Senate Bill Would Halt All New Fracking Permits In NM

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[CedarDave]

A new bill making its way through the New Mexico Statehouse would stop fracking permits from being issued in the state. Senate Bill 149 would enact a four year moratorium on new fracking permits. An industry group says that will lead to the loss of upwards of 2-billion dollars in revenue just in one year. The bill has passed the Senate Conservation Committee on a split 5-4 vote. Bernalillo County Democrats Antoinette Sedillo Lopez and Roybal Cabellero are co-sponsoring the bill.

[CedarDave]

Impact to NM REVENUE (dollars in thousands)
Estimated Revenue Recurring or Nonrecurring Fund Affected
Parenthesis ( ) indicate revenue decreases
FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 Fund Affected
($699,175.0) ($1,274,115.0) ($1,556,240.0) ($1,784,565.0) Recurring General Fund
($170,825.0) ($292,635.0) ($374,490.0) ($445,695.0) Recurring Severance Tax Bonding Fund
($536,545.0) ($717,430.0) ($852,815.0) ($895,845.0) Recurring Land Grant Permanent Fund (royalty contribution)
($18,095.0) - ($46,920.0) - Recurring General Obligation Bonding Capacity
($226,290.0) ($462,805.0) ($561,330.0) ($640,130.0) Recurring Local Governments
($2,200.0) ($2,200.0) ($2,200.0) ($2,200.0) Recurring NMED Permit Fee Fund
($1,653,130.0) ($2,749,185.0) ($3,393,995.0) ($3,768,435.0) Recurring TOTAL

[unixfox]

Enjoy those new “Union” Green Jobs.

[CedarDave]

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[Macoozie]

ya’ll voted for this shiite.

Now, shut up and take it.

[antidemoncrat]

Didn’t NM vote for Biden? Hey NM remember elections have consequences.

[CedarDave]

Oil and gas revenue provides over one-third of all state revenue; some say it is higher - about 40 percent.

[CedarDave]

The idiot RadDem “progressives” in the ABQ-Santa Fe area voted for Biden, us working class dudes in southern NM all voted for Trump and kicked out the RadDem congressional representative while were at it. Just like rural upstate NY and inland CA, us conservatives are paying the price for the Dem control of the major population centers.

[CedarDave]

Link to Senate Bill 149 details and legislative progress:

2021 Regular Session - SB 149
PROHIBIT NEW FRACKING LICENSES

[Saltmeat]

New Mexico is the prime example of what Pogo the opossum was talking about when he uttered the words, “We have met the enemy and he are us.”

[beethovenfan]

Energy suicide. Our enemies are laughing their obamas off.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Your comment is ignorant of the political lay of the land. The livelihoods affected by this bill are down in SE. New Mexico which is more conservative than most of Texas and elected NM’s only republican congressman. Notice the bill is sponsored by rats from Bernallilo county which is Albuquerque. It is intended to punish the wrongthink coming from the SE.

On an interesting note most of the public schools in NM are funded through the state using oil and gas taxes. Many of the school districts in the SE part of the state which produce the wealth don’t take state money and pay for their own schools with local taxes.

9 months from now when Albuquerque and Santa Fe public schools are broke and crying your comment will be spot on.

[Regulator]

Um, they aren’t “us”. They’re Mexican Separatists, the spiritual heirs of Reyes Tijerina.

[Fred Hayek]

Most of the population is in Albuquerque, and add Santa Fe. Both are leftist strongholds. Eastern New Mexico is another matter. Can’t say about the Four Corners area. There is a good amount of energy industry in the Farmington-Bloomfield-Aztec area, but I can’t say how the Navajo Reservation tilts the political equation. The Rez however has a lot of coal industry, which is a big source of jobs - unless Obama shut that down. EPA is not too popular up there after that mine fiasco where FedGov poisoned one of the rivers.

[IYAS9YAS]

Didn’t NM vote for Biden? Hey NM remember elections have consequences.

According to Dominion, we did. According to many people I've talked too, no.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Hootowl99]

Now that’s a name I have not heard mentioned in some time.

[antidemoncrat]

“According to Dominion, we did. According to many people I’ve talked too, no.”

Same story from Pa, Mi, Wis and other states.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Just like rural upstate NY and inland CA, us conservatives are paying the price for the Dem control of the major population centers.

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I have observed this as well and after the last election I began to wonder is it because urban individual really support the Democrats or is it because it is easier to steal an election in the urban areas?

[antidemoncrat]

“Most of the population is in Albuquerque, and add Santa Fe. Both are leftist strongholds”

Like Texas. Big cities are mostly liberal with Austin leading the pack. A lot of Californians left and moved to the Austin area and now seem to want to make Texas like the $hit hole they left.

[CedarDave]

Not just Southeast NM. The counties who voted for Trump are shown in Red.