Forum Post: Whistleblowers: Software Monitoring Keystone XL Pipeline's Safety Contains Deliberate Errors
Posted 12 years ago on Feb. 2, 2012, 7:14 a.m. EST by ironboltbruce
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Whistleblowers: Software Monitoring Keystone XL Pipeline's Safety Contains Deliberate Errors:
Pig Man No. 1's story was corroborated by another member of the software team, too scared to come on camera, even in shadow, following a threat by the industry contractor hired by BP and other majors to design the software.
"Dispatches" provided the information to BP, which said it complied with all rules and regulations.
That's a reasonable alibi for BP, except that one of the nation's premier public-interest lawyers doesn't buy it. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dean of environmental law studies at Pace University in New York notes that "the dog didn't bark," that is, when the Trans-Alaska pipeline burst and then exploded, when pipes cracked in Yellowstone National Park and underneath homes in California, the companies didn't turn around and sue their software contractor for failures which costs millions of dollars in fines - and several lives.
There is no reason for this. NONE.