Three LyondellBasell Sites Earn Awards
June 10, 2011
HOUSTON, June 10, 2011 -- Three LyondellBasell facilities have been recognized for excellence in communications to community, emergency response, security and pollution prevention by earning ‘Caring for Texas’ Awards from the Texas Chemical Council (TCC).
LyondellBasell’s La Porte Complex earned an ‘Excellence in Caring for Texas’ and the Bayport Choate and Bayport Underwood plants in Pasadena each earned ‘Caring for Texas’ awards. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Galveston on June 9.
“We are honored to receive these awards and very proud of our employees who work diligently to put safety and good environmental performance first for our community and each other,” said Doug Mathera, LyondellBasell Bayport Choate site manager and TCC Executive Board member. “Our community is very important to us and we meet throughout the year with our citizens’ advisory panels and take part in local organizations.”
The Caring for Texas program is sponsored by TCC to recognize petrochemical facilities’ exemplary achievements in plant operation categories, and commitment to their employees and surrounding communities. Caring for Texas award applications are reviewed by a combination of community leaders and industry representatives across the state. To qualify for an application review, petrochemical sites must have operated the year without an environmental or safety event that impacted the community, engaged in community outreach activities, made available its environmental and safety performance reporting system to the community, had no fatalities and be a TCC member in good standing.
La Porte and Bayport Underwood are operated by Equistar Chemicals, LP and Bayport Choate is operated by Lyondell Chemical Company, both subsidiaries of LyondellBasell.
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