Halliburton gets contract to repair damage from Hurricane Katrina

[The Blue Flower]

News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government
02 September 2005
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http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
Halliburton gets contract to repair damage from Hurricane Katrina (HalliburtonWatch.org) 02 Sep 2005 The US Navy asked Halliburton to repair naval facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the Houston Chronicle reported today. The work was assigned to Halliburton's KBR subsidiary under the Navy's $500 million CONCAP contract awarded to KBR in 2001 and renewed in 2004. The repairs will take place in Louisiana and Mississippi. In March, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is tasked with responding to hurricane disasters, became a lobbyist for KBR.

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[one_true_leroy]

1. I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am so damned ashamed of and outraged by this government.

[aquart]

3. I didn't want to believe it.

[ElectroPrincess]

7. This is TOO MUCH! When will the American Sheeple scream "NO MORE"?!? /eom

[greekspeak]

58. Do you honestly beleive that if they knew they would care?

I bet not 20% of the American population could tell you what Halliburton was. I bet a fourth would say it is something you get at Long John Silver's. The news will not report this, what does get out is squelched by RW hate radio as librul bias. Just give the Sheeple their Britany Spears, or Jen vs. Brad, or the dish de jour and they will sit and masticate it like cattle in a field. The MSM is already beginning to genuflect at Dubya, as if he somehow single handedly stopped the hurricane himself. Most Americans just do not want to expend the mental energy to think about something not affecting them directly.

[i miss america]

26. Me too. This is beyond belief.

Here's the Halliburon press release from http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/hurricane_katrina.html

Halliburton gets Katrina contract, hires former FEMA director
1 Sept. 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- The US Navy asked Halliburton to repair naval facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the Houston Chronicle reported today. The work was assigned to Halliburton's KBR subsidiary under the Navy's $500 million CONCAP contract awarded to KBR in 2001 and renewed in 2004. The repairs will take place in Louisiana and Mississippi.

KBR has not been asked to repair the levees destroyed in New Orleans which became the primary cause of most of the damage.

Since 1989, governments worldwide have awarded $3 billion in contracts to KBR's Government and Infrastructure Division to clean up damage caused by natural and man-made disasters.

Earlier this year, the Navy awarded $350 million in contracts to KBR and three other companies to repair naval facilities in northwest Florida damaged by Hurricane Ivan, which struck in September 2004. The ongoing repair work involves aircraft support facilities, medium industrial buildings, marine construction, mechanical and electrical improvements, civil construction, and family housing renovation.

In March, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is tasked with responding to hurricane disasters, became a lobbyist for KBR. Joe Allbaugh was director of FEMA during the first two years of the Bush administration.

Today, FEMA is widely criticized for its slow response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Allbaugh managed Bush's campaign for Texas governor in 1994, served as Gov. Bush's chief of staff and was the national campaign manager for the Bush campaign in 2000. Along with Karen Hughes and Karl Rove, Allbaugh was one of Bush's closest advisers.

"This is a perfect example of someone cashing in on a cozy political relationship," said Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington watchdog group. "Allbaugh's former placement as a senior government official and his new lobbying position with KBR strengthens the company's already tight ties to the administration, and I hope that contractor accountability is not lost as a result."




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[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. What's that thing that's the opposite of shock and surprise?

[MissMarple]

9. Cynical watchfulness or slow burning anger?

I'm angry.

[xray s]

4. Know you know what Cheneys been doing

slaughtering the hog and passing out the sausage

[MadeinOhio]

5. Cheney and his Halliburton terrorists at it again.....

Lets get them incarcerated. With these idiots, its always Oil before lives.

[dave29]

6. That's one lucky Company

aint it

[oldtime dfl_er]

yea, that's the ticket, it's sheer luck

that's all it is. Just luck! I vomit. (not flaming you -- joining you in sarcasm!)

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/813190

[Just Me]

8. So, that's what Dickhead's been doing - profiteering off human,...

,...tragedy, as usual. :mad:

[gollygee]

10. That was quick

sure helps to have friends in high places.

Too bad these folks don't have important friends
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/

[Witchy_Dem]

11. OMG I was just KIDDING!!

Much less than I anticipated but I was just kidding.

