Locals, at least historically, don't insist on being informed and made part of capital projects. They elect officials and then "have faith" in them and "trust" them. Historically our elected officials abdicate their oversight duties. Historically city managers, for ill or good, decide our built environment.
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.
An insider's view of how elections are conducted at polling places by a poll worker for many years suggests nepotism and lack of training for election officers are a problem.
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.
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?
Guest Contributor Norm Gaume is a water resources engineer, former director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and president of New Mexico Water Advocates. He has worked on New Mexico water policy and management for decades.
Those who think about the economy in Sierra County should be comfortable with dollars and sense. Here is a dollar and sense way to think about copper mining at Copper Flat.
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 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?
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