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WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO

WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO. WESTAR Fall Business Meeting 2009. Coal Fired Power Plant Emissions Inventory. Oil and Gas in New Mexico . NM is 4 th in oil reserves, 2 nd in gas reserves in the US. 6% of US Natural Gas production. California’s largest source of natural gas.

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WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO

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  1. WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO WESTAR Fall Business Meeting 2009

  2. Coal Fired Power Plant Emissions Inventory

  3. Oil and Gas in New Mexico • NM is 4th in oil reserves, 2nd in gas reserves in the US. • 6% of US Natural Gas production. • California’s largest source of natural gas. • Largest source of revenue to state after gross receipts tax. • Funds over 90% of school capital investment.

  4. Four Corners • 19,000 existing Oil and Gas Wells • 12,000 projected for next 20 years • Aggregation of O&G sources • Many small unregulated sources • Multiple Operators • Changing Field Conditions

  5. Dust • ¾ of NM roadways are unpaved

  6. Fire

  7. Federal Facilities

  8. Mercury

  9. Agriculture

  10. Questions?

  11. New Mexico Air Quality Initiatives • Smoke Management Regulations • SJGS Consent Decree • SO2 reductions-SJGS and gas plants • NOx and VOC inventories • Backstop cap and trade for SO2 • Clean Cars regulation • Four Corners Air Quality Task Force • Border Air Quality • Statutory Changes addressing ozone

  12. Permitting Challenges in Four Corners • 19,000 existing Oil and Gas Wells • 12,000 projected for next 20 years • Aggregation of O&G sources • Many small unregulated sources • Multiple Operators • Changing Field Conditions

  13. Class I Areas in the Four Corners Utah Colorado Arizona New Mexico

  14. 4-Corners Air Quality Task Force • Stakeholder Process • Hundreds of participants from industry, federal, state, local and tribal governments, citizens, environmental groups • Work Groups: Power Plants, Oil and Gas, Other Sources, Monitoring, Cumulative Effects • Quarterly meetings with Work Group conference calls to review options and accomplish work • Final report with mitigation options--Dec. 2007 • Continued meetings to review modeling, plan/prioritize and discuss regional air quality

  15. Climate Change in New Mexico • Drier conditions/more intense rainfall may result in more dust • Warmer conditions may increase ozone concentrations and ammonia • Controlling criteria pollutant emissions has co-benefit in some cases of reducing ghg emissions

  16. New Mexico Needs for Regional Analysis • Transport of pollutants into the state affects our air quality ozone mercury • Advantages to pooling of western state resources for western analyses

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