- Cheney's first act as VP in 2001 was to secretly shape
America's Energy polices for the immediate future and beyond: What Cheney,
the traitor, did then is exactly what the world is trying desperately to
undo now!
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- "Before January 20, 2001: Cheney Gives Broad Access
to Oil, Energy Executives
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- Incoming Vice President Dick Cheney is already working
to formulate the new administration's energy policy, and to do so he is
calling on a variety of CEOs and lobbyists for the oil, gas, and energy
corporations. Authors Lou Dubose and Jake Bernstein will later observe
that Cheney's "visitor log began to look like the American Petroleum
Institute [API]'s membership list. This was no coincidence." In early
January, an oil and gas lobbyist brings a group of industry executives
to the API's Washington offices to put together a wish list for Cheney
and the administration. Shortly after the inauguration, the same lobbyist,
J. Steven Griles, will be named deputy secretary of the interior and assigned
to work with the Cheney energy task force (see May 16, 2001). Griles will
become the conduit for API members to funnel their recommendations directly
to the task force. [DUBOSE AND BERNSTEIN, 2006, PP. 7]
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- Entity Tags: Richard ("Dick") Cheney, American
Petroleum Institute, Lou Dubose, J. Steven Griles, US Department of the
Interior, Jake Bernstein
- Timeline Tags: Bush's Environmental Record
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- After January 20, 2001: Enron Executives Trade on Influence
to Gain Entry to White House
- Two of the first people to meet with the newly inaugurated
President Bush are Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and Enron vice president Robert
Shapiro. Lay and Shapiro are close political allies of Bush and Vice President
Cheney. Lay and his Enron executives were not only the largest campaign
donors for the Bush-Cheney presidential effort, but are Bush's largest
lifetime political backers, having financed Bush's two campaigns for governor
of Texas to the tune of some $775,000. Enron sank $1.2 million into the
various 2000 Republican political campaigns, with the lion's share of those
donations going to the Bush-Cheney campaign. Enron provided more tangible
support than just money; during the contentious December 2000 recount debacle
in Florida, Enron (and Halliburton) provided corporate jets that shuttled
Bush-Cheney lawyers and personnel around Florida and Washington. The early
meetings with Bush are matched by meetings between Cheney, Lay, Shapiro,
and at least four other Enron executives. [DUBOSE AND BERNSTEIN, 2006,
PP. 6-7]
- Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Enron, Richard ("Dick")
Cheney, Kenneth Lay,Robert B. Shapiro
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- Timeline Tags: Bush's Environmental Record
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- January 29, 2001: Bush Announces Formation of Energy
Task Force
- President Bush informs a small group of reporters that
he is forming an "energy task force" to draw up a new national
energy policy. It will be the first major policy initiative of his presidency.
The administration is driven by its concern for "the people who work
for a living who struggle every day to get ahead." The task force
will find ways to meet the rising demand for energy and to avoid the shortfalls
causing major power blackouts in California and other areas (see January
23, 2001). He has chosen Vice President Cheney to chair the task force.
"Can't think of a better man to run it than the vice president,"
he says. He refuses to take questions, turning aside queries with jokes
about the recent Super Bowl. The short press briefing will be virtually
the only time the White House tells reporters anything about Cheney's National
Energy Policy Development Group. [SAVAGE, 2007, PP. 85-86] Deputy press
secretary Scott McClellan will later write that the task force "held
a series of meetings with outside interests whose identities were withheld
from the public. This created an early impression of an administration
prone to secrecy and reinforced the image of the Bush White House as in
thrall to corporate interests." [MCCLELLAN, 2008, PP. 96]
- Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Scott McClellan, Richard
("Dick") Cheney, National Energy Policy Development Group
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- Timeline Tags: Bush's Environmental Record" (1)
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- Everything that is currently at issue in Copenhagen has
come directly from these criminally-secret-dealings that took place in
the White House at those classified meetings during which Cheney secretly-shaped
and directed US energy policy's for the future. To this day Cheney (and
now Obama) have maintained the secrecy over who actually met with the Vice-president
eight years ago. Everything from converting filthy-coal into "clean-coal"
all the way to mountain-top removal and the clear-cutting of rain forests
that led to finalizing the Alberta Tar Sands project, in Canada, which
is "The Most Destructive Project on Earth" and this is the core
project of America's largest supplier of US oil.
