Reply #5: Pissed off Halliburton . . . [View All]

[TeeYiYi]

"Malone says landowners were told that debris had to be moved out to the street before it could be hauled away." "How is a landowner who just lost everything going to pay $15,000 or $20,000 to have a lot cleared? I mean, there were two or three houses on top of one another in some places."

This put Malone in the middle of territorial disputes with private contractors.

"We had one guy come up to us and tell us to go to another neighborhood and that these people could afford to pay," Malone says. "I told him, 'Why should they pay? They just lost everything.' "

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