Does this mean what I think it means re: Halliburton?

[Booster]

Am I reading this right? That Halliburton does not have the Katrina contract?
Halliburton Co. (HAL) (60.77 -1.47)

Contracts for cleanup and rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina that
were awarded without competition will be opened up for
rebidding, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency said. David Paulison, who took over at FEMA last month,
told the Senate Homeland Security Committee the agency was
looking at the no-bid contracts carefully and was striving to
reduce dependence on them in future disasters. Contracts worth
at least $1.5 billion were awarded to firms with little or no
competition to help clean up and begin the reconstruction of
the devastated Gulf Coast region, and many local contractors
were pushed aside. Major contract winners in the days after
Katrina struck included SHAW GROUP INC. and FLUOR CORP.
Representatives of both companies were not immediately
available to comment. A HALLIBURTON CO. spokeswoman said the
company's Kellogg, Brown & Root unit was doing Katrina work
under pre-existing, competitively bid contracts for other
government agencies and had no ongoing work with FEMA. With an
estimated total $200 billion cost to rebuild the area, the
stakes are high, and lawmakers are raising issue with the way
those contracts were awarded.
(Reuters 04:28 PM ET 10/06/2005)

[whistle]

1. Dick Cheney has lost the midis touch for Halliburton, eh.....

[Horse with no Name]

2. I believe they are doing the oil cleanup work

technically they aren't working "for" FEMA, however, they are still getting the work under another government agency.

[Booster]

4. I'm a little confused by this. If they aren't doing work for FEMA

why would this item be Halliburton news? This kind of stuff is always way over my head.

[Horse with no Name]

5. strictly semantics

many are lumping all work done in NOLA as being contracted by FEMA, and Halliburton is trying to deflect and say "We aren't working for FEMA", thus making the sheeple not believe what they have been hearing about croneyism in the rebuilding of NOLA.
It is a mere technicality that they aren't working for FEMA (they are counting on that to confuse the sheeple), they are still working under no bid contracts that were secured by another federal agency.

[FreedomAngel82]

So in other words

just to save their asses so they can make more money.

[Booster]

7. Ah, thanks for clarifying the mud on this. If their intent was to

confuse, I'm their first victim. ha

[Igel]

3. Last I heard Halliburton was only contracted to repair the

military bases in the area (of which there are several). I don't think it was a 'no bid' contract; it was part of a standing contingency contract.

Sort of a 'we want somebody on the hook to take care of a problem if it comes up.' And they always do.

[highplainsdem]

6. Contracts will be re-bid. See this LA Times story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-100605fema_lat,0,5391474.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[sandnsea]

8. "was doing Katrina work"

Yes, they have Katrina contracts. FEMA said in a meeting yesterday they were going to re-bid them all.

"FEMA reports today that 5 of the nation’s major corporations have been contracted to “speed emergency housing relief” to the Gulf Coast. “Fluor Corp. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. heads up operations for the Housing Area Command. An engineering and construction firm, it is now in Louisiana beginning construction on temporary housing units that will provide electricity, potable water and sanitary sewage facilities. Bechtel National Inc. of San Francisco, an engineering and construction firm that is now on the scene in Gulf states to provide emergency housing relief.” This in addition to the $500 million contract KBR has already received for clean up and repairs to Gulf Coast military facilities."

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1357

[Horse with no Name]

9. Is this your blog?

Would like to bookmark it is it is.