Dear Guardian,

Verde means green in Spanish, but the only thing green about the proposed Verde Transmission Project is the money that’s going to flow to Texas fossil fuel billionaires at our expense.

Send a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management today and tell them to abandon their plans to hand over our public lands for high voltage fossil fuel power lines. Tell them to stop bending over backward for billionaires.

The 33-mile long Verde Transmission Line would consume 150 acres of public lands in the Rio Grande Valley north of Santa Fe, cross three Pueblos, and even cross privately owned and state lands. The project is being railroaded through by Hunt Power, owned by the billionaire fossil fuel Hunt family dynasty in Texas.

The aim of the new high voltage power line? Move coal-fired electricity more quickly out of the Four Corners region to markets beyond New Mexico. 

This isn’t about meeting any public need and it’s certainly not about clean energy. This is about building infrastructure to sustain fossil fuel electricity and generate profits for billionaires on the open market.

Send a letter today and tell the Bureau of Land Management to reject Hunt Power’s demands and put Americans and our public lands first.

Our federal government should not be subsidizing more corporate fossil fuel infrastructure. If built, the high voltage power line would impose a roadblock to the development of distributed renewable energy and severely undermine local energy independence.

What’s more, our federal government should be defending our public lands in New Mexico, not condemning them to destruction.

Let’s expose this “Verde” sham. Tell the Bureau of Land Management that clean energy and our public lands come first.

For the wild,

 

Jeremy Nichols
Climate and Energy Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
jnichols@wildearthguardians.org

 

P.S.  Check out the map showing where the proposed Verde power line would be built, right along the Rio Grande north of Santa Fe.

P.P.S.  Fossil fuel development is taking a tremendous toll in the Greater Chaco Region of New Mexico. If you haven’t yet spoken out to turn the tide on fracking, do so today, click here!

photo credit: Rio Grande White Rock Overlook—Andreas F. Borchert