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.
The New Mexico Gas Company could face penalties for gas outages that affected tens of thousands of residents on a day where temperatures reached record lows throughout the state. The outages occurred in early February.
The Taos News reported:
PRC spokesman Gerald Garner Jr. said in an email Tuesday that the PRC is now in the “post-hearing briefing stage.” Once that is complete, Garner said the commission could levy fines against New Mexico Gas Co. or order changes to state rules that dictate how utilities are to handle such an outage.
Meanwhile, the federal Energy Regulation Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corp. are combining efforts to investigate the gas outages in New Mexico and related blackouts in Texas. Those agencies are responsible for overseeing the nation’s electrical system and for developing and enforcing reliability standards.
The outages have been blamed on electrical outages in Texas which effected New Mexico Gas Company’s supplier.
The Taos News reports that this comes after two days of testimony last week with the Public Regulations Commission, a powerful regulatory body in the state, during which company officials said they did all that was possible to avoid any outages. Local officials disagreed.
Officials also complained that they were given little information during the outages that lasted days for some communities.
At the time, Gov. Susana Martinez declared a state of emergency because of the gas outages and the cold.
