By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
Consumer advocacy groups, environmentalists and the New Mexico attorney general s office are raising concerns about a proposed multibillion-dollar merger of the state s largest electric utility with a U.S. subsidiary of global energy giant Iberdrola.
The groups have filed testimony with state regulators ahead of hearings that begin next month.
It will be up to the Public Regulation Commission to determine if the merger provides meaningful benefits to Public Service Co. of New Mexico customers and if it would be in the public interest.
Some groups say PNM shareholders will benefit from the proposed transaction and that it could end up stifling competition for renewable energy development in New Mexico.
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Albuquerque Police Department bomb squad members investigate reports of an explosion at the Rio Volcan Apartments on Ladera near Unser NW on Sunday. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A man was critically injured in an explosion that happened while he was using butane to “manufacture narcotics” at a Northwest Albuquerque apartment complex on Sunday evening, according to police.
Gilbert Gallegos, a police spokesman, said the Albuquerque Police Department’s Bomb Unit responded to the Rio Volcan Apartments on Ladera near Unser NW at around 6 p.m. Sunday.
Gallegos said it appears the man set off an explosion while using butane as part of a process to make marijuana more potent.
By - Associated Press - Monday, April 19, 2021
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Authorities say a man accused of manufacturing drugs in an Albuquerque apartment was injured in an explosion.
Albuquerque police say the suspect was transferred to a burn unit in Texas on Sunday with critical injuries.
Police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos Jr. said reports of an explosion and unexploded pipe bomb at the Rio Volcan Apartments came in Sunday evening.
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