance, or the issues this ordinance brings with it. apcg2017-12 Resolution Protections of Sacred Sites

The County paid $62,000 + to NM Tech for a Water Study that will not be available until May 2018. Instead of waiting for this report, which would set an image in public perceptions of a prudent approach to creating an ordinance with protections in mind. Barreling ahead the County has doubled down with the NMOGA, independent speculators and predator oil industry landsmen in what appears to smack of crony capitalism, not the free market considerations for long-term investment in our communities need. This ordinance is all about short terms gains for a select few, while the County with the other hand works to further hurt the working class with a wage killer Right-to-Work ordinance. NM_Tech_work_order_7-17 work order for NM Tech Modeling Study 571_SC BCC O&G ORD Draft October 2017

Barreling ahead the County has doubled down with the NMOGA, independent speculators and predator oil industry landsmen, in what appears to smack of crony capitalism, not the free market considerations for long-term investment in our communities need. This ordinance is all about short terms gains for a select few, while the County with the other hand works to further hurt the working class with a wage killer, Right-to-Work ordinance.

The lack of transparency, ignoring contractual and fiscal obligations of the MTECH Water Modeling, which was a crucial part of the process, to the insulting behavior shown to the Pueblo and Dine’ leadership without addressing their outstanding issues, the County is negligent in their capacity to govern effectively and needs to come to terms with erroneous behavior. AGENDApacket__10-19-17_1741_81

With the AMREP/outer rim/Sandridge’ Permit, still active the dangers to the Rio Rancho drinking water supply are paramount.

Unannounced Item on Oct 5th County meeting: Oil and Gas Amendments Discussed and Commisioner Chapman’s Statement on San Felipe Pueblo Meeting

During an UNannounced item on the Oct 5th County Commission Meeting Not only did the County appear to Violate the open Meeting act by talking about amendments to the oil and gas ordinance, The Commissioner goes on to misrepresent the Tribal nation of San Felipe Pueblo. See the previous post for Governor Ortiz and the Lt Governor's Letter. Here is the Video Clip of the what happened last time. 

The County Commissioners are scheduled to vote to approve the Sandoval Oil and Gas Ordinance Oct 19 6 p,m Chambers 3rd Floor 1500 Idalia Rd Bernalillo 87004
people's Rally starts at 4:15 pm with a press conference.

https://youtu.be/Bq4Eky6Xj04

Active Oil/Gas Permit for Thrust Energy/AMREP Drilling Starts With Approval of Ordinance  30-043-21278 ROADRUNNER 03 1201 #001 [315649] Sandridge Permit still valid for 40 acres expires 11.10.17 Active permits with permissive use with no Public notification means Mike Springfield, planning director would rubberstamp county application permit without notification. 1 well per acres or up to 6 wells per 5 acres (This is the NMOCD allowance in NW Sandoval in the Chaco Mesa Area), means 40-150+ oil and gas wells over the aquifer and the City Rio Rancho drinking water supply to over 100,000 people including private water wells. 1.8 million gallons per are used in fracking one oil and gas well. This will potentially impact the Rio Grande and ABQ basin through over-pumping. The leak rate is 16% of all wells drilled for contamination equals 8-32 wells will leak. The above info on leaks was read/entered into the record at the last commission meeting by Alan Friedman (ESCA). There are a couple of people who think that they can keep asking for amendments to the draft, they should be supported. It is hoped that they can get "special use permitting" it would be better, but unfortunately, not qualitatively or substantially for the overall ordinance, The draft would need to be republished after any amendment. We are better off without an ordinance than to have this one. ARTICLE III. ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT. Section 3.1. Amending Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. A. The Sandoval County Board of County Commissioners hereby amends Ordinance No. 10-11-18.7A, Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of Sandoval County, to establish Oil and Gas exploration and production, and the structures and facilities associated with that use, as a Permissive use within Section 9 (1). RRA – Rural Residential Agricultural District, and to remove this use from Section 10. SU – Special Use District. What does this mean? In plain English, making oil and gas development a "Permissive use" means that applications to drill IN ANY RURAL AREA with that zoning will be rubberstamped & allowed to proceed with no public notice. You won't know an oil well is going to be drilled next to your home, your child's school, in your fields, or through your aquifer, until the rigs show up. This is what the Sandoval County Commissioners want for their community. Our coalition thinks differently because Thrust Energy will bring Sandridge / or WPX to drill these wells in the next couple of months unless we can stop this train wreck. The next meeting is Oct 19th Come to the meeting We will send update announcement on time date and location We are asking them to change the venue to allow for all comment.  PROCESS GOING FORWARD: What To Expect, what happens now The county will publish the draft ordinance for comment then hold ONLY one more meeting to approve the ordinance.  As long as the Ordinance is not amended It will be published one more time and then becomes law within 30 days. If amended they have to republish it and then hold another Final hearing. Since they are in rush to do push this through we do not think they are going to amend unless they can be convinced of liability legal threats. The County is more concerned with the O&G industry suing than with the public.We are exploring our legal options, please expect an announcement soon.  Write emails and call the Office of the Attorney General  What can you do? The "Stoddard Ordinance", quoted above, is an Oil & Gas Ordinance that will be voted on by the Sandoval County Commission as early as October 19th. The entire process has been fraught with controversy, and the ordinance as it stands now will do nothing to protect the health & safety of the citizens or our aquifers. The County has repeatedly failed to follow its own procedures for citizen input. Call the NM Attorney General and ask him to expedite the four Open Meeting Act violation complaints that have been filed with his office. 505.717.3500.   ABQ consumer Complaint Number

WHAt YOU CAN DO  Ask the County to hold a meeting in a larger forum so that people can enter their comments into the record. A public hearing is about creating a record and they must understand the irreparable harm they will do.  Be kind but firm when speaking to whomever answers. Call 505 867-7538 and email county commission ask: Maria Encinas <mencinias@sandovalcountynm.gov> the County manager’s Secretary dmaes@sandovalcountynm.govCounty manager HELP SAVE OUR WATER SHOW UP AT THE OCTOBER 19th MEETING THIS WILL BE YOU WHEN THE WATER IS UNDRINKABLE once we know venue we will send an announcement