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WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Real work begins behind the scenes

06/23/2008
US Senate rejection of punitive oil taxes and a global climate change bill within days of each other doesn’t mean the ideas are dead; they simply have moved behind the scenes where oil and gas industry lobbyists expect intense negotiations.“Our real work has begun. We are busier 2 days after the Senate votes than we were for a month before,” said William F. Whitsitt, president of the American Exploration & Production Council, when I met him at a Canadian oil sands conference on June 11. “There are still some very pernicious ideas out there. “Two days earlier Lee O. Fuller, vice-president, government relations, Independent Petroleum Association of America,...
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