Cheney Task Force Spent MONTHS Working With Energy Giants---Environmental Groups Got ONE Meeting

[kpete]

Secret list reveals big firms' role in energy plan / Cheney task force spent months working with industry giants, gave environmental groups one meeting, documents show
July 19, 2007|By Michael Abramowitz, Steven Mufson, Washington Post

At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new national energy policy, and the groups were getting their one chance to be heard.

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A confidential list prepared by the Bush administration shows that Cheney and his aides had already held at least 40 meetings with interest groups, most of them from energy-producing industries. By the time of the meeting with environmental groups, according to a former White House official who provided the list to The Washington Post, the initial draft of the task force was substantially complete and President Bush had been briefed on its progress.

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The list of participants' names and when they met with administration officials provides a clearer picture of the task force's priorities and bolsters previous reports that the review leaned heavily on oil and gas companies and on trade groups -- many of them big contributors to the Bush campaign and the Republican Party. But while it clears up much of the lingering uncertainty about who was granted access to present energy policy views to Cheney's staff, it does not entirely explain why the Bush administration fought so hard to keep it and other as-yet-unreleased internal memos secret.

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Waxman said he was not surprised to see the prevalence of energy industry groups on the list of meetings. "Six years later, we see we lost an opportunity to become less dependent on importing oil, on using fossil fuels, which have been a threat to our national security and the well-being of the planet," he said.

the rest:
http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-07-19/news/17254638_1_cheney-s-office-environmental-groups-constellation-energy-group/2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701987_pf.html

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[90-percent]

2. k&k&r&r

-jim

[L. Coyote]

3. It takes time to divide up the world's oil supply, and only minutes to save the planet

obviously :rofl:

Seriously, if we really wanted to solve some of our masjor problems, they could be solved by sunset on any given day. What is lacking is the will, not the time!

[tanyev]

4. And yet he didn't convene a principals meeting on terrorism until Sept. 4, 2001.

Even though Richard Clarke had been begging him to do so for months.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Before it's all over, those meetings will be connected to the WTC issue.

I think Cheney and his oily bunch overplayed their hand and forced the Taliban to support Al Qaida and bin Laden in their execution of an attack they had been working on for years. One of two things happened.

Cheney either intentionally pushed them too far knowing they would Pearl Harbor us. He expected to use the blood sacrifice to get absolute control over the military to return the response. His big plan, of course, was not just to control Afghanistan, but Iraq too. It was such an EPIC fail we won't find the real truth about this until after his post mortem.

Or, we really did get taken by surprise because the BUSH-CHeney team were playing the ABC (Anything But Clinton) strategy and did not properly replace the National Security Team in time to catch the plan.

[Solly Mack]

6. k/r