| 06/16/2013 | More Than 200 Southeastern N.M. Oil And Gas Wells Fail Inspections
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
June 16--Nearly 240 oil and gas wells in southeastern New Mexico that state officials approved for electric hookups last year failed to pass recent after-the-fact electrical safety inspections. |
| 06/17/2013 | Opponents Of Proposed U.S./Mexico Pipeline Cite Erosion Concerns
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
June 17--THREE POINTS -- Rancher Walter Lane points to a boulder-filled gully, 8 feet deep, jutting north from a dirt road through the Altar Valley. |
| 06/15/2013 | Albuquerque Casino Nearly Finished, Preps For July Opening
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
June 15--Compared to the cramped and noisy little grandstand casino it is replacing, the new casino taking shape at the Downs at Albuquerque is the Taj Mahal. |
| 06/13/2013 | Alamogordo Pursuing Desalination Plant
Alamogordo Daily News (NM)
June 13--The Alamogordo City Commission on Tuesday took the first step toward obtaining $1.1 million in state-distributed federal loan money for designing a desalination plant and related infrastructure. |
| 06/01/2013 | Southwest Groups Working On Offshore Wind Turbine Research
Mechanical Engineering
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]But siting and funding labs to study the turbines that produce wind energy is an expensive proposition. |
| 05/27/2013 | New Mexico At The Forefront Of The New Space Age
New York
At dawn one morning last November--just as the edge of Earth comprising Florida spun into the field of light bursting from roughly 93 million miles away--she emerged one last time from the monstrous doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building, twelve stories long but dwarfed. |
| 06/12/2013 | Nevada Gov. Signs Bills To End Coal Power, Begin Arena Renovations
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 12--CARSON CITY -- NV Energy must start shutting down its coal-fired Reid Gardner power plant, and the state is going to issue tax credits to filmmakers who come to Nevada, under bills signed Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval. |
| 06/10/2013 | Las Cruces High School Renovations Evoke Community Emotions
Las Cruces Sun-News (NM)
June 10--LAS CRUCES -- A certain era is coming to an end on El Paseo Road, though perhaps one marked by dim halls and cracking walls. |
| 06/08/2013 | Kinder Morgan Reconfirms $204 million Tucson-Sasabe Pipeline
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
June 08--Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's recent decision to shelve plans for a crude oil pipeline from Texas to California has no effect on the company's plans for a natural gas pipeline from Tucson to the Mexican border through the rural Altar Valley, a company spokesman says. |
| 06/07/2013 | Las Cruces Plans $3 Million Downtown Residential Development
Las Cruces Sun-News (NM)
June 07--LAS CRUCES -- Soon you will see the start of work on a new, $2.78 million downtown apartment complex. |
| 06/07/2013 | Bones Found On N.M. Jobsite "More Than Likely Ancient"
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
June 07--4:10 P.M. -- The skull discovered during a construction project in the East Mountains belongs to a human, but it is likely ancient, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office. |
| 06/07/2013 | Yuma Wins Rezoning Case In U.S. Distrcit Court
Sun (Yuma, AZ)
June 07--For the second time, the U.S. District Court has ruled in favor of the city of Yuma in a long-standing case that followed a Yuma City Council vote in 2008 to deny a rezoning request to allow for higher density in a planned residential development. |
| 06/06/2013 | Former City Of Tucson Workers Sentenced For Using Equipment On Side Jobs
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
June 06--Two former City of Tucson Department of Transportation employees who used city equipment for side jobs were sentenced Thursday to jail and fined. |
| 06/05/2013 | Study: Construction-Related Jobs Dominant In Albuquerque
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
June 05--A federal study comparing Albuquerque wages with the rest of the country is either good or bad news depending on what you do. |
| 02/21/2013 | Tucson Electric Power Completes Solar Plant
Arizona Daily Star
28-acre TEP facility to generate enough power for 850 homes |
| 06/05/2013 | Nevada Supreme Court To Rule On Construction Defects Lawsuit
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 05--Nevada Supreme Court justices will have their say in litigation involving the flawed Harmon Hotel tower, even before the case goes to trial in Clark County District Court. |
| 06/04/2013 | Renewable Energy Projects In Arizona, Nevada Receive U.S. OK
UPI
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has announced approval of three major renewable energy projects in Arizona and Nevada set to power 200,000 homes. |
| 06/04/2013 | Nevada Legislature Approves New College Construction Spending
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 04--More money has been poured into construction for UNLV and the Nevada State College in Clark County by the Legislature that also gave the go-ahead for a study for building a large events center at UNLV. |
| 06/04/2013 | Despite Delays, Work Progresses On Las Vegas Water Project
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 04--Around 4:30 p.m. on June 11, 2012, a team of a dozen workers toiled 600 feet below the surface of Lake Mead on a project to build a third intake to provide water to the Las Vegas Valley. |
| 06/04/2013 | NV Energy Bill Wins Passage, State Will Shift From Coal
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 04--Legislators have officially moved Nevada out of the coal business. |
| 06/03/2013 | Arizona Firm Deconstructing Former GM Site In Mesa
Tribune (Mesa, AZ)
June 03--Recycling in buildings is nothing new to most businesses. |
| 06/03/2013 | Construction Nears End At New Mexico College
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
June 03--Central New Mexico Community College is nearing completion of a $13.5 million project that includes new, state-of-the-art culinary equipment and relocation of the school's bookstore. |
| 06/02/2013 | Nevada Legislator Makes Last-Ditch Attempt To Change Energy Bill
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 02--CARSON CITY --If the state's largest casinos, NV Energy, Nevada's U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, Gov. Brian Sandoval, large labor unions and advocates for the environment were on one side of a legislative issue, and a Republican Assemblyman from Sparks was on the other, which side would prevail? |
| 05/30/2013 | Silver City, N.M., Solar Array On Track To Generate Power In June
Silver City Sun-News (NM)
May 30--SILVER CITY -- Work is progressing at Silver City's six-acre Solar Array at the Wastewater Treatment Facility and the project is on track to be operational in June. |
| 05/29/2013 | Sen. Reid Bashes Nevada Utilities Commission For Blocking Energy Bill
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
May 29--U.S. Sen. Harry Reid lambasted the Nevada Public Utilities Commission this week, accusing the energy regulators of trying to scuttle a bill before the state Legislature that would require NV Energy to stop using coal to produce electricity. |
