Re: New head of USGS

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Wed, 03 May 2006 22:08:45 -0600 frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>
writes:

> it is President Bush's intention to  
> nominate Mark D. Myers as new director of the USGS subject to  
> confirmation by the US Senate.  He was a north slope 
> sedimentologist/ 
> petroleum guy and former head of the Alaska Division of Geological  
> 
> and Geophysical Survey.


Bush nominated an anti-environmentalist, pro-Big Oil crony to his
administration?!   That is so out of character for him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3502867.stm

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Bush-Distorting-Facts18feb04.htm


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