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Название: НОВОСТИ ПРОЕКТА БТД (на англ. яз) Главные Пункты: * Возможно проведение независимого аудита проекта БТД в том случае, если будет доказано, что при его проектировании и строительстве не выполнялись международные стандарты по безопасности. (09.11.2004) Полный Текст НОВОСТИ ПРОЕКТА БТД (на англ. яз) НОВОСТИ ПРОЕКТА БТД (на англ. яз) *** November 07, 2004 BP cover-up set to fuel MPs' wrath Michael Gillard and David Connett BP is on a collision course with a parliamentary inquiry that it has misled over the safety of a strategic international pipeline project backed with ё60m of public money. MPs could demand an independent audit, thereby delaying construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which runs from Azerbaijan through Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. This would leave BP facing a large repair bill and financial penalties under its loan agreements with various parties, including the World Bank. The oil giant is withholding evidence, including confidential laