and Lurgi, a

German company, established CAL to use Lurgi’s production technology, Circored, to build and

operate a hot briquetted iron production facility in Trinidad. Cliffs owned 82 percent of the CAL

shares, and Lurgi owned the remainder. CAL completed the facility in 1998 and operated it

intermittently until October 2001, when the facility was closed down.

       Cliffs and Lurgi sought to sell CAL in January 2003. CAL created a data room to contain

corporate documents in Cleveland in connection with the sale; it is unclear whether Lurgi played

any role in the creation of the room. Several potential buyers visited the data room, including

representatives from Kinder Morgan CO2, a firm based in Texas. After Kinder Morgan declined

to purchase CAL, James Wuerth, a Kinder Morgan employee, founded Burnshireundertaking when we boarded the NY to Tulsa, Oklahoma, Greyhound bus service. 34 hours of unadulterated bad time.

It started innocuously enough when we boarded at 9.30am at the Port Authority bus terminal on 42nd street. A nice empty bus with maybe 4 other passengers which wound it's way through the city to Newark in New Jersey. From there it was fairly uneventful until we reached a place called Harrisburg in Pennsylvania when two women boarded, shepherding 6 feral children all of whom had menacing looks in their close together eyes.

Luckily we were due for a change of bus soon enough so we put up with the raucous screeching and unbridled seat kicking for an hour or so before it was time to change.

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