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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 8216 United States 09/19/2005 06:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Subject: PRESIDENT BUSH´S LEAKY OIL BARGES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written 4:37 pm Feb 25, 1991 by christic in cdp:christic.news PRESIDENT BUSH´S LEAKY OIL BARGES Project Censored: Nomination for the "Ten Best Censored Stories of 1990" When three of the most powerful political men in the United States have a little business on the side that reeks of conflict of interest, you would think the mass media would be interested. But you´d be wrong. Common Cause Magazine examined a financial interest in a Houston- based oil tank-barge business (Hollywood Holding) shared by President George Bush, Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, and Secretary of State James Baker and found it deserved widespread media exposure for at least three reasons: 1) The Bush administration has proclaimed itself the environmental administration; 2) the tank-barge industry is a major polluter of U.S. waterways; 3) the company that manages the Bush- Mosbacher-Baker barges is one of the largest tank-barge companies in the United States; collectively its barges, which carry petroleum products, have spilled upwards of 200 times since 1980, government documents show. The Common Cause Magazine research revealed that: --President Bush invested $50,000 in the barge partnership Hollywood L.P.G. 2 in 1978. He already has earned about $130,000 on his investment and will continue to receive about $20,000 a year for the foreseeable future. --Commerce Secretary Mosbacher, whose agency monitors U.S. waters for pollution, has a 25-percent share in the 220-barge fleet of Hollywood Holding which has been responsible for at least 200 oil spills between 1980 and 1989. --Secretary Baker has invested $175,000 in Hollywood concerns since 1978. More than half of the 24 barges Baker has invested in have polluted at least once since 1980, according to Coast Guard documents. Although they carry much smaller loads, tank-barges can cause more total pollution than tankers since they pollute inland, in bodies of water that are more fragile ecologically than the open sea. According to the most recent Coast Guard information, tank barges spilled more than 4.3 million gallons of oil and other hazardous substances during 1983 and 1984, compared with 2.1 million gallons spilled by oil tankers during that time. Congress is considering oil spill legislation that could require double hulls in both tankers and tank barges. While barge interests argue that the double-hull provision is economically infeasible and would result in only a modest reduction in pollution, the Coast Guard says that an entirely double-hulled fleet would reduce total barge pollution by 80 percent. According to a press spokesperson in the Department of Transportation, the Bush administration is not in favor of phasing out single-hulled vessels but is in favor of further study. President Bush is apparently aware that mass media exposure of his tank-barge investment could be politically embarrassing. On April 10, 1989, a little more than two weeks after the supertanker Exxon Valdez gushed oil onto hundreds of square miles of Alaska´s Prince William Sound, Bush put his partnership interest into a qualified blind trust. This means it will not appear on his future financial disclosure statements. Nonetheless, thanks to the exhaustive investi-gation by Common Cause Magazine, it already is on the record and now deserves mass media attention. SOURCE: COMMON CAUSE MAGAZINE, Mar/Apr 1990, "Three Men and a Barge," by Teresa Riordan, p 29-33. [link to www.skepticfiles.org] |
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merlinnz User ID: 23 New Zealand 09/19/2005 06:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the trial actually starts next week, then this has been on a Court Docket for well over a year. It seems odd that no one has sniffed it out, given the penchant for court officials to earn extra money by letting journalists know when interesting names file or are filed against. Or can you guys get name suppression for civil trials? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 4321 United States 09/20/2005 09:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey 10413: >>>"If the trial actually starts next week, then this has been on a Court Docket for well over a year."<<< You are aware that this is a ´kangaroo court´, and is not real in any sense of the word... No one involved in this has any official capacity whatsoever... |