14 DAY TRIAL // Towards the beginning of this year's February, an explosion occurred at a natural gas drilling site in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States.
In the aftermath of this incident, energy company Chevron saw fit to apologize to people living in the drilling site's proximity, who were badly shaken up by the explosion, by offering them coupons for pizza and a 2-liter bottle of soda.
Not at all surprisingly, it would appear that the people affected by the explosion did not share the company's opinion that free pizza and soda could count as an apology.
What's more, they did not hesitate to let Chevron know just what they thought about its decision to hand out pizza coupons as a sign of remorse.
Eco Watch tells us that, just yesterday, hundreds of people living in the area affected by the explosion, together with concerned citizens and members of green-oriented organizations, either gave a call to or emailed James Watson, Chevron's CEO, to place pizza orders.
Besides, thousands of petition signatures were delivered to Chevron's Smithfield, PA, office in a pizza box, the same source details.
Looking to make sure that the energy company gets their message, the people who delivered these signatures had a 2-liter bottle of soda accompany the pizza box to Chevron's office.
Lastly, dozens of pizza orders were placed on Chevron's social media pages.
Karen Feridun with green group Berks Gas Truth, who helped organize this series of protests against energy company Chevron and its fairly peculiar and rather inconsiderate way of apologizing, admitted that, “I’ve never seen a response like this.”
“People jumped at the chance to show Chevron their disgust at its wholly inadequate and inappropriate response,” the environmentalist further detailed.
“If Chevron is really so insensitive as to think pizza can make everything better - even the death of one of their own employees and a threat to an entire town - we needed a special delivery to get their attention,” added Jesse Bacon with Environmental Action Pennsylvania.
For the time being, there is no news concerning how Chevron responded to this unexpected lesson on how to properly make an apology.