Oct 14th express your outrage with the rigged WATR vote

👉Join us Tuesday October 14th 9am room 314 at the Roundhouse, Santa Fe to express your outrage at the rigged vote in favor of WATR’s petition for oil and gas waste discharge.

@newenergyeconomynm took legal action by filing a motion with the Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) seeking to:

👉disqualify seven commissioners,

👉vacate the Commission’s July 8 order setting a hearing on the WATR Alliance petition to allow discharge of fracking waste, and restore the public’s right to an impartial, science-based process.

The motion documents the previously reported internal emails showing that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office and Environment Secretary James Kenney met with other department heads before July 7th and instructed Commissioners to support the oil and gas industry’s produced-water petition before the public meeting.

This coordination violates state law, constitutional due process, and the Commission’s own rules requiring impartiality.

The Water Quality Control Commission Hearing proceedings are supposed to be fair and impartial, transparent, with decisions made on the scientific merits and according to agency rules.

NOT backroom deals where the Governor’s executive branch conspires with agency heads to rig agency decision-making for campaign contributors.