- "The Athabasca tar sands, in Alberta, may be the
world's largest oil reserve. Only the surface sands are accessible at the
moment, but if the technology develops a little more, there's potentially
six times more oil there than the whole of Saudi Arabia - enough to last
200 years, say the champions of the project.
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- But, it's not liquid oil, and extracting the crude from
the sand takes vast reserves of water, a quarter of Alberta's fresh water.
This water is so polluted at the end of the process that it is simply left
to stand in huge tailing pools that altogether cover some 50 square kilometers.
It's so toxic that birds landing on the ponds would die. Some places use
propane cannons to scare the ducks away; others just rake the dead birds
off the surface. As the ponds aren't lined, waste water leaks into the
AthabascaRiver, polluting everything downstream - lakes, deltas, and the
Mackenzie River.
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- It also destroys the land. Huge areas of the boreal forest
ecosystem have been felled and the underlying peat bogs cleared away to
expose the sands. At the end of the processing there is nothing but a 'toxic
moonscape' of earthworks, ponds, and 80 foot high piles of pure sulphur.
5,000 hectares have been destroyed already, and David Schindler of the
University of Albertaestimates that in ten years time they will have cleared
an area the size of Florida .
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- The air is not spared either. It takes enormous amounts
of heat to extract the oil, approximately a barrel of gas for every two
of crude. The total emissions of the tar sands project will soon be equivalent
to the whole of Denmark. Acid rain falls all across Alberta and now Saskatchewan
too. In the summer, the tailing ponds release carcinogenic benzene. "If
the wind is from the north-west," writes Aida Edemariam of the nearby
boomtown of Fort McMurray, "you can smell oil on the air: heavy, slightly
sour, unmistakable."
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- All of this makes the tar sands 'the most destructive
project on earth ' (pdf), according to last week's report by Environmental
Defense (2)
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- Throughout the current summit being held in Copenhagen
huge portions of the actual causes for the current crisis such as the several
corporate-theft-policies that currently allow for resource theft and massive
pollution compounded by the spraying of Chemtrails, worldwide, that has
yet to even be mentioned in this 'conference.' Instead what is being proposed
consists of a whole new system of trade-offs that are rife with new opportunities
to both create huge new wealth-transfer income-streams for wealthy polluters,
that will be paid for by the poor of every nation; with virtually no checks
or balances to protect anyone from this business-as-usual hype which is
not meant to alter current polices but is intended to instead intensify;
the very same problems that got the planet into this mess in the first
place. (3)
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- We must find new ways to reign in the privatized-corporate-profiteers
(And maybe begin to revoke some corporate charters) in order to begin to
reshape the business model which unchecked capitalism has used to rule
the world for the last several thousand years-if anything of any real significance
is to ever be achieved.
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- Obamanation and Cheney-Bush before him have all said
that we must ONLY look ahead, and that we cannot look back! This situation
with the current threat to the globe is why they believe in that policy-of-total-denial
so strongly! Consequently the world must "look back" in order
"to Look Forward" and to demand compensation and prosecution
of the traitors that did this to the world and to the people that looked
to governments to insure that this did not happen; but then did not bother
to keep track of what governments everywhere were doing in direct opposition
to what would work for the world instead of against, both it and us!
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- If we want to change the world then we must go 'Back
to the Future' and eliminate those players that brought us all - to the
edge of oblivion.
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) Documents from Cheney Energy Task Force Released (not
quite 'all')
- http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a071703foiaenergy
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- 2) The Most Destructive Project on Earth (2008)
- http://www.celsias.com/article/the-most-destructive-project-on-earth-albertas-tar/
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- 3) Cap & Trade a critical look at carbon trading
video
- http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/15/cap_trade_a_critical_look_at
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