Whistleblower: BP Oil Platform Off Louisiana Coast-UNSAFE-Faces 'Present and Imminent Danger'

[kpete]

Published on Saturday, March 17, 2012 by Common Dreams
Whistleblower: BP Oil Platform Faces 'Present and Imminent Danger'
Whistleblower claims about BP's Atlantis filed this week argue against Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's claims platform is safe


A whistleblower who has a standing lawsuit against BP has argued this week that the company's Atlantis Project, located 150 miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico, faces "present and imminent danger."

The whistleblower, Kenneth Abbott, is a former BP contractor on the Atlantis. His lawsuit says that BP failed to keep required records of the safety systems for the Atlantis.


BP Atlantis in 2006 (photo: munchicken)

Back in 2010, Food & Water Watch, which joined Abbott's lawsuit, warned that the massive Deepwater Horizon oil disaster foreshadowed another Gulf of Mexico disaster caused by BP's Atlantis platform. At that time, Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, said, “We have evidence that Atlantis is unsafe and is in danger of creating an even worse spill than the one caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion.”

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2012/03/bp_atlantis_whistleblower_alle.html

[RB TexLa]

1. Excuse me if I don't run out to short BP stock based on this.