SUPPORT SB 104
(formerly SB 459)
Hydraulic Fracturing Permits & Reporting
#PauseOnFracking
We Need Your Help
Dear Residents and Activist,
Please call or email Governor Lujan Grisham and Legislators
Demand the Governor put the Fracking Moratorium Bill (SB 104) on the call for this session so it can be heard in committee.
New Mexico's short 30-day legislative session has begun. We all need to work together to support frontline and Indigenous communities affected by fracking, as well as supporting the youth's call from immediate action on the climate crisis. It is important to send these letters and make the calls to show the governor and legislators public support for a moratorium on fracking in New Mexico. We will continue a campaign throughout the year until a moratorium is passed.
Please call Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, (505) 476-2200 or email the Governor today! State that you support the fracking bill SB 104.
Ask the Governor to Declare a Climate Emergency
Ask her to add the Fracking Legislation (SB 104) to the Governor's Call.
Let her know why this legislation is important to you.
Remind her of the benefits of this bill
Bring this recent event to the attention of our lawmakers. The January 21th explosion of a "produced water" line - just 100 feet from a family residence in Carlsbad - illuminates the serious gaps in a broken regulatory system that are putting the health and safety of all New Mexicans at risk. The disposal of so-called "produced water"- in reality, the fracking industry's toxic waste - is creating a public health emergency of unprecedented scope across America. In 2018, more than 42 billion gallons of produced water were created in NM's Permian Basin alone. Please take the time to read this letter, follow the links, and send it on to our elected officials. We can be silent no longer.
Read SB 104 for yourself. SB 104 is sponsored by Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (D-Dist. 16) and Senator Patricia Roybal Caballero (D-Dist. 13). We need this bill to address health studies, health protections and safety Issues from fracking in New Mexico.
SENATE BILL 104:
PROHIBIT NEW HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PERMITS
AN ACT RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCES; PROHIBITING THE ISSUANCE OF NEW HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PERMITS; CREATING REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
SPONSORS:
Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Patricia Roybal Caballero
KEY COMPONENTS:
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
SB 104 calls on the constitutional obligation of the New Mexico Legislature to control pollution and protect the air, water and other natural resources of this state. It places a four-year moratorium on new oil and gas permits wherein the Energy Minerals Natural Resources Department, Department of Agriculture, Environment Department, Department of Health, Department of Transportation, Office of the State Engineer, Indian Affairs Department, and Workers Compensation Administration and Workforce Solutions Department are directed to report on the impacts of hydraulic fracturing, as well as provide recommendations for legislation and appropriations to conduct analysis.
BACKGROUND:
In a presentation before Senate Conservation Committee during the 2019 Legislative session, New Mexico's Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department revealed that the State has little information about the impacts of fracking and that there is nothing in the law currently that allows them to regulate multi-stage horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing differently than conventional vertical drilling. In the past year, New Mexico became the third biggest oil and gas producing state in the nation by drilling what’s-now the world’s largest oilfield in the Permian Basin, threatening to exhaust 10% of the global carbon budget. Now a net-exporter of crude, companies ship oil overseas and leave New Mexicans with adverse health impacts and massive amounts of radioactive fracking waste. With the 2019 passage of the Produced Water Act (HB546), this waste, re-labeled water, may make its way into rivers, streams, and onto crops.
PROBLEM:
New Mexico’s leadership are unable to make informed decisions regarding oil and gas regulation because there is a glaring lack of knowledge and reporting requirements related to multi-stage hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling and the impacts of this industry on our lands, water, air, and public health and safety.
SOLUTION:
SB 104 finally provides for the State of New Mexico to learn the truth about fracking. The Bill
allows for reasonable restraint, asking for a pause on new fracking permits until state
agencies are able to report to decision makers.
“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.”
-Article XX, Section 21 of the New Mexico Constitution.
It’s good business to do your research.
This isn’t conventional oil and gas. This bill helps us look before we leap.
We don’t know enough about fracking in New Mexico other states have already done studies.
Support transparency. Pause for protections.
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