We only know the day of the meeting at which local elected officials and staff will present their top five capital projects and request that our state legislators fund them from their collective $1.5 million or so. As usual, the public is not welcome, despite the obvious public interest.
This article begins a fund drive for the Citizen. Please either click the donation links on this site or send a check to SCP-IJP, P.O. Box 156, Hillsboro, NM 88042. In exchange I offer some food for thought about how Our President is looking out for us common folks.
We finally got some media coverage of the Hearing that took place two weeks ago in Hillsboro. The Las Cruces New Mexican ran two articles on the mine, one covering the Hearing and the other giving a timeline of the mine. I link to both articles.
I had a Cassandra moment. It thought the city might be planning to extend water out to the airport and dig a new well out there. That would be a massive burden on the people who are already paying for years of neglect of the water system in compounding repairs.
Trump may want more emphasis on paper-ballot voting and counting, but States still control voting. Despite our voting system vendor selling out to a Republican, it looks like nothing much will change, at least not in the upcoming election.
We asked tough questions of Whitehead and she answered promptly. That should make voters feel more secure about the election.
Copper Flat Mine needs so much water to operate that it will have long term impacts on the water use in this county for decades to come. It also needs a huge amount of electricity. How will that consumption affect the rest of us electricity users?
How many times have you experienced extremely low water pressure, yet the city issued no boil-water order? This time City Manager Gary Whitehead was responsible and truthful and issued one.
Continuing to think about the 500 acres of stacked tailings and what can keep the tailings from sliding downhill, I turn to the mine’s submitted technical studies on this subject. These studies do not give assurance that the miners know the answer to that question either. This is dangerous.
Several months ago, a PAWA member asked me what kept the big stack of tailings (500 acres and 200 feet deep) proposed at Copper Flat Mine from sliding down the hill. I try to answer that question. This is the first of a two-part article.
We owe the one and a half year turnaround of the city's wastewater treatment plant problems to City Manager Gary Whitehead. He's saved the people a lot of time, money and liability.
We calculate whether NMCC has enough water to mine Copper Flat in the manner proposed in its application to mine. It does not. Why, then, has NMCC applied for a mining permit?