I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Wednesday night the City of Albuquerque’s Air Quality Division is hosting the second part of a hearing on the subject of a North Valley cement plant’s request for a permit that will allow it to operate 24 hours a day. The first hearing on the proposed permit change, held in late June, included a lengthy presentation by the cement company, but only some of the residents who had signed up to testify had time to do so. Audience members requested that the city schedule a second meeting to accommodate everyone who wanted to speak.
It will be held tonight from 6-10 p.m. at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, in the Silver and Turquoise Room.
American Cement (owned by Grupo Cementos Chihuahua) is a transfer station where cement is unloaded from rail cars and transferred into trucks that haul the dry powder to construction sites.
Neighbors have complained bitterly about noise, traffic and dust from the plant. The dust, they say, covers their cars and trees and clogs their swamp coolers. At the first hearing many, including employees at the Albuquerque Museum Foundation’s nearby office in a historic hacienda, said they were worried, despite assurances from executives and a toxicologist hired by the company, that the quantity of dust released from the plant is harmful to their health.
