New Mexico Climate Justice Advocates Denounce Lujan Grisham’s Strategic Water Supply
O’GAH P’OGEH (SANTA FE, NM) “The governor is continuing to push a hydrogen agenda that the broader environmental community has opposed and wasting $500 million dollars for a proposal that pushes us away from investments in real climate and water resiliency solutions that are safe,” said Julia Bernal, the Executive Director of Pueblo Action Alliance. “The New Mexico No False Solutions Coalition has made several attempts to hold conversations with Governor Lujan-Grisham about our concerns relating to false solutions like hydrogen energy production that use fossil fuels and wastewater and exacerbate the climate crisis.” 
False Solutions
Fact Sheet
Here is a helpful breakdown of terms that will be used not only in New Mexico’s 2022 Legislative Session, but in any potential policy or state/federal implementations around climate mitigation. This type of education helps with understanding what false solutions are and what to look out for when we are continuing to hold our decision makers accountable to any supposed “climate leadership”. Pueblo Action Alliance has been working tirelessly to develop more and more reading material that will be better understood by our communities that don’t always get to be a part of these conversations and spaces. This is for the people on-the-ground that are bearing the brunt of climate change and climate inaction from our decision makers in our region.
Press Release:
New Mexico Groups
Sound Alarm
on
Governor’s
Hydrogen Proposal
Santa Fe, NM — In response to New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s solicitation of comments on her proposal to make the state a “hub” for hydrogen production, a broad swath of Indigenous, environmental, social justice and public health advocates are voicing their opposition to any proposal that would prop up a hydrogen economy as a dangerous distraction to climate solution and a scam to continue a reliance on state revenue from fossil fuel fracking…
Tell NM Governor MLG:
“NO MORE FALSE SOLUTIONS”
NM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has been praised for being a climate leader and even attended the United Nations COP26. However, the governor’s climate actions in New Mexico show that she is actually leading New Mexico into climate disaster.
MLG is promising false climate solutions such as net-zero and is proposing a “Hydrogen Hub Act,” in January 2022, which would use hydrogen as a form of energy production. Yet, in a recent article by The Santa Fe New Mexican, it was cited that the process to create hydrogen produces 20 times more carbon emissions than burning natural gas or coal.
Only giant oil companies like Shell, Exxonmobil, BP, Chevron benefit from these types of false solutions!
Real climate solutions…
…mean keeping carbon in the ground, having zero (NOT net-zero) carbon emissions, and following the lead of Indigenous peoples in protecting our air, lands, waters and bodies.
#nofalsesolutions #keepintheground #peoplevsfossilfuels #nonewleases #FrackOffGreaterChaco #landback #waterback
“Remember, we only have one home. We only have one earth mother. Listen to the Indigenous Nations. We’ve been around for thousands of years.”
- Edward Wemytewa (Zuni, Co-Chair of the PAA Board of Directors)
Video from Indigenous Environmental Network
Carbon Pricing and carbon markets are a false solution to climate chaos and allow big polluters to keep polluting.
Graphic notes provided by Joe Stacey (Hopi/Laguna).
Carbon Pricing
Hear more about how Carbon Pricing works with examples both locally and around the globe.
“All eyes are on New Mexico which has been a guinea pig for climate legislation that promotes false solutions. With our mass landscapes and underrepresented communities, New Mexico is definitely a target for global transnational corporations to initiate carbon pricing, carbon credit programs, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and other carbon capture projects that will have colossal negative impacts.
We, frontline and grassroots communities, should have the full participation and understanding for the formation of climate policies that include the water, land and air sectors. Most importantly, we must mobilize to ensure protections for our cultural integrity.”
-Julia Bernal
Hoodwinked
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse is a zine created to debunk false narratives around green washed solutions for climate mitigation. Look through this zine to understand terms that are used to make carbon markets sound like green solutions but are ultimately based in global capital.
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