VOL. XLIV

No. 06

5-February-2001

US

Bush Names Cheney To Head USEnergy Task Force

US President George W Bush on 29January named Vice-President Dick Cheney as head of a national energy taskforce charged with drawing up a national energy policy aimed at inter alia reducing energy prices and dependence on foreign oil other than that fromCanada and Mexico. The task force will include the Secretaries of Energy,Commerce, Treasury, Interior and Transportation as well as the administrator ofthe...