New Mexco citizens anxious to put a stop to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to use regulations to destroy the economic viability of a coal-fired electric plant near Farmington will have another chance to speak up. The anti-coal Obama EPA wants to require high-cost emission controls on the San Juan Generating Station. To eliminate "haze" nobody can see. |
| San Juan Generating Station |
It remains an open question whether the emission control equipment PNM will be required to purchase will be mandated by EPA or will be the type approved by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED). Either way ratepayers will bear the costs.
Both sets of equipment will meet federal "visibility" requirements. The state-approved technology would accomplish that goal for a fraction of the cost of EPA's plan saving PNM ratepayers millions of dollars.
The next public input meeting is scheduled for Monday August 20th in Farmington. Citizens unable to attend in person can submit input to NMED by sending an email to Morgan R. Nelson of NMED at Morgan.nelson@state.nm.us. There is little doubt radical envirnomentalists will be at this meeting to push for policies that push electricity rates higher and threaten the closure of the primary generating station that supplies New Mexico with low cost electricity.
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