The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 108, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 5, 2000 Page: 11 of 16
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday. March 5.2000
M
BUSINESS
New Mexico company quietly
funds opposition to pipeline
AUSTIN (AP) — A New Mexi-
co refining company has quietly
, spent $4 million on a legal and
public relations campaign to block
a Texas competitor’s efforts to
reopen a 700-mile-long pipeline to
pump gasoline across the state.
The money from Navajo Refin-
ing Co. of New Mexico went to
lawyers, lobbyists and environmen-
tal groups trying to prevent the
Longhorn Partners’ Pipeline Co.
from pumping gasoline and other
chemicals from Houston, through
Austin, to El Paso, according to
court records.
They show Navajo paid a Wash-
ington, D.C., law firm $750,000 to
lobby the federal government
against the pipeline on behalf of the
City of Austin. City officials told
the Austin American-Statesman
they were unaware of the behind-
the-scene benefactor.
The money also trickled down
through several intermediary com-
panies to some of Austin’s leading
environmental groups, including
Clean Water Action. Clean Water
Action also hired former city coun-
cil member Brigid Shea as a con-
sultant.
Sparky Anderson, Texas pro-
gram director of the group, said
learned “very late in the process”
that Navajo was behind $16,000
the group received through an
intermediary company.
“It is definitely a concern of ours
to be aware of these sources of
income to see who is paying for
what and for what benefit,” he said.
Attorneys for Longhorn argued
in court that the accounting of
Navajo’s spending should be
unsealed because the public should
know the source of the money
behind the opposition to Long-
horn's pipeline project.
“In order for the public to judge
the credibility of someone’s mes-
sage, they need to know the source
of where that person is getting the
money,” said Barry Cannady, an
attorney for Longhorn.
The court records do not reveal
how much Longhorn has spent for
its own team of lobbyists, lawyers
and public relations firms. The
company refused to divulge the
information to the newspaper.
That struck Navajo Senior Vice
President John Glancy as unfair. “I
would have thought that anyone
who wanted to make an issue out
of someone else’s expenses would
then supply complementary infor-
mation,” he said,
Sterling grad named
senior VI’ publisher
Jeffrey A. Webber, a 1969 graduate of
Ross S. Sterling High School, has been
named senior vice president and publisher
for USAToday.com.
Webber formerly was vice president of cir-
culation for USA Today.
Webber joined USA Today as general
manager of the Houston circulation market
in 1985. In 1987, he became general manag-
er of the Boston market. He was named vice
president of circulation in 1990. Webber has
served on several companywide interdepart-
mental teams as well as leading the planning
teams for the 1996 and 1998 Olympic
games.
Prior to coming to USA Today, Webber
worked for the Houston Post for 16 years in
several management positions. He received a
bachelor’s degree in marketing from the Uni-
versity of Houston.
Webber’s father and stepmother, Barney
and Madalene Webber, live in Baytown.
FTC approves sale
of station assets
Exxon Mobil Corp. has announced completion of
the sale of Exxon’s Northeast and Mobil’s Mid-
Atlantic retail service station assets and the related
assignment of supply to Tosco Corp. This action has
received approval of the Federal Trade Commission.
The transaction involves 1,740 service station loca-
tions including Mobil stations from Virginia to New
Jersey, and Exxon stations from New York to Maine.
Under conditions set by the FTC, Tosco has the
right to use the. existing Exxon or Mobil brand in
these states, as well as the products and services
associated with each brand, for at least 10 years.
Tosco will also acquire undeveloped properties
intended for service station use in the Northeast and
Mid-Atlantic regions. Despite these divestitures,
ExxonMobil will retain a significant presence in
that area.
MESOTHELIOMA
The Cancer of The Working Man
ecades ago. hundreds of thousands of workers in chemical plants,
power plants, refineries, shipyards, manufacturing plants, and on construction
sites were exposed to asbestos. This substance rips lives and families apart
by causing lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis. For over twenty
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 108, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 5, 2000, newspaper, March 5, 2000; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020028/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.