According to the New Mexico Environmental Law Center representing the neighborhood, the City of Albuquerque’s Environmental Health Department just before Thanksgiving made what seems to me to be an utterly insensitive, monstrous assault on the public health of Mountain View. It issued a permit for a “hot mix asphalt batch plant” to be built near the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge at the southern end of Mountain View in agricultural land in unincorporated Bernalillo County. It’s a cruel and really savage attack on environmental justice in the area.
If the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board doesn’t rescind the permit, a crucially important local battle in the Zero War will be lost, a National Wildlife Refuge will be despoiled, and residents of Mountain View will suffer even more outlandish and egregious acts of environmental injustice.