Video: Produced Water Forum

On July 23, NMIPL, Citizens Caring for the Future (CCFF) and Earthworks hosted a virtual conversation on a state proposal to reuse liquid wastewater from the oil and gas industry for irrigation and discharge to rivers.

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Citizens Caring for the Future will use this space to share updates, videos, articles and photographs related to our work in the Permian Basin of southeastern New Mexico.

Video: Panel on Oil, Gas, Ethics and the Green Amendment

On June 30, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light and the organizers of the Green Amendment campaign put together a powerful panel that linked ethical and justice concerns of oil and gas extraction to efforts to promote a green amendment in the constitution of every state as well as our federal Constitution. 



Panel Discussion moderated by Sister Joan Brown, executive director of New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light. The Panelists included:

Nathalie Eddy: Earthworks

Rev. Nick King, Mennonite Pastor and leadership team of Citizens Caring for the Future (organization of frintline communities in the Permian Oil and Gas region, Carlsbad, NM

Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, author, lecturer living in Santa Fe and advisor to NM IPL

Terry Sloan, Dine (Navajo) and Hopi from Tuba City, Arizona born in Shiprock, Director, Southwest Native Culture, lives in Albuquerque and is board member of NM IPL

Maya Von Rossum: Green Amendement for the Generations