[Witchy_Dem]

17. Link to my post earlier today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4579742

[anarch]

64. uh huh - just cynically think of the most greed-based, privileged abuse

of power imaginable, and what you get is a relatively good prediction of how the administration will act.

[Coexist]

12. UN - FUCKING- BELIEVABLE

[Initech]

29. What he said.

Actually, it's worth repeating - UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!

[Desertrose]

13. former director of FEMA is now a lobbyist for KBR(Halliburton)???

I know I shouldn't be surprised at this but somhow...I am.

[Divernan]

23. That's Joe "War Profiteer" Albaugh, who Bush named to gut FEMA

He left his post as Director of Fema after about a year and started two consulting companies to make bucks out of the Iraq war. He left behind him at FEMA his childhood buddy, Michael D. Brown. Neither man had any experience in emergency or disaster relief work. Albaugh was Bush's lapdog/former campaign manager; Brown was a flea on the lapdog. There are big gaps in his official resume on the FEMA website.

[eyepaddle]

14. Wow, evrey time you think, maybe, just maybe

they won't go THAT far....they do. And sneer at us while they do.

As a former Halliburton employee (SSDS)--fuck Halliburton.

[cthrumatrix]

15. Haliburton get's contract b4 bush get's to NO....... //////////////

[Rainscents]

16. America people need to wake up and scram about this NOW!!!!!!

[Divernan]

18. Haliburton gets contract before victims get water, let alone evacuated

The key to the whole Bush approach was when he said today that out of this chaos would emerge a vibrant gulf coast, or words to that effect. The GOP ghouls, aka developers/mega home builders/ Haliburton will make even more billions out of this. In reality, anyone developing waterfront property on the coast must hurry and sell it before the next major hurricane.

[indepat]

62. Keeping RW priorities in order: Halliburton has hit the daily-double, so

let the good times and the no-bid, unlimited-cost-overrun contracts roll.

[mzmolly]

19. Oh lord.

.......recommended..........

[Pallas180]

20. No Asking For Bids? why am I

not surprised. . . :rofl:

[Coexist]

21. kick

[Blaukraut]

22. no surprise here

Halliburton and Cheney have been making out like the bandits they are since the day Crashcart and Chimpy slithered into office back in 2000. Every catastrophe, every disaster, manmade or otherwise - heeere comes Halliburton to the looting.....uhh, I mean 'rescue'. :puke:

[gollygee]

24. For everyone who says that the federal gov't can't act quickly. . .

They could move this quickly to get this contract together.

[Witchy_Dem]

25. Before whirlwind tour and photo op hugging and kissing a little girl.

No wonder he was smiling all afternoon.

[gollygee]

28. Maybe this is what took him so long

and why Dick Cheney's been AWOL.

They've been putting together a contract for their buddies to be able to capitalize off this.

[Witchy_Dem]

30. Vision in my head of those two riding on our backs, bit in our mouths,

and their spurs in our sides. What a bunch of yahoo's.

[MsUSA]

27. can we send this to the media???

I'm not real sure how to do that. This is outrageous, and everyone should know. :mad: :mad:

[Coexist]

32. I already hit CNN and Randi Rhodes

if everyone who is outraged sends it to two - we should blanket their asses.

[orpupilofnature57]

33. Our media or Kkkarls? This is the only media I trust, DU as free from

Halliburton as a people can be.

[Swamp Rat]

31. Is Halliburton popular in Iraq among Iraqis?

Woe to Halliburton employees if they go to New Orleans.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. They will stoop to the depths of hell

to make a profit. :grr:

[Joanne98]

35. This is why Bush canceled the money for levee restoration.......

In the bill it stated that the contacts go to LOCAL contactors. Keep your eye on Fluor Federal Services too. It's the company Jeb used for a lot of SCAMS after Charlie.

[charlie]

36. Explains Cheney's absence

It seems to be our government's sole purpose anymore -- ensuring every stray dollar, dinar, and peso in the world gets diverted into Halliburton's pockets.

