worker-safety – Oil Watchdog

Press Release

Chevron Counts on Jigsaw Puzzle of Safety Regulation to Escape Oversight, Accountability, Says Consumer Watchdog

7. August 2012

Santa Monica, CA — Monday night’s explosion and hours-long fire at Chevron’s large oil refinery in Richmond, Ca., released toxic chemicals including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide in unknown amounts, sending hundreds of local residents to local hospitals with breathing and eye complaints. Yet the state agency with the most expertise in regulating such toxins, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, claims it has little to no oversight of dangerous substances produced in refinery accidents, said Consumer Watchdog.

Blog Post

Chevron Witness Pay: Is It Really Hush Money?

Posted by Judy Dugan

18. April 2011

Chevron’s army of lawyers isn’t its only weapon in staving off the demand of Ecuadoran peasants that the company clean up its toxic drilling mess in the Amazon. Chevron is also happy to use deception, secret video and dirty tricksters. The problem with tricksters, however, is that it can be hard to keep them in the fold, and they can be so darned greedy. Consider the tale of secret videotaper Diego Borja, and the “expense money”of at least $169,000 that Chevron has heaped on him since August 2009.

Blog Post

What BP’s Secrecy on Payout Deals Sacrifices

Posted by Judy Dugan

7. December 2010

We’ve reported about what’s wrong in the secrecy around BP’s payments to Kenneth Feinberg and his law firm, which is doling out compensation for BP’s devastating oil spill in the Gulf. Monday, though, the Center for Justice and Democracy got deep into the guts of the matter.

News Clipping

Spill Commission Defends Its Top Lawyer

By J.M. Broder , THE NEW YORK TIMES GREEN BLOG

16. November 2010

The panel named by President Obama to investigate the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout on Tuesday rejected a call by a consumer activist group for the resignation of its chief counsel, Fred H. Bartlit Jr. The group, Consumer Watchdog, said that the panel should dismiss Mr. Bartlit because his law firm, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, once represented Halliburton, one of the companies involved in drilling the BP well.

Press Release

Obama Should Stop BP Fund Administrator Feinberg From Giving Chamber Of Commerce Keynote Or Fire Him, Watchdog Says

CONTACT: Carmen Balber

26. October 2010

Washington, DC — Consumer Watchdog asked President Obama to force BP Fund Administrator Kenneth Feinberg to withdraw from a keynote address Wednesday at a Chamber of Commerce group dedicated to eviscerating spill victims’ legal rights, and to fire Feinberg if he refuses.

Blog Post

BP Safety Chief: Big Talk, but What Else?

Posted by Judy Dugan

29. September 2010

BP executives can’t seriously believe that this time they’ll get safety right. The company’s penny-pinching “safety be damned” culture is too entrenched to reverse–especially if you put the old vice-president of excuses in charge of the new plan.

Blog Post

Oops, there’s oil on the water after all *(or not)

Posted by Judy Dugan

2. September 2010

The new oil platform fire or explosion in the Gulf of Mexico looks minor in comparison to the BP spill, but there are sure some loud echoes in how it’s being handled. When word first…

Blog Post

BP’s CEO Crisis Lurch (Again)

Posted by Judy Dugan

27. July 2010

“When he abruptly resigned as chief executive of BP PLC [he] left the company in disarray. The giant energy producer was struggling with
a legacy of accidents and spills in the U.S.” Nope, that’s not about the swift booting of Tony Hayward by the BP board on Tuesday. It’s from a 2007 Bloomberg story on the last crisis change in leadership at BP.

Blog Post

Big Oil’s Boondoggle Machine

Posted by Judy Dugan

7. July 2010

Given the fury directed at BP in Congressional hearings on the Gulf oil spill, you’d think the time was ripe to cut the oil industry’s ridiculous subsidies–amounting to at least $40 billion per decade, according…

Blog Post

Beware BP spin on size record

Posted by Judy Dugan

1. July 2010

7-01-2010 by dugan BP’s devastating oil spill may now be the largest accidental spill in modern history, bigger than the estimated 140 million gallons spewed by the 1979-80 Ixtoc spill off the coast of…

Blog Post

Supporting Oilworkers’ Families

Posted by Khan Shoieb

23. June 2010

Consumer Watchdog Joins Group of Advocates in Letter to Rep. Conyers to Assist Families of Deceased Oil Rig Workers 06-23-10 by Khan Consumer Watchdog has joined groups promoting justice and consumer advocates in a letter…

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Hayward: ‘No reckless behavior’

Posted by Khan Shoieb

17. June 2010

Hayward: "No evidence of reckless behavior" by Khan In response to Rep. Stearns’ (FL) question about whether people were suffering in the Gulf due to BP’s reckless behavior, Hayward responds: "There was no evidence of…

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Barton’s Non-Apology

Posted by Khan Shoieb

17. June 2010

Rep. Barton says some may have "misconstrued" his accusation of a White House "shakedown" and "national tragedy." by Khan Rep. Barton (TX) just took a moment to clear up his "shakedown" comment. Saying…

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