Documents, Employees Reveal BP's Alaska Oilfield Plagued By Major Safety Issues

[Joanne98]

Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess.

According to internal BP documents obtained by Truthout, and after interviewing more than a dozen employees over the past month, the Prudhoe Bay oil field, in a remote corner of North America on Alaska's north shore, is in danger.

After two serious oil spills and other mishaps, the BP employees fingered a long list of safety issues that have not been adequately addressed, making the Prudhoe Bay oilfield vulnerable to a devastating accident that potentially could rival the havoc in the Gulf.

"The condition of the field is a lot worse and in my opinion a lot more dangerous," said Marc Kovac, who has worked for BP on Alaska's North Slope for more than three decades. "We still have hundreds of miles of rotting pipe ready to break that needs to be replaced. We are totally unprepared for a large spill."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/EXCLUSIVE-Documents-Empl-by-Jason-Leopold-100615-963.html

I guess that good for nothing, pathological liar Sarah Palin let the oil companies do whatever they wanted too.

[Demeter]

1. Surprise! Surprise!

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