New Mexico Watchdog - An environmental group that wants PNM to stop using coal to generate electricity is using deceptive and misleading images in its billboard campaign. New Energy Economy on July 2, 2012, announced an advertising campaign to pressure PNM to switch completely to solar power. Its campaign, entitled “Coal Hurts,” shows a child sucking air through a respirator against a background of heavy smoke pouring from a cluster of smokestacks. But the photo has nothing to do with PNM’s power plant. And though the child in the photo has asthma, NEE won’t say if the child’s problem was in any way caused by PNM’s power plant. New Energy Economy ‘s campaign targets PNM’s San Juan Generating Plant, But NEE admits that the photograph of heavy pollution pouring from four smokestacks is not of PNM’s plant. We obtained a photograph of the San Juan plant from PNM. The real PNM San Juan Generating plant is shown here. We apologize that the file is too big to reproduce on this page. NEE will not tell us where and when the photograph it used in its billboards was taken. It will not reveal if the photograph was of a coal-fired electric generating plant or another type of industrial facility, or if the plant shown in its billboards is even still in operation. Read More News New Mexico
New Energy Economy Enviro Group Misleads Public in Campaign Against PNM
New Mexico Watchdog - An environmental group that wants PNM to stop using coal to generate electricity is using deceptive and misleading images in its billboard campaign. New Energy Economy on July 2, 2012, announced an advertising campaign to pressure PNM to switch completely to solar power. Its campaign, entitled “Coal Hurts,” shows a child sucking air through a respirator against a background of heavy smoke pouring from a cluster of smokestacks. But the photo has nothing to do with PNM’s power plant. And though the child in the photo has asthma, NEE won’t say if the child’s problem was in any way caused by PNM’s power plant. New Energy Economy ‘s campaign targets PNM’s San Juan Generating Plant, But NEE admits that the photograph of heavy pollution pouring from four smokestacks is not of PNM’s plant. We obtained a photograph of the San Juan plant from PNM. The real PNM San Juan Generating plant is shown here. We apologize that the file is too big to reproduce on this page. NEE will not tell us where and when the photograph it used in its billboards was taken. It will not reveal if the photograph was of a coal-fired electric generating plant or another type of industrial facility, or if the plant shown in its billboards is even still in operation. Read More News New Mexico
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