Lashing

BP, Anadarko Trade Barbs Over Responsibility

Last Thursday — the 59th day of the continuing Macondo well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — BP plc CEO Tony Hayward took a tongue lashing from House lawmakers during a subcommittee hearing that shed little if any light on what caused the nation’s worst environmental catastrophe. Not long after, BP was blasted by well partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

June 21, 2010

Hayward’s Grilling by House Lawmakers Yields Little Insight

On the 59th day of the ongoing Macondo well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico BP plc CEO Tony Hayward took a tongue lashing from House lawmakers during a subcommittee hearing that shed little if any light on what caused the nation’s worst environmental catastrophe.

June 18, 2010

Northwest Energy Coalition Criticizes Environmental Group

A business-labor coalition in the Pacific Northwest is lashing out at environmental organization Columbia Riverkeeper (CRK) for allegedly working covertly in a recent anti-liquefied natural gas (LNG) local election. CRK’s work supposedly led to the narrow recall of one of five members of the Clatsop County (OR) Commission, a majority of which has supported building an LNG receiving terminal along the Columbia River.

November 23, 2009