EXCERPT:"On another note: I was reading a publication put out by “The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund,” entitled, “How to Ban Fracking Despite Corporate Rights and State Preemption.” People wanted to know what “fracking” meant. Fracking simply means “messing with the natural elements, water being the most important.” There were two quotes that caught my eye. The first was, “Getting fracked is not inevitable unless we assume there’s nothing we can do. It’s not inevitable unless we are willing to surrender our fundamental rights without a fight.
In other words, if we as citizens sit around and do nothing, big corporations with money will come in and do as they please with our land and our water."
COMMENT:
Call your county commissioners and let them know you support the "Mora County Community Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance" and want them to vote on it now!
Commission chair: Paula Garcia, 505 429 2621
Commissioner: Laudente Quintana, 575 666 2143
Commissioner: John Olivas (sponsoring this ordinance for the citizens of Mora County) (505) 379-5551
Rosalie Regensberg, Holman, Mora County, New Mexico
September 29, 2011
I would like to follow up on Alex Montoya’s letter to the editor (published Sept. 9) about the Help New Mexico office in Mora County.
As a prior elected official, I can truly say, that the Help office is one of the programs that has been of much help, and proved to be effective to those less fortunate, who are not lazy, but need a shove in the right direction. These people who go to the Help office are the same people who cast their votes on election day. So be very careful with labels. As the saying goes, “There (but for) the grace of God go I.”
On another note: I was reading a publication put out by “The Community Environmental Legal Fund,” entitled, “How to Ban Fracking Despite Corporate Rights and State Preemption.” People wanted to know what “fracking” meant. Fracking simply means “messing with the natural elements, water being the most important.” There were two quotes that caught my eye. The first was, “Getting fracked is not inevitable unless we assume there’s nothing we can do. It’s not inevitable unless we are willing to surrender our fundamental rights without a fight.”
Another quote by (author) Salley Kempton reads, “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”
I love my people, but they are hard to understand. They gave me such a hard time about the location of the solid waste, which is still in the same place anyway, but the majority seems to prefer not to get involved in such important issues, such as “fracking.”