[raysr]

40. I thought maybe he passed on

[MissB]

37. I've heard of another multi-million dollar no-bid contract

but not for Halliburton. I don't mind the other company getting the bid (the non-Halliburton one). They are currently working on figuring out the logistics of clean up of some of the hardest hit areas. Some of the stuff they have to think about is horrendous.

At least it isn't Halliburton. :shrug:

[Witchy_Dem]

38. What would be legal ramifications to this? Seriously?

[Misunderestimator]

39. Delete

never mind

[MissB]

41. It wouldn't surprise me if it was real

FEMA is awarding no-bid contracts for clean up right now. :shrug:

[Misunderestimator]

After following the links in the OP...

now I'm utterly confused about the other poster saying it's a joke.

[MissB]

48. I don't know. One way or another, the city has to be picked up

along with all the other areas that were hit by Katrina. I don't think it is outside of the range of normal to think that some companies will be picked. I'm not saying it is right for Halliburton. (Really, I'm not defending them at all.)

But FEMA is making preparations behind the scenes for restoring water and sewer systems and the retrieval/storage/identification of the dead.

[Misunderestimator]

50. After some reading... (edited)

At first I said "It's apparent the contracts were awarded in 2004..." but maybe not... sounds like they are making it seem that way, but it is the KBR work that was awarded the contract... The restoration of electric power etc... sounds new.

Halliburton hired for storm cleanup
The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
ADVERTISEMENT

Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.

KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.

[MissB]

51. Ah.

I get it. Although I do know of at least one company that has received a no-bid contract to do cleanup work for this disaster. I'm sure there are many others that are getting contracts too. Someone has to come in and clean it up.

[Misunderestimator]

53. I edited my prior post... I think this is a NEW contract.

[charlie]

43. Probably not

The markets have been watching likely candidates for Katrina contracts for the past couple of days, bless their wicked hearts:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B648AE374-55D2-43CD-8957-A3BA2F8783B8%7D&siteid=google

[Misunderestimator]

47. flabbergasting.... just a nightmare

[gollygee]

44. No she was joking earlier - didn't think it would be real

it's for real

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

[Misunderestimator]

45. Got it... I'm just too quick on the draw today.

;)

[gollygee]

46. I had to double check

I was sure at first it HAD to be from the Onion or something.

Amazing.

[Witchy_Dem]

49. Imagine *MY* surprise at this header saying they had WON it !?!?!

I hope this isn't real. I really, really do.

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. Halliburton got a contract quicker than the abandoned got food and water.

Evil Bastards!

[BigBearJohn]

52. I started an ENTIRE thread about this yesterday. Sad to say it's true

[BlueJac]

54. Now we all know where the "DICK" was...

Cutting the big deal for Halliburton!

[w8liftinglady]

55. I forwarded link to Randi,CNN,Anderson Cooper

[Nothing Without Hope]

56. An important fact to add to the talking points supporting nonviolent

campaign for US regime change. MUST be done. We can't let ourselves be burned up in anger - we have to be centered and compassionate and organized.

We can do it.

[mom cat]

57. I predicted this several days ago. Another half billion dollars to the

crooks and that is just for starters.

[applegrove]

59. Halliburton makes money going in & out. They make money doing

Halliburton makes money going in & out. They make money doing things that cause global warming. They make money fixing the problems global warming causes. I see a conflict of interest here. Is there a law?

I mean we talk about externalities all the time and how business does not pay for costs their actions cause to third parties. Now the neocons have figured out a way for corporations to make money on those third party costs.

Double the profits!

Is there a law?

[applegrove]

60. Halliburton makes money going in & going out.

Halliburton makes money going in & out. They make money doing things that cause global warming. They make money fixing the problems global warming causes. I see a conflict of interest here. Is there a law?

I mean we talk about externalities all the time and how business does not pay for costs their actions cause to third parties. Now the neocons have figured out a way for corporations to make money on those third party costs.

Double the profits!

Is there a law?

[seemunkee]

61. This is not a new contract. It's a task order on an existing contract

[anarch]

63. well, shit, they've done such a bang-up job rebuilding Baghdad...

I mean, there's solid water and electricity, and a chicken in every pot there, right? What with their no-bid reconstruction contract? Who better for this job??

:banghead: