EARTHWORKS Oil & Gas Accountability Project
March 28, 2009
Hello everyone -
As we reported earlier this month, Governor Richardson has proposed amendments to the state’s new Pit Rule.
The public hearing on these amendments will be:
Thursday
April 2, 2009
9:00 am
Porter Hall
1220 South St. Francis Drive
Santa Fe, New Mexico
PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT BY ATTENDING THE HEARING AND URGING THE OIL CONSERVATION COMMISSION TO UPHOLD CURRENT PROTECTIONS.
BACKGROUND:
OGAP, New Mexico Citizens for Clean Air and Water and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, representatives on Governor Richardson’s Pit Rule Task Force - and official parties to the lengthy rulemaking process in 2007 and 2008 - will urge the state not to rollback standards that currently limit the toxicity level of wastes that are buried on oil and gas well sites throughout New Mexico. While we are gravely concerned with the process by which the proposed amendments to the Pit Rule were generated, we are most concerned with the proposal to “increase the chloride waste standard for closure of temporary pits or drying pads by on-site trench burial from 250 milligrams per liter (mg/l) to the greater of 3000 mg/l.” It is a shame the proposed Pit Rule changes had no stakeholder input other than industry input and were not subject to any meaningful public discussion. The three organizations filed a motion to continue/delay the hearing for 30 days in order to give us more time to prepare and provide technical information given that everyone has been consumed with the Legislative Session which just ended a week ago. We’ve heard that our motion will be denied and we should receive official notice of that decision shortly. The Governor has proposed six amendments to the Pit Rule. For full detail on the six proposals, please click on the link below. The OGAP website is chock full of information on the Pit Rule hearing, chemicals used in drilling operations, etc. A link to that webpage is provided below as well.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PITS AND NEW MEXICO HEALTH AND TOXICS ISSUES:
http://www.earthworksaction.org/NMToxics.cfm
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE HEARING AND THE PIT RULE AMENDMENTS:
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ocd/documents/4-2OCCMEETINGspecial.pdf
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ocd/documents/Application030209WebPosting.pdf
Common Ground United
March 28, 2009
Hello everyone -
As we reported earlier this month, Governor Richardson has proposed amendments to the state’s new Pit Rule.
The public hearing on these amendments will be:
Thursday
April 2, 2009
9:00 am
Porter Hall
1220 South St. Francis Drive
Santa Fe, New Mexico
PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT BY ATTENDING THE HEARING AND URGING THE OIL CONSERVATION COMMISSION TO UPHOLD CURRENT PROTECTIONS.
BACKGROUND:
OGAP, New Mexico Citizens for Clean Air and Water and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, representatives on Governor Richardson’s Pit Rule Task Force - and official parties to the lengthy rulemaking process in 2007 and 2008 - will urge the state not to rollback standards that currently limit the toxicity level of wastes that are buried on oil and gas well sites throughout New Mexico. While we are gravely concerned with the process by which the proposed amendments to the Pit Rule were generated, we are most concerned with the proposal to “increase the chloride waste standard for closure of temporary pits or drying pads by on-site trench burial from 250 milligrams per liter (mg/l) to the greater of 3000 mg/l.” It is a shame the proposed Pit Rule changes had no stakeholder input other than industry input and were not subject to any meaningful public discussion. The three organizations filed a motion to continue/delay the hearing for 30 days in order to give us more time to prepare and provide technical information given that everyone has been consumed with the Legislative Session which just ended a week ago. We’ve heard that our motion will be denied and we should receive official notice of that decision shortly. The Governor has proposed six amendments to the Pit Rule. For full detail on the six proposals, please click on the link below. The OGAP website is chock full of information on the Pit Rule hearing, chemicals used in drilling operations, etc. A link to that webpage is provided below as well.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PITS AND NEW MEXICO HEALTH AND TOXICS ISSUES:
http://www.earthworksaction.org/NMToxics.cfm
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE HEARING AND THE PIT RULE AMENDMENTS:
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ocd/documents/4-2OCCMEETINGspecial.pdf
http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ocd/documents/Application030209WebPosting.pdf
Common Ground United
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You want heated homes, air conditioned schools for your kids and grandkids, you want good highways, you want good and services brought to your community, you want continued high revenues for the state coffers, you want to drive your little compact vehicle anywhere you want to go, and possibly hitch a jetliner to LA. But you don't want any petroleum development. What idiots.
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