Halliburton's KBR unit gets contract to repair Gulf Coast facilities

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Houston Business Journal - 11:10 AM CDT Tuesday

Halliburton's KBR unit gets contract to repair Gulf Coast facilities


Halliburton Co.'s Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary has begun work on a $500 million U.S. Navy contract for emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and marine facilities that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina, according to an Associated Press report.

KBR has been under fire for receiving a five-year, no-bid contract to restore Iraqi oil fields shortly before the U.S. went to war against Iraq in 2003.

The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. of Arlington, Va., won the competitive-bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters.

Jan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, told AP that KBR will receive $12 million for work at Naval Air Station Pascagoula, Naval Station Gulfport and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The company will receive $4.6 million for work at two smaller Navy facilities in New Orleans and others in the South.


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http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/09/05/daily5.html

[Helga Scow Stern]

1. The "Rise of Disaster Capitalism"

it works around the world (to line their pockets and remold a region for their purposes), so why not here?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050502/klein/3

[merwin]

2. This was declared last thursday.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1747674
From Sept 2nd