<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">One of the lessons we’ve learned from living in NM over 40 years is be suspicious of any economic development proposal from either oil and gas or the national labs. Here we have a technology supported by both. Sadly our present governor is another in a string of governors relying on the labs for guidence.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ed<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2022, at 5:53 PM, Merle Lefkoff <<a href="mailto:merlelefkoff@gmail.com" class="">merlelefkoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I need assurance from somebody--anybody--that this is an incredibly bad idea from a governor who drank some fatally spiked Kool-Aid.<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""> </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><h1 style="margin-top:0in" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;color:windowtext" class="">International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory</span></b></h1></div><br class=""><br class="">
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"PT Serif",serif;color:#212529" class="">“This project puts New Mexico and Universal Hydrogen at the center of the global effort to decarbonize transportation and aviation
in particular,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “Hydrogen, solar, wind and alternative energy are job-rich industries and New Mexico’s partnerships with these companies are part of a forward-thinking model to create a robust and diversified economy, while
being a part of the solution when it comes to a changing climate.”<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p>
<h1 style="margin-top:0in" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:"PT Serif",serif;text-transform:uppercase" class="">BY <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/author/krobinson-avila" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color:#0099bd" class="">KEVIN ROBINSON-AVILA / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER</span></a></span></b><br class=""></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"PT Serif",serif" class="">
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UPDATED: THURSDAY, MARCH 10TH, 2022 AT 2:52PM<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"PT Serif",serif" class=""><a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/2478078/international-firm-to-invest-254m-in-abq-hydrogen-factory.html?utm_source=single-post-notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=International%20firm%20to%20invest%20$254M%20in%20ABQ%20hydrogen%20factory&utm_edition=202203102152" target="_blank" class=""><span style="" class=""> </span></a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"PT Serif",serif;color:#212529" class="">Universal Hydrogen — an international company with modular hydrogen storage technology for planes, ground transportation and heavy
manufacturing — will invest $254 million in a new manufacturing and distribution center at the Albuquerque International Sunport, potentially employing up to 500 people, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday afternoon.</span><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:"PT Serif",serif" class="">The state will contribute $10 million in <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span>Local Economic Development Act funding for the project, which could have a $700 million
economic impact here over the next 10 years, according to the Governor’s Office, which held a news conference Thursday at Hotel Albuquerque in Old Town to announce the project.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p>
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