A Roswell businessman is proposing to build a private 145-mile water pipeline from Fort Sumner to Santa Fe, through which water can be leased from Fort Sumner. Ron Green says in the Santa Fe New Mexican article that as a market for delivering water has become feasible as the the value of water has risen. He also said that delivering the water to Santa Fe may slow down the escalating market for water rights in the middle Rio Grande region.

 

Election ‘08 is almost over

Today is the final day before this historic election year draws to a close. Those of you who are registered to vote but didn’t go early, get ready for an onslaught of doorhangers, mail and phone calls today and tomorrow. Please be nice.

All the national polls show Obama in the lead, and here in New Mexico many are predicting a Democratic sweep of federal offices. We’ll see. None of it is stopping John McCain from mining for votes in southern New Mexico. He stops in Roswell today.


Will uranium mining in the west really lead to economic revitalization? Maybe, maybe not

The New Mexico Environmental Law Center released a study last week that says the estimates of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue from a “rebirth” of the uranium mining industry in western New Mexico are a “gross exaggeration” due to the “boom and bust cycles” of extractive industries. Instead, NMELC staff attorney Eric Jantz told the Associated Press that the economic driver in the region are the landscape, plus clean air and water, which are sustainable and have an inherent value.