[CPEO-MEF] SHIPS: California "Ghost Fleet" Contract

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Feds shouldn't have scrapped open bidding

Editorial
San Francisco Chronicle
November 20, 2010

The $3.1 million federal contract awarded last week for a newly formed 
company to scrap two obsolete World War II-era cargo ships in the Suisun 
Bay Reserve Fleet seemed perfect in every way, except one.

We say perfect in that it responded to so many North Bay community concerns.

It will remove a source of pollution created by lead-based paint from 
the derelict vessels flaking into the bay waters.

...

But why wasn't the contract put out to bid? Global prices for scrap 
metal are rising. Scrapping ships is profitable even without subsidy.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/20/EDFA1GEG4V.DTL


See also
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/12/BA781G9LCF.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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