Oil well fracking has been around for sixty years. It is a technique used to improve extraction rates. In recent years as the anti-fossil fuel movement has taken on a religious like approach groups have cropped up everywhere to oppose the practice. Below is a press release for an organization that calls itself: Food and Water Watch. This organization is targeting Governor Susana Martinez: "New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has made boosting opportunities for small businesses in the state a priority, but several groups dealing with environmental and health care issues say those efforts are falling short. One of the groups crying "foul" over the small business initiatives is Food and Water Watch. State organizer Eleanor Bravo says one of Martinez's early actions upon taking office was to form the "Small Business Friendly Task Force." Bravo says small is not what this task force is about. Well, it is neither small, nor business-friendly. It is made up of big lobbyist corporations." These types of organizations press releases find their way into our news feeds on the outside columns of this site. They are not actually news pieces. Instead they are opinions disguised as news.
Environmentalists Use Stealth Attacks on Martinez Via Press Releases by "Independent" News Agencies
Posted by
Jim Spence
on Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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New Mexico News Analysis
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