Activist and actor Jane Fonda criticised ExxonMobil’s environmental record at a fundraiser the oil company sponsored earlier this month.
In response, the US company’s Baton Rouge arm released a social media post that largely diverted from Fonda’s barbs but also criticized “negative remarks” from the “out-of-town guest speaker.”
According to TheAdvocate.Com of Baton Rouge, the Facebook post, which did not mention Fonda by name, mostly praised Barbara Beckmann, a 60-year ExxonMobil employee who was honoured at the YWCA Greater Baton Rouge fundraiser that the oil company sponsored. However, it made a passing reference to Fonda’s attacks on the company’s environmental footprint.