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coverage of the climate story.
As Don Schreiber stands in the front yard of his ranch near Farmington, New Mexico, he no longer counts cattle he counts gas wells. And he sees 10.
“That’s just the ones that you can see,” he says. There are more nearby, but they are hidden by trees.
Schreiber’s ranch sits on 5,760 acres in the middle of the San Juan Basin, the smaller of the state’s two oil and gas producing regions. Smaller, but not small. There are more than 22,000 oil and gas wells there, and 122 of those are on his land, all of them pulling up natural gas. There are 30 wells within a mile of his house.
A New Mexico Senate bill that would place a four-year moratorium on new permits for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, passed its first committee Feb. 13 and is now closer to becoming law.
Senate Bill 149 passed the Senate Conservation Committee on a 5-4 vote and was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the further discussion and a second vote.
Sponsored by Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, the bill was intended to halt new fracking operations to allow environmental officials and lawmakers to study its environmental impact.
She introduced similar legislation that died in committee during the 2019 and 2020 legislative sessions.
The fracking process, in which a combination of water, sand and chemicals is pumped underground to break deep shale deposits so crude oil and natural gas can be brought to the surface.