By: John Suter

John Suter — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:09:16 +0000

I would like to note that in the recent investigations of the North Slope BP oil pipe line leaks that employees have spoken out on the leaks years before they happened. A friend of mine who is now retired from BP was an engineer and made a report showing the needs of corrosion maintenance for the pipes so that they would not spring leaks. What came out of it was in a sense, say it again and you will be fired. So, the engineers turned and looked the other way on the needs of corrosion reports and maintenance. The bottom line is that if there is no whistle blower protection for the employees who know what is going on and could report what is needed to prevent leaks of the pipe line, then they will not report them and the pipe will have more leaks at a later time. No one is going to report what is needed and be fired later for doing so. So the choice is to provide whistle blower protection or have more leaks in the future

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By: John Suter