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Well worth the read. Great background
on Michigan's chemical giant and their unsavory political lobbying, connections
and activities.
Michelle Hurd Riddick
Lone Tree Council
How Dow Chemical Defies
Homeland Security and Risks Another 9/11
Counter Punch
Brian McKenna
November 20 2008
I'm surprised if anybody is surprised
by this," said an outraged Rahm Emanuel, President-Elect Obama's new Chief of
Staff. "This [Bush] administration, from day one, has always chosen polluters
over the environment," he told the Chicago Tribune last May. The event he was
fuming over was indeed deplorable - the firing of Mary Gade, the Environmental
Protection Agency’s top Midwestern official
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Dow Chemical's resistance to federal
Department of Homeland Security guidelines is equally outrageous.
President-elect Obama enters an arena where there are 7,000 high risk U.S.
chemical facilities.
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Dow Chemical, DuPont and the industry
at large have spent millions to effectively lobby Congress and the President to
stop them from invoking safer measures.
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But there's more. In a revealing
interview in USA Today (August 17, 2008) Liveris cautioned that without US
federal support to protect profit margins the chemical industry will be forced
to move factories and jobs overseas. "Frankly, when free markets prevail, we
have to shut down factories and replace them overseas in places like Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, China and Oman, where
governments lock in energy availability, guarantee prices and de-risk our
investment.
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