List/Grid Author Archives: John Fleck / Journal Staff Writer
Drought Relief Act
University of New Mexico law professor Reed Benson had an interesting op-ed in this morning’s paper arguing for reauthorization of the federal Drought Relief Act: Major droughts, including more intense... Read more »
Is the purposes of nuclear deterrence really to reassure ourselves?
Is the purpose of our nuclear arsenal really to deter our hypothetical enemies, or reassure ourselves? Jeffrey Lewis, of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies: I once sat in... Read more »
DOE wants to send Hanford waste to WIPP
The Department of Energy wants to ship as much as 3.1 million gallons of radioactive waste from its ...
History of Sandia Labs: March 13 talk in Los Alamos
The terrifically interesting Rebecca Ullrich (a nuclear historian who’s helped me with stories in the past) will be speaking next Wednesday (March 13) in Los Alamos: From Z Division to... Read more »
DOE proposes sending Hanford waste to New Mexico
The Department of Energy is proposing sending waste from radioactive waste tanks in Hanford, Wash., to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeast New Mexico. The proposal could send as... Read more »
March New Mexico runoff forecast: no break in the drought
If there is good news in the March New Mexico river runoff forecast, it is that things haven’t gotten any worse. Preliminary numbers sent around to water managers today by... Read more »
A nice summary of the Texas v. New Mexico water lawsuit
Laura Paskus, who writes for the Utton Center at the UNM law school, has written a nice summary (pdf) of the issues at stake in the lawsuit filed last month... Read more »
Battle against the quagga mussel arrives at the Roundhouse
The effort to hold the line against the invasive quagga mussel, scourge of the west’s waterways, has found its way to the New Mexico legislature with House Bill 536. The... Read more »
Drought watch: third driest water year (so far) on record for Albuquerque
The folks at the National Weather Service have updated a striking graphic showing how dry it has been in Albuquerque since Oct. 1 (the “water year”): The brown line is... Read more »
What to do when runoff falls short?
The best thing for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow, according to a new analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is a big spring runoff through central New Mexico, to create spawning habitat for the tiny fish. How big, and what to do when the water is not there, has become the subject of intense closed-door negotiations among the federal agencies trying to manage the arid river.
Determining how much water the silvery minnow needs
Federal officials are deep in negotiation regarding how much water is needed in the Rio Grande to meet the needs of the endangered silvery minnow. As part of that process,... Read more »
Not enough money in the NM legislature to fix the Lower Rio Grande’s drought problems
We know that water shortages on the lower Rio Grande could, depending on how New Mexico tries to solve them, could be a multi-billion dollar problem. But it looks like... Read more »
