Tell Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham: No Dumping Frack Water in New Mexico

New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham wants to dump toxic oil and gas industry wastewater into streams, drinking waters, and on crops.

We need your help to stop this.

The Governor believes dumping toxic frack water would be “good for New Mexico.” This water is too toxic to treat. Dumping it would only destroy the state’s scarce waters that are already stressed by the climate crisis.

We need real climate solutions. Tell Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to help New Mexico transition from oil and gas, not open the door for toxic frack water dumping.

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New Mexico Environmental Department
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

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I request you abandon your plans for any rulemaking that would authorize the dumping of oil and gas industry wastewater into New Mexico's streams, drinking water supplies, and on crops. 
 
Oil and gas industry waste, known as "produced water," is too toxic to treat. Current water quality laws and regulations require this waste to be disposed in underground injection wells and do not allow discharge to the surface. There is absolutely no scientific information or studies indicating the oil and gas industry's waste has become any less toxic or untreatable. 
 
The climate crisis is already ravaging New Mexico and projections indicate the state faces increasing water shortages and more intense droughts. The last thing New Mexico should be contemplating is allowing the oil and gas industry to poison the state's dwindling, irreplaceable water supplies. 
 
Instead of allowing the fracking industry to dump their waste on New Mexico, please redirect your agencies to develop and implement aggressive and effective water conservation and watershed resilience strategies to meet our climate challenges.

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