by Joey Keefe | Feb 7, 2025 | News
By Cooper Metts | Albuquerque Business First The New Mexico State Land Office signed an agreement last year that could lead to one of the largest land exchanges in New Mexican history. The land office signed an agreement to initiate an exchange with the Bureau of...
by Joey Keefe | Feb 7, 2025 | News
Oil and gas royalty rates could increase in premium parcels on state trust lands in the Permian Basin, if state legislation passes. SB 23, which cleared its first committee on Thursday, would increase the rates oil and gas producers pay to extract oil from the top...
by Joey Keefe | Feb 7, 2025 | News
By Alaina Mencinger and Margaret O’Hara | Santa Fe New MexicanFebruary 7, 2025 State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard is optimistic her yearslong effort to raise New Mexico’s oil and gas royalty rate on the top tracts of land is finally poised for...
by Joey Keefe | Feb 7, 2025 | News
By Megan Gleason | Albuquerque JournalFebruary 7, 2025 SANTA FE — A committee vote of 5-3 on oil and gas legislation came down to what legislators thought was the right thing for New Mexicans as well as the industry that funds more than a third of the state’s budget....
by Joey Keefe | Dec 12, 2024 | News
By Cathy Cook, Albuquerque JournalDecember 12, 2024 A 3,400-acre section of the Caja del Rio Plateau near Santa Fe will be protected from mining, new transmission lines or major thoroughfares for the next 20 years. State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia...
by Joey Keefe | Dec 11, 2024 | News
By Alaina Mencinger, Santa Fe New MexicanDecember 11, 2024 State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard announced Wednesday she will be halting new leases for mining, large transmission lines and major thoroughfares on a small piece of the Caja del Rio. Garcia...
