Gale Norton, Former Sec. of Interior, Goes to Shell

Never saw this one coming! :sarcasm:

Gale Norton is back providing oversight of energy development issues on public lands in the American West, this time as a key legal advisor for a major global oil company.

Months after she resigned her cabinet post as President Bush's Interior Secretary—and then seemed to disappear from public view—the Coloradan apparently has accepted an offer to serve as counsel for Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

Shell, one of the world's largest producers of oil, was also one of the companies that Norton's Interior Department routinely engaged on matters of drilling in sensitive ecological settings.

According to Dow Jones Market Watch, which published her job announcement Wednesday, Norton will serve as general counsel for Shell's unconventional resources division. By "unconventional resources," a Shell spokesman said it pertained to emerging technology that targets such things as oil shale and extra heavy oil. Shell's U.S. subsidiary, Shell Oil Co., is based in Houston, but Norton will be allowed to render her legal expertise from Denver.


http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/former_bush_interior_secretary_takes_job_as_attorney_for_shell/C38/L38/

... the current statements coming from the admininstration about Polar Bears being threatened by global warming would have never happened under her. Not ever.

I appreciate your dripping sarcasm, but we need an icon for oozing or pouring sarcasm

Former Sec. of Interior, Goes to hell, Imagine my disappointment. Oh well just a matter of time.
:cry: :evilgrin: 8643

And opened the thread out of extreme curiosity!!!

I remember when Gale left, there were many tearful stories and columns filed about what a tremendous voice for "moderation" had left the Bush administration. Oh, it was to weep and rend one's garments to contemplate the difficulties no doubt faced by Ms. Norton as she valiantly worked at Interior to speak for the environment!

And now she's gone to work for Shell. Times? Post? Anything to say? Newsweek? NBC?

Oooh, listen, crickets!

Man I need glasses!

many folks would actually misread it. :)

Olafr