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Fix Our Forests Act support

With red flag warnings, PNM has disabled automatic reclosers on transmission lines, raising outage risk. Staff also explained the May 8 townwide outage stemmed from unprogrammed relay settings, with a fix expected within two weeks.

2 mentions (1 this month)Last discussed Oct 27, 2026

HighEnvironment

Natural gas phase-out and electric future

The county has a goal to phase out natural gas (10% reduction by 2030) but usage hasn't budged in 25 years. Councilor Havemann urged nudging the development code toward all-electric new construction; Foxdale Flats power comes online next spring and the carbon-neutral-by-2040 goal has seen little progress.

4 mentions (2 this month)Last discussed Oct 21, 2026