Bush’s Pick for Energy Secretary Has Polluted Record

[NVMojo]

the coalbed methane gas and natural gas king from Utah!!!

Dec 16 - Bush’s pick for the next Energy Secretary, Sam Bodman, spent fourteen years at the helm of Cabot Corp., a Boston-based chemical company with a spotty environmental record, leaving many conservationists worried about the effects his tenure there may have on the nation’s natural resources.

Bodman, 66, called his appointment the culmination of his life’s work when President Bush made the announcement last week. "I started as a teacher in chemical engineering at MIT, spent seventeen years helping create and manage Fidelity Investments, and then spent fourteen years managing Cabot Corp., a global chemical company. Each of these activities had to do with the financial markets and the impact of energy and technology on those markets," he said.

Refrains of "Sam who?" echoed through the Capitol following the announcement. Currently deputy secretary of the US Treasury, Bodman is a mystery to Washington insiders. Some believe his selection is strategic, virtually assuring Vice President Cheney’s continued grip on the department.

Karen Wayland, legislative director for Natural Resources Defense Council, told Reuters, "I think it’s pretty clear over the last four years that the energy plan the administration is pushing is taking its direction from the Vice President’s office."

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?items=1329&printmode=true

[tom_paine]

1. Like saying Hitler's SS pick was an anti-Semite.

So? We know we are now ruled by Totalitarian Monsters.

[hatrack]

2. Yeah, there's a surprise!

Like he was going to pick Adam Werbach or Robert Kennedy Jr. :eyes:

[Pirate Smile]

3. What did anybody expect? I'm disgustingly not surprised at all.

[Straight Shooter]

4. More important now than ever to contribute to Natural Resources Council

http://www.nrdc.org

This is probably the best organization I have ever donated money to, and now they'll need every penny they can get.

Here's the link to their "green gift giving guide"

http://nrdc.org/cities/living/ggift.asp

[Supersedeas]

5. the chemical leap from the lab to finance to energy-a renaissance

corporatista. He can do it all.

Utilities?
Power grids?
Alternative Fuel Engineering?
Transportation?
Nuclear Power Disposal, Storage and Safety?


Well, maybe not everything...but making big big money for Corporate Pirates of our National Resources is a given.

More Dick Cheaty Super give-aways to come.

[struggle4progress]

6. kick for pillage and plunder

:kick:

[Erika]

7. Corporations running the government =Fascism

It saddens and amazes me that so many Americans voted to let this happen to our country and our children and grandchildren.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. I love the smell of a strip mine in the morning.