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In reply to the discussion: TEPCO Rose [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)6. Her hiring may be a PR move of the first stank rather than as a professional fixer-upper.
She has Creds, coupled with a photo-op or two and Japan and the world will be safe for nuclear power again.
What someone named Sickputer found:
Sickputer
February 16, 2013 at 9:20 pm Log in to Reply
Her track record has not always been so cheery:
April 23, 2010
"WASHINGTONMassey Energy Co., owner of a coal mine where 29 workers were killed this month, on Monday said that the board member responsible for governance had resigned because of the demands of "other ongoing business activities."
Lady Barbara Thomas Judge's resignation, effective immediately, comes amid growing criticism of the management of the Richmond, Virginia, company. For months, shareholders had complained that Lady Judge was unable to devote enough time to the job because she served on too many corporate boards. The complaints about Massey's corporate governance intensified after a coal-mine explosion two weeks ago that was the deadliest in 40 years."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757504575195070711065984.html
Another article in 2007:
"But questions remain. Why does Lady Judge need so many jobs? How did she land her role at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, when she had no relevant experience? Is it relevant that a female friend was on the selection panel?
Lady Judge bristles. She points out that, as a lawyer, it is her job to master a subject about which she is initially ignorant. To prepare for her role at the Atomic Energy Authority, she even studied her son's physics books. She also has a strategic business role, which she is well equipped to carry out.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452635/Is-best-connected-woman-Britain
"She may be the best connected woman in Britain." Great work, there. Information.
What someone named Sickputer found:
Sickputer
February 16, 2013 at 9:20 pm Log in to Reply
Her track record has not always been so cheery:
April 23, 2010
"WASHINGTONMassey Energy Co., owner of a coal mine where 29 workers were killed this month, on Monday said that the board member responsible for governance had resigned because of the demands of "other ongoing business activities."
Lady Barbara Thomas Judge's resignation, effective immediately, comes amid growing criticism of the management of the Richmond, Virginia, company. For months, shareholders had complained that Lady Judge was unable to devote enough time to the job because she served on too many corporate boards. The complaints about Massey's corporate governance intensified after a coal-mine explosion two weeks ago that was the deadliest in 40 years."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757504575195070711065984.html
Another article in 2007:
"But questions remain. Why does Lady Judge need so many jobs? How did she land her role at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, when she had no relevant experience? Is it relevant that a female friend was on the selection panel?
Lady Judge bristles. She points out that, as a lawyer, it is her job to master a subject about which she is initially ignorant. To prepare for her role at the Atomic Energy Authority, she even studied her son's physics books. She also has a strategic business role, which she is well equipped to carry out.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452635/Is-best-connected-woman-Britain
"She may be the best connected woman in Britain." Great work, there. Information.
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Lady Barbara Judge is the subject of the post. Do you have anything to add about her?
Octafish
Feb 2013
#13
She's not suggesting they are thinking about re-starting parts of the Dai-ichi plant is she?
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2013
#5
Her hiring may be a PR move of the first stank rather than as a professional fixer-upper.
Octafish
Feb 2013
#6
That paper was published in 2002. It's a good bet there's a lot more plutonium now.
Octafish
Feb 2013
#14