Northern areas hit power line hardest

I’m one of the board members for the Stop Hunt Power organization. I read the Journal article on Hunt Power dropping its plans to build that atrocious and desecrating transmission line.

A few things in the article bothered me. Yes, our organization was based out of Jacona, but most of the work and effort and unification against Hunt came from the Española Valley and Rio Arriba County communities. Give credit where it’s due.

It was the combination of our northern communities coming together to unite our voices with a resounding NO! at the scoping meetings. It was Rio Arriba County, city of Española, Española Public Schools, Jemez Electric Co., and the communities of La Mesilla and Hernandez that came out in force and declared resolutions against Hunt which gave it a major blow.

Santa Fe County was indecisive and hardly put any effort toward standing behind their people and constituents, and they kept beating around the bush — probably blindly tempted by corrupt money and bribery?

But, yes, it was Española and Rio Arriba that definitely generated the most powerful opposition. Jacona was just the headquarters where we had our meetings.

I’m not trying to discredit the other members of the group. We all worked hard together, but the powerful opposition from the people, and local governments and schools came from Rio Arriba County and Española.

And I might add that while pueblo tribal councils secretly planned with Hunt Power, the tribal members and people were against it. I worked with the tribal members in this sticky situation. KEITH KING LA MESILLA