By Denise Tessier During years of constant claims by conservatives – parroted by media like the Albuquerque Journal – the name “Solyndra” became shorthand for a fool’s errand, both in terms of the promise of green alternative energy and the Obama administration’s encouragement of it. So, now that the federal loan program behind Solyndra has […]
Entries Tagged as 'solar energy'
Not Much Fanfare Now That Solyndra Loan Program Promise Is Fulfilled
January 3rd, 2015 · No Comments · energy policy, environment, journalism, Uncategorized
Tags:Abengoa·ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Campaign for America's Future·Denise Tessier·green energy loans·Scientific American·solar energy·Solyndra·Tesla·The Associated Press
Not Newsworthy at The Journal: Climate Change Protests, Departure of Google and Facebook from ALEC
September 24th, 2014 · 1 Comment · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Arthur Alpert Across the globe, demonstrators marched and chanted and some did civil disobedience to wake the rest of us to the ill effects of climate change. That was Sunday, Sept. 21. The New York Times’ story the next day, prominently displayed, was headlined “Taking a Call for Climate Change to the Streets”. The […]
Tags:ALEC·alternative energy·American Legislative Exchange Council·Amy Goodman·Arthur Alpert·climate change·Dominc Rushe·Emily Atkin·Eugene Robinson·New York Times·oil and gas industry·solar energy·The Guardian·Think Progress·Washington Post
Playing the Koch Brothers’ Game
June 6th, 2014 · No Comments · energy policy, journalism, regulation, role of government, tax policy
By Arthur Alpert Egads, I haven’t posted here for a month. It wasn’t a vacation. I was learning lines for a role in “Jerome Bixby’s Man from Earth” (at the Adobe through Sunday, June 8) when a terrible upper respiratory bug knocked me down. I’ve muddled through but couldn’t find the energy to write. Now […]
Tags:Arthur Alpert·Concerned Veterans of America·Daniel Schuman·Kathleen Parker·Koch brothers·Matea Gold·solar energy·Sons of Wichita·TC4·Tom Philpott
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 […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·ABQJournalWatch.com·Albuquerque Journal·Architecture 2030·Denise Tessier·Don Paxton·Ed Mazria·Frank Bridgers·Janet Bridgers·Mark Chalom·New Mexico Solar Energy Association·oil and gas·solar energy·solar tax credits·Steve Baer
The Business of Boosting Fracking
December 4th, 2012 · No Comments · energy policy, environment, journalism
By Denise Tessier People can’t live without water. It’s that basic. That’s the lead sentence of an Albuquerque Journal editorial (April 6) about the City of Albuquerque´s water infrastructure. Because it’s an editorial, it’s the official position of the Journal as a paper. (And one could add, it’s a no-brainer.) Yet, the Journal seems to […]
Tags:boosterism·Chaco Canyon·Denise Tessier·drilling·fracking·green fracking·Las Vegas NM·Mancos Shale·oil and gas industry·oil boom·Permian Basin·San Juan Basin·solar energy·water
Setting the Record Straight on Solar
March 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Uncategorized
By Denise Tessier An Albuquerque Journal reader’s letter to the editor March 13, “Something Doesn’t Quite Add Up Here,” challenged information contained in the caption for last week’s Journal photo of the new solar energy array – 1,001 panels that will provide electricity to the Fire Academy, animal shelter and city environmental offices on the […]
Tags:ABQ Journal Watch·Albuquerque Journal·Denise Tessier·Mayor Richard Berry·renewable energy·solar energy
