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In an abrupt reversal, the New Mexico Environment Department hearing examiner overseeing air quality permit applications for the Project Jupiter data center decided that critical questions involving a proposed natural gas pipeline will be resolved in forthcoming hearings instead of an expedited briefing he ordered last week.

On Aug. 5, hearing examiner Max Shepherd ordered Yucca Growth Infrastructure to respond to seeking dismissal of the permit application. The motion argued that the application was not ready for consideration because Yucca Growth had not secured permission to build the necessary pipeline across half a mile of state trust land.

State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard twice denied a request by Texas-based company Energy Transfer for a business lease and rights-of-way on state land for the pipeline.

Shepherd ordered Yucca Growth to file its response to a list of questions by Tuesday. But on Monday, Shepherd issued stating he was withdrawing that request 鈥渁fter due consideration,鈥� ordering that no response should be filed and that the question would be addressed at the public hearing on the application opening Sept. 14.

Shepherd wrote that New Energy Economy had not considered the possibility that the pipeline could be rerouted or that an alternative method of delivery could be established.

New Energy Economy promptly filed a motion that reversal. Mariel Nanasi, the group鈥檚 executive director and senior attorney, stated in a news release that Shepherd had inverted the legal burden of proof for a hearing to proceed.

鈥淭he Applicant 鈥� not the public 鈥� is required to prove that its permit application is legally viable,鈥� Nanasi said. 鈥淚f Yucca Growth Infrastructure has another lawful way to deliver approximately 400 million cubic feet of natural gas every day, it should simply identify it. If it doesn鈥檛, the law requires dismissal of the application. That threshold question should be answered before anyone spends enormous public and private resources preparing for a weeks-long hearing.鈥�

Neither Shepherd nor the Environment Department responded to queries from the Journal.

At a July 28 meeting of the Do帽a Ana County Commission, Oracle Vice President Mahesh Thiagarajan said securing approval and air permits for the natural gas pipeline was critical for the project, which began construction in Santa Teresa last September.

If the permit were denied, Thiagarajan suggested the project could seek to buy power from El Paso Electric, and if that wasn鈥檛 an option, he said, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know how to power the data center.鈥� 

Algernon 顿鈥橝尘尘补蝉蝉补 is the Journal鈥檚 southern New Mexico correspondent. He can be reached at adammassa@abqjournal.com.