Cheney's Chernobyl

[doublethink]

Shan Wells

Political cartoonist, "Durango Telegraph." shanwells.com/cartoon
Posted: May 27, 2010 10:53 AM






Much has been said about the need to simply get the gulf oil geyser capped, and not to worry right now about whose fault it is, or was. I notice most of this seemingly noble sentiment is coming from those whose fault it might be, including the Obama Administration.

But there is one person at whose feet can be laid the entire disaster, and probably to the surprise of no one paying any attention at all since the year G.W. Bush was appointed, that person would be Dick Cheney.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and son of the assassinated Senator, traced a clear path of oily footprints straight to the former "co-president" in a post on May 5th:

...between January and March of 2001, incoming Vice President Dick Cheney conducted secret meetings with over 100 oil industry officials allowing them to draft a wish list of industry demands to be implemented by the oil friendly administration. Cheney also used that time to re-staff the Minerals Management Service with oil industry toadies including a cabal of his Wyoming carbon cronies. In 2003, newly reconstituted Minerals Management Service genuflected to the oil cartel by recommending the removal of the proposed requirement for acoustic switches. The Minerals Management Service's 2003 study concluded that "acoustic systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly."

rest here ..... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shan-wells/cheneys-chernobyl_b_591414.html