This is the stunning, unique and precious Rio Chama Watershed, New Mexico

Rio Arriba Concerned Citizens

September 17, 2026

ACTION ALERT! Can you take a moment to fight for fellow New Mexicans who also have a uranium mine project bearing down upon them? The Forest Service just opened a 30-day comment period for the Roca Honda project - a full-scale underground uranium mine project northwest of Grants planned by a Canadian mining company. Sound familiar?

The article w/details: morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-pushes

The project has NOT been approved. The Cibola National Forest Supervisor has to decide yes or no, the EPA has to decide if they will allow “treated” mine water to be discharged (into the Rio San Jose!), and the BLM has to decide if they will allow a pipeline to cross BLM land, as well as other NM state permits approved.

PUBLIC OUTCRY is the best defense!

This link is all set-up to make commenting easy. Remember putting comments into your own words is crucial! morethanjustparks.com/public-lands-action-network/6345

From More Than Just Parks – when commenting:
“Tell them to look hard at what pumping millions of gallons of groundwater every day would do to wells, springs and aquifers. Tell them to examine radon exposure. Tell them to account for the uranium contamination already sitting across this landscape. Tell them you want to know exactly which protections for water, tribes and cultural resources would have to be waived or changed to make this mine fit. And tell them whether you think another uranium mine belongs here at all.”

Key alarming points made in the article:
…They will sink two uranium mine shafts deep into the Cibola National Forest

…The company’s modeling estimates on average 6.8 million gallons of groundwater every day, some years reaching roughly 8.5 million gallons a day.

…They will vent radioactive radon from the mine, then haul the ore roughly 290 miles across the Southwest to a processing mill in Utah.

…They want to “disturb” about 87 acres for groundwater wells, ventilation shafts, pipelines, drilling, power lines and roads. Another 279 acres of state and private land would be torn up for the mine shafts, waste rock, ore storage, ponds, roads and a water-treatment plant.

…The Forest Service itself says the mine could expose the public to radioactive radon gas vented from the mine shafts.

…Once that water comes out of the ground, the plan is to treat it, pipe it away from the mine and DUMP IT INTO THE RIO SAN JOSE NEAR MILAN, NEW MEXICO.

…the project is expected to last TWENTY-ONE years!

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Rio Arriba Concerned Citizens

September 14, 2026

AI and Data Centers are hot topics in the news right now. Residents in southern New Mexico have reported the Project Jupiter to Erin Brockovich's national data center development project - charting the explosion of data centers all over the country. We know that uranium mining sits at the base of the revived nuclear energy build-out. A vast amount of energy will be needed to fuel data centers and AI, and nuclear is being pushed by some New Mexico lawmakers and corporations as the solution. The aerial view of the massive size of Project Jupiter already underway - is shocking.

We will continue to fight to reign in such projects, which stand to threaten precious New Mexico water and land resources. We will push our legislators to put bills in place to stop the "extraction for exploitation" movement underway in our state. Many thanks to the New Mexico Environmental Law Center for representing the citizens of Doña Ana County. We stand with you!

NO Uranium "Exploration" near Canjilon! Protect the Chama Watershed and Carson National Forest from Gamma Resources, Ltd! ... See MoreSee Less