Bush-Era Interior Secretary Gale Norton Worked With Shell On Strategy For Controversial 11th-Hour Deals: LA Times

latimes.com:

Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to lock in lucrative royalty rates and favorable regulations for oil companies holding leases for oil-shale development on public lands.

The decision, which came in the form of amendments to existing leases, drew little public notice at the end of the Bush administration in January. But since then, congressional watchdogs, environmental groups and state officials in Colorado, where most of the leases are located, have denounced the amendments as a massive giveaway to the oil industry.

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Comments

[kareemachan]

"Gale Norton, who joined Shell as an attorney in its oil-shale division nine months after she resigned as Bush's Interior secretary. The Justice Department is investigating her for possible conflicts of interest involving her handling of Shell leases while she was Interior secretary."

Ya think there just might be a conflict of interest? I'm glad she's outta the DOI, anyway. She was a real female canine, from the remarks she made during her tenure.

[NoSillyName]

What does the headline mentioning Obama on the front Denver page have to do with the story?

[Amalek]

I guess she really needs the money.

[donbrown]

This is just as criminal as the firing of the eight attorneys from the justice department.

Both Rove and Norton should be indicted...and if I had my way, Cheney, too.

[gdcormany]

Classy, Gale. Sell out much?

[austin4]

For this is the Bush Legacy....­.......Typ­ical

[BillyPilgram57]

People wonder where the jobs are coming from.............. we can start
by building prisons for all the shining stars of the G W Bush yrs.

[lost souls rembrd]

shame shame and more shame

the fallout from the 8 years of bush is never ending. hanging my head in discust

[sgmorr]

Where are the teabaggers? Why aren't they up in arms over this giveaway?

[bmermaid]

Another conspiracy by the Bush Admin to defraud the American people? The list is so long...