Back off. The Chama Watershed belongs to the acequia parciantes, Tribal communities, ranchers, and rural families who care for and depend on this landscape and its water — not a foreign mining company looking to exploit it for profit.
Statement addressing the mining company.
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If we do see the level, the scale of natural gas generation that some people are proposing, it will markedly increase the cost of gas for other uses.
I think today, unfortunately, we are not finding that balance. We are not moving forward on legislation from many of my colleagues that would conserve public lands in their states in the way that their communities would like to see.
We will not allow a foreign mining company to threaten the Chama Watershed with radioactive uranium waste. That is unacceptable.
We're rolling this out obviously late in the game, and I'm a big believer in get what you can done in any given Congress.
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