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Roger Toll has worked as a writer and photographer in the US, Mexico, India and Europe over five decades.

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Oil and gas industry ‘run amok’ on New Mexico’s highways

20. March 2015

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By Roger Toll

Route 285, which runs near our home south of Eldorado near Santa Fe, is a big part of my life.  Last week, my wife and I looked forward to traveling home on it from its southernmost point, a small Texas town called Sanderson, 20 miles from the Mexican border. We expected a beautiful drive through sparse cattle country. Instead, we found ourselves in a Western version of Mad Max meets Dante’s Inferno meets L.A. freeway at rush hour. The culprit: our oil and gas industry run amok...

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