A Sea of Oil | Green Energy News

July 13, 2003 – Vol.8 No.16

A SEA OF OIL.

We, the often uninformed public, don’t know exactly what was said at meetings of U.S.Vice President Cheney’s energy task force in early 2001. (The Vice President won’t tell us.) But we do know that the task force had maps of the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates as well as Iraq on the table to look at.

The task force also had lists of companies and countries which were seeking oil-related contracts in Iraq before the war. On the list are companies from France and Germany, both accused of being opposed to the war because they were seeking these contracts. Yet also on the list are companies from Japan, Canada, the U.K., Australia - 30 nations in all.

We may never know what was discussed in these meetings regarding Iraqi oil. Was the task force just discussing the location of world oil reserves? Or was the possible invasion of Iraq discussed by these people?

The maps and other documents were retrieved from the U.S. Commerce Department as part of an on-going lawsuit jointly pursued by Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club. The papers are among the 40,000 pages of documents released from various U.S. government agencies as copies of those given to Cheney’s task force more than two years ago.

For your own map of Iraq’s oil fields, and the lists of contractors, visit Judicial Watch at http://www.judicialwatch.org/ .