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Joint Memorial Recognizing NM Energy Role Moves On In Senate

Senate Joint Memorial 33 unanimously passed the New Mexico Senate Rules Committee, (8 to 0), on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

Sponsored by Senator Carlos Cisneros (D) District 6, and co-sponsored by Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino (D) District 12, the memorial now moves on to the Senate Conservation Committee. It is expected to be heard in that committee during the week of March 2.

OUTLINE OF MEMORIAL:

•        Identifies New Mexico’s strong comparative advantages in resources and science & technology facilities and expertise to lead a national economic recovery effort by focusing on the primary energy sources in the  renewable energy sector (solar-thermal  and geo-thermal) and primary energy storage and delivery media: supercapacitors and advanced biofuels, respectively.

•        Instructs the NM National Congressional delegation to ask for $21 billion in federal economic recovery money, for additional funding for both national  laboratories (Sandia & Los Alamos) and for the craeation of a National Renewable Energy Administration (to be formed with a mandate along the lines and logic of NASA) headquarters and research facilities – to be located in Santa Fe.

•        Requests that New Mexico aggressively and competitively seek to attract established manufacturer(s) of small, fuel-efficient, and electric cars, which would in turn bolster and validate funding for next-generation energy storage and distribution  research at our two national  laboratories.

This Memorial draws from the larger context and vision of Program MARIA, (Minds and Resources In Action), a national strategy for renewable energy based economic reconstruction and recovery, developed by Miro Kovacevich , MBA, President of  ViviLux.

“The children and progeny of New Mexico, our nation, and the world will appreciate that we foresaw the reality that energy security IS national security, that energy independence IS national independence. The size and breadth of the economic crisis we are experiencing requires a solution that is calibrated at a minimally required corresponding scale in order to curtail any further political and economic  unraveling. We must believe in science, we must not be afraid to think big and to act together, nor should we have any trepidation in asking our elected public servants to do the same. Truly, time is of  the essence, we cannot vacillate or hesitate.” — Miro Kovacevich

For more information please contact: Matthew Ellis, Vivilux, 505.577.3902 <mailto:matthew@vivilux.net>

ViviLux is a Santa Fe- and Washington, DC-based public advocacy institution specializing in energy equity, ecological economics, policy, and research.

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