6 December 2002 ]
Ministry of Defence: The Construction of Nuclear Submarine Facilities at
Devonport (1.6MB PDF)
Audit report on the contract to build special docks on the Devonshire coast
so that Britain's nuclear submarines can be refitted. The project is now
massively over budget, and the UK Government has agreed to pay virtually
all of the additional costs despite the stated allocation of risk in the
contract, which specifies that the contractor should pay. The contractor is
DML, a firm owned primarily by Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton,
the US oil services company formerly headed by US Vice President Dick
Cheney ( NAO )
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See also this press release, this Guardian coverage, this blog entry from
Wednesday, and this blog entry from May.LINKS?
http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
