National electric corridor expansion faces growing opposition

Chaves and other New Mexico counties opposed to the project plan for the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors ( NIETC ) have obtained wider support. Local government officials from New Mexico municipalities concerned about this project went to a NACo (National Association of Counties) conference last month in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the intent of garnering assistance from NACo to persuade federal officials that the concerns of landowners require more adequate consideration. “Representatives from eight New Mexico Counties, directly affected by the planned 5 to 15-mile-wide corridor through their counties, teamed up, planned, presented, and fought to assure that 1,841,000 acres will not be taken by the federal government,” County Manager Bill Williams sa