New Mexico Business Weekly Publishes Story on Manure to Methane Project

In relation to my prevous post, Kevin Robinson-Avila --writer for the New Mexico Business Weekly, wrote an article in the Friday, June 5, 2009 issue entitled:

Passing biogas: R-Qubed project converts cow manure to methane

Avila writes about the $72 million plan by R-Qubed Energy Inc. of El Paso (I am the President) to build one of New Mexico’s first biogas plants, near the towns of Vado and Berino. The plant will convert cow manure from local dairies into methane gas for use at Public Service Co. of New Mexico’s natural gas plants.

The plant also will make fertilizer and compost from manure, and recycle effluent water for re-use on farms. The plant will help dairy operations deal with environmental issues caused by manure piling up on the ground. Manure releases methane, a greenhouse gas, and it endangers water resources through storm runoff so by recycling the manure, the order and fly populations will reduce significantly.



Read more at: http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2009/06/08/story2.html

It takes a village to clean up corruption

On June 17, 2009, David Chowder--writer for The News Paper Tree - El Paso's Online Newspaper, wrote and posted a story about my involvement in the City of El Paso's campaign by federal authorities against public and private corruption. In the article, Chowder asks the question: How will the community address the fact that its public institutions and a segment of its private sector have been compromised by a deeply imbedded system of bribery, conspiracies, tainted bidding and contracts and dirty alliances that the federal corruption investigation may not cure?

Things in the El Paso community continue to happen that cause people to wonder why it’s not more prosperous and more capable. So, it kind of begs that question because we can be doing better. We should be doing better.

Read David Chowder's story at: Getting honest: It takes a village to clean up corruption. It's an interesting prelude to what can be done on a much grander scale.