Entries Tagged as 'oil and gas'

The West, Texas Explosion: A Horrific Lesson on Lax Regulatory Oversight

April 29th, 2013 · No Comments · role of government, Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier At the risk of sounding insensitive about the bombings in Boston (which would not be true), I could not help but compare, from the outset, how that event was covered by both national media and the Albuquerque Journal to the way the West, Texas fertilizer explosion was played. Because the former was [...]

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Journal, Again, Casts a Shadow Over Solar Energy

December 31st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier Just before the winter holidays, the Albuquerque Journal ran a guest column about solar energy development that should have instilled in New Mexico readers pride in the state’s role in that history. Instead, the reader was misled by the Journal to read the piece with an erroneous mind-set. That is, each enlightening [...]

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AP Analysis Further Deflates Oil, Gas Industry Complaints

June 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier Perhaps it will appear in the Albuquerque Journal at some point, but at this point the state’s leading daily has been beat to the punch by the Las Cruces Sun-News in running results of an Associated Press analysis that disputes GOP claims that the oil and gas industry has fared worse under [...]

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Climate Change and the Unabomber

May 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier Last month’s Albuquerque Journal publication of the column, “Global Warming Is Just  Propaganda,” is still generating reader response, with nearly a full page of letters in Tuesday’s (May 15) Journal commenting both on that column (as we did ) and on the published rebuttal by scientist Mark Boslough . In between, a [...]

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Widespread Misunderstanding: Round Two

March 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier As he did with his Senate clarifications on rising gas prices, U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman last week found he needed to set the record straight on another energy misunderstanding, this time related to a $50 light bulb. Bingaman’s latest clarification took the form of a guest column that appeared in the Albuquerque [...]

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From Downton Abbey to Fracking

February 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier For those who relished the final installment of Downton Abbey Sunday night, here’s a way to extend the pleasure a bit while still doing your homework on today’s energy questions: Read “What Downton Abbey Can Teach Us About the Future of Energy.” The story appears in StateImpact, a Web site out of [...]

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Journal Acknowledges a Crack in the Keystone Jobs Argument

February 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier To follow up on the Jan. 20  ABQJournalWatch post about President Obama’s Keystone XL pipeline decision: The Albuquerque Journal (as predicted), criticized the president for rejecting the pipeline permit.  But its Jan. 21 editorial included in its argument a mitigating line that hadn’t appeared in any of its previous pro-pipeline positions. That [...]

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Predictable in Favoring the Pipeline

January 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier It’s pretty safe to predict that the Albuquerque Journal will respond to President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline with editorial criticism. The editorial did not run this morning (Jan. 20). Perhaps it will be saved for Sunday — the Journal’s highest circulation day — because it seems opining in favor of [...]

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Greasing and Oiling the Journal Narrative

November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier I’d like to borrow a phrase aptly coined by my colleague, Arthur Alpert, when he wrote that the Journal has engaged in a “narrative” against solar energy (through its overkill running of Solyndra stories, casting a “guilt by association” pall on otherwise noncontroversial solar stories that pop up on business and news [...]

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Ever the Booster, Journal Strains to Support Drilling Offshore

July 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

By Denise Tessier Leave it to the Journal to conclude that the answer to risky off-shore oil drilling is: Open up more areas to drilling. That’s just what the morning daily did with “Loosen U.S. Offshore Energy Exploration,” its disjointed July 19 editorial commenting on the Sunday Dimension piece from the McClatchy Newspapers, which had run [...]

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