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Article

26 Jun 2004

Author:
Philip Thornton, Independent [UK]

Exposed: BP, its pipeline [through Turkey], and an environmental timebomb

The safety of a controversial oil pipeline...has been jeopardised by cost-cutting, incompetence and shoddy workmanship by contractors, whistleblowers have reported...The whistleblowers...say BP made a major mistake in handing control of the section of the 1,000-mile pipeline through Turkey to a government-owned company, Botas, on a fixed-price contract.