jackspratt wrote:Texpat wrote:There was no personal or national vendetta. The CEO of any company that created such a environmental catastrophe would have met the same fate. Perhaps Haywards next company won't be so flippant and careless about safety.
Exactly!
Unless they were an American of course.
Lawrence G. Rawl (May 4, 1928 - February 14, 2005) was the Chairman and CEO of Exxon from 1985 to 1993.
By 1980, he was named a senior vice president and director of Exxon Corporation. In 1985, he was named president of the corporation; and in 1987, he became chairman and CEO. During his tenure as head of Exxon, he moved the corporate headquarters from New York to Irving, Texas, increased reserves, and expanded the chemical operations of the corporation.
He was at the helm of the company when the Exxon Valdez oil spill went occured in 1989. He faced criticism for his response to the oil spill — his slow public response and demeanor in interviews were noted and the focus of criticism of the company.
Rawl retired from Exxon in 1993 at the mandatory retirement age of 65 after 41 years with the company.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_G._Rawl
Or, of course, who could ever forget Bhopal.
Warren M. Anderson (born 1921) is a former chairman and chief executive officer of Union Carbide. He held these posts during the Bhopal disaster in 1984, in which more than 20,000 people died and thousands more were injured. The disaster took place in a plant belonging to an Indian subsidiary, Union Carbide India Limited, in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Anderson was born in 1921 in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York,...............
As the Union Carbide CEO at the time of the disaster, Anderson was charged with manslaughter in the Bhopal disaster case. Anderson returned to the US after being arrested and has refused to return to India. He was declared a fugitive from justice by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal on February 1, 1992, for failing to appear at the court hearings in a culpable homicide case in which he was named the chief defendant. The chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal, Prakash Mohan Tiwari, issued an arrest warrant for Anderson on July 31, 2009. The United States has declined to extradite him, citing a lack of evidence.
In August 2009, a spokesman for Union Carbide said "Union Carbide had no role in operating the plant at the time as the factory was owned, managed and operated by employees of Union Carbide India Limited." Eight former senior employees of this subsidiary were found guilty on June 7, 2010. After these convictions, a Union Carbide spokesperson said, "All the appropriate people from UCIL -- officers and those who actually ran the plant on a daily basis -- have appeared to face charges."
As an aside. I wonder what would have been the response had the Indian cabinet "invited" the US Attorney General of the time to appear in India to explain himself, and the reasons for not extraditing Anderson?
Notwithstanding the fact that he hasn't (yet) been found guilty of any offences in a court of law, or that he had a long and illustrious career as an oil man, though clearly not as a PR man. 
, but Tony Hayward and BP are British. 
