October 31, 2006 - MARKEY BLASTS BUSH INTERIOR DEPT. ON CHEVRON'S UNDERPAYMENT OF ROYALTIES
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce and Resources Committees, sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Interior asking him to explain Interior’s unwillingness to press oil companies like Chevron for the royalties they owe the American taxpayer for drilling on federal lands. Below is a brief statement from Rep. Markey, and his letter to Interior Secretary Kempthorne can be found here: Letter - to Sec Kempthorne Re Chevron Underpayment of Royalties.pdf
October 26, 2006 - MARKEY: EXXONMOBIL'S DIRTY TRICK ON AMERICAN CONSUMERS IS TREAT FOR BIG OIL SHAREHOLDERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In response to reports that oil industry giant ExxonMobil’s third-quarter earnings rose to $10.49 billion, the second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly-traded U.S. company, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Democratic Member of the House Energy and Commerce and Resources Committees, today issued the following statement:
September 27, 2006 - MARKEY SETS EXPECTATIONS FOR HP HEARINGS TOMORROW, URGES CONGRESS TO ACT ON PRIVACY MEASURES ASAP
WASHINGTON, DC -- On the eve of the hearings in the House Energy and Commerce Committee this Thursday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), the top Democrat on the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee released the following statement about the Hewlett Packard privacy debacle. Rep. Markey, also the co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, has sponsored a number of bills to protect personal privacy, including clarifying anti-pretexting laws.
June 8, 2006 - Markey urges oil executives to clarify misstatements on royalty relief
MARKEY, DEMS CORRECT OIL INDUSTRY’S WRONG INFORMATION ON ROYALTY RELIEF, URGE EXECUTIVES TO RENEGOTIATE EXISTING CONTRACTS IMMEDIATELY
Markey-Hinchey Royalty Relief Measure, Accepted by House, Would Prohibit New Leases to Any Company that Keeps Current Leases Providing Royalty-Free Drilling At Any Price
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Resources and Energy and Commerce Committees, was joined by Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Nick J. Rahall II (D-WV), Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ), and James Moran (D-VA) in sending a letter to the American Petroleum Institute and all the U.S. oil companies’ chief executives to clarify previous misstatements by the oil industry on royalty relief. The lawmakers’ letter urges the executives to avoid spreading false or misleading information that an amendment they attached to the Interior Appropriations bill last month would bar U.S. companies from bidding on new leases. The lawmakers’ letter noted that the amendment did no such thing, and that it instead merely restricted companies from bidding on new leases until they renegotiate contracts issued in 1998 and 1999 which failed to include clauses that would suspend royalty-free drilling during periods of high market prices.
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