Associated Press
Report says EPA probing allegations by employees of energy giant
LONDON – British oil company BP on Monday denied allegations that it manipulated data from inspections of Alaska pipelines that were partially shut down earlier this month because of corrosion problems.
The Financial Times reported that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was probing allegations by BP workers that the company manipulated data to avoid replacing pipelines in the Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, oil field.
Robert Wine, a BP spokesman in London, said the company has been working with the Department of Transportation and the EPA since it notified them of the original leak two weeks ago. BP would provide any information requested by the investigators, Wine said, and referred other questions to BP’s operation in Alaska.
Alaska Attorney General David Marquez told a special hearing of the state Legislature being held in Anchorage on Friday that the state had served subpoenas to BP and other Prudhoe Bay leaseholders to preserve all documents related to the Aug. 6 event and pipeline corrosion dating to 1996.
The Financial Times quoted unidentified workers as claiming that BP inspected more areas of known good pipe than bad, creating the impression that the pipeline was in better shape than it really was.
Days after the shutdown, the Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ordered the company to conduct more rigorous tests on the so-called transit pipelines, which carry market-ready oil to the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline.
Acting U.S. Transportation Secretary Maria Cino toured BP’s facilities in Alaska on Friday and said she was surprised and disappointed by what she had seen of the company’s maintenance procedures.
“When we look at other operators, this problem has not been found,” Cino said. “I think this problem is unique to BP.”
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
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