Positive news to share from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)that New Mexico has become the first county in the United States to ban oil and gas extraction!
Congratulations!
As CELDF explains:
NEW MEXICO: The County Commission of Mora County, located in Northeastern New Mexico, became the first county in the United States to pass an ordinance banning all oil and gas extraction. Drafted with assistance from CELDF, the Mora County Community Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance establishes a local Bill of Rights - including a right to clean air and water, a right to a healthy environment, and the rights of nature - while prohibiting activities which would interfere with those rights, including oil drilling and hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," for shale gas. Read more here: http://www.celdf.org/celdf-press-release---first-county-in-us-bans-fracking-and-all-hydrocarbon-extraction---mora-county-nm
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Friday, 3 May 2013
New Mexico to ban oil and gas extraction!
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