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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.
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.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Makes you wonder if he has not been behind the scenes planning and negotiating for this contract, eh?
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.
Originally posted by marg6043
You know I imagine that it was going to be Haliburton the one to be the favorite. I wonder why!!!!!!
Originally posted by FredT
The simple fact of the matter is that companies like Haliburton, Bechtel et al. are the only ones with the size and resources to facilitate this type of contract in the time frame and scale required. You don't just crack the yellow pages under disasters and hire some local general contractor.
[edit on 9/4/05 by FredT]
Originally posted by Sri Oracle
Why do we have to build things that only mega suppliers can build?
Why is the mississippi flood delta not returned to farmers and farm land? Where seasonal flooding is considered a blessing from God.
Why do we NEED to rebuild concrete infrastructure on a delta?
Local contractors would do just fine if the goals in rebuilding NO were more earth friendly. America is only dependent upon Halliburtons because it wants more than it needs.
But sure... if you want to re-channel the river and rebuild a toxic waste infrastructure... I'm sure The Corp of Engineers, Halliburton, Worley Parsons, or Bechtel would be a great choice.
Sri Oracle
Originally posted by Zaphod58
I love how the Bush haters are all pointing fingers at him for not building up or repairing the levees. The repair of the wetlands, and the upkeep of the levees has slowly been having money cut from it for years, but the last several presidents. Clinton was just as bad about cutting funds for it, as was Bush Sr, and probably Regan as well.
Originally posted by Seekerof
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.
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.
Halliburton hired for storm cleanup
Oppps, this is more of that concrete proof that Cheney and Bush, was behind Hurricane Katrina so that they could become even richer. First they profited off of Iraq, and now they are going to profit off the worst natural castastrophe to hit the US.
Interesting, no?
seekerof
[edit on 2-9-2005 by Seekerof]