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New Mexico Oil And Gas Group To Embark On Media Campaign

The New Mexico Oil and Gas Association is hitting back at environmentalists with a new promotional campaign.

The Daily Times in Farmington reports that the organization will debut a 30-second commercial May 1 to spotlight its importance to the state's economy.

The television ad is part of a new "Funding Education, Fueling Our Future" campaign.

Spokesman Wally Drangmeister says the group is spending $250,000 to air the commercial and also publish print ads.

Drangmeister says the campaign is meant to counter environmental groups who recently got the federal Bureau of Land Management to defer the proposed drilling of five Navajo allotment parcels.

Critics say the group should spend advertising dollars on cleaner technology.

The association estimates oil and gas contributed $2.1 billion to the state last year.

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Information from: The Daily Times. 

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