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Letters

  • Mayor Ortiz isn’t the problem
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  • Mora should return ‘dirty money’

    John Olivas is quoted as saying, “It’s time for all communities to do what we’ve done — announce the end to extractive industries . . .”

    Let’s see whether he’s ready to put the county’s money where his mouth is.

    The $1.85 million just appropriated for Mora County’s use on its unfinished county complex comes from severance tax bonds, which are themselves funded by severance tax paid by those extractive industries.

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  • Drilling ban pushed by outsiders

    I see that everybody from Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Farmington, just to name a few, are more than willing to pledge Mora County’s resources (hello-what resources) to a legal battle challenging state and federal constitutions. Why don’t these people stay home and put their efforts into persuading their own counties to take up this losing fight?

    Ed Littleton
    Ojo Feliz
     

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  • Mora ordinance is constitutional

    Why are corporate America and gun owners the only people in America who are allowed to interpret without question the U.S. Constitution? The rest of us are met with skepticism and alarm from various authorities and elected officials when we read, think about and use the Constitution for ourselves to assert our rights. Recent passage of the Las Vegas and Mora County Community Rights ordinances illustrate this bias.

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  • Glad drilling ban adopted

    Congratulations to the Mora County Commissioners who voted to protect the beautiful land of Mora County.

    NPR radio recently shared a study addressing the effects of pollution on air, water and soil from gas and oil drilling. The conclusion of the study indicated that science has done very little regarding the effect on the environment.

    The study also pointed out that some of the rules and regulations EPA is to apply in monitoring natural gas and oil drilling won’t even take effect until three years from now.

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  • Commissioners were courageous
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  • Letter writer responds

    Frank Splendoria’s letter (April 26-28 Optic) requested my source for the number of oil and gas spills with groundwater impact. It was the NM Oil Conservation Division database, as queried on Nov. 29, 2012, http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ocd/. An Apr. 30, 2013 query listed 15,586 self-reported spills, of which 747 are tagged “Groundwater Impact.”

    Bob Wessely
    San Miguel County

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  • Mil Gracias - May 6, 2013

    Comcast Cares Day was held last Saturday at the First Born of Northern New Mexico office at 1900B Hot Springs Blvd.

    We had 26 people participate in Comcast Cares Day, which seems small compared to the 70,000 people worldwide who were doing Comcast Day, but to us it was very important. Our facility got all the woodwork painted in the building plus the kitchen. Carpeting was shampooed and a new front door was donated and installed. The final upgrade was window flower boxes on our porch, which are beautiful.

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  • Communities won’t remain passive

    This is a really big day for Mora. Outsiders from big oil consistently would be at our commissioner meetings. Never making eye contact or inviting any sort of greeting, the big oil minions made my stomach turn. In their minds Mora had already been divided into 64 pads, each host to four wells. I congratulate two commissioners’ hard work: John Olivas and Alfonso Griego for not laying waste the land of our forefathers.

    Ken Bugler
    Orofino, Idaho
    (Former Mora County resident)  
     

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  • Olivas, Griego ‘true heroes’

    As a property owner in Mora County, I would like to commend our County Commissioners John Olivas and Alfonso Griego for standing up for the citizens of Mora County on April 29 by passing the community water rights and local self-government ordinance. They have taken a huge step showing their courage, integrity, and commitment to protect our water and our general welfare from damaging corporate interests.

    We are faced with the threat of natural gas companies wanting to exploit our resources. The environmental impacts from gas fracking are devastating. Such as:

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