New Mexico Governor: “I’d Love to Tell You” that San Juan Generating Station is Closed

December 8, 2020

Sometimes, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham gets caught actually telling the truth, and the results are despicable.

During the Governor’s lovefest with the U.S. Climate Alliance in September, she was asked about her position on electric-generating coal plants. Feeling she was among friends; the Governor dropped this response about the San Juan Generating Station (SJGS) near Farmington:

“I’d love to tell you that the plant is closed. So, that antiquated generating plant, generating station in our Four Corners area is about a year out.”

You can hear the Governor’s comments here.

The closure of SJGS is expected to kill hundreds (if not more) of jobs in the area and will likely cause a huge tax increase due to lost revenue. One school district that serves Native American students is expected to lose as much as 80 percent of its property tax revenue.

And Governor Lujan Grisham would “love” for all of that economic devastation to happen…right now.

The men and women of SJGS and the neighboring mine are working hard to keep New Mexico’s families warm at this very moment, but the Governor would ‘love’ to tell her eco-left friends that the plant was closed.

The energy workers of the Four Corners deserve our gratitude and our support, but all they get from Santa Fe is contempt.