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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (79967)	5/6/2010 11:46:32 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Gun-slinger Dick Cheney and his company Halliburton — yes, the same one that rakes in billions of dollars in profits rebuilding things in the Middle East after the U.S. military blows them up — is the company that completed the “rig cementing” just 20 hours before the BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf. A federal study, meanwhile, shows that most rig blowouts are caused by problems with rig cementing. So now it appears that Halliburton may be implicated in this massive new environmental disaster. The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that a lawsuit filed by a rig technician who was injured in the explosion claims Halliburton made crucial mistakes in cementing the well, “increasing the pressure at the well and contributing to the fire, explosion and resulting oil spill"... COMPLETE STORY HERE: sott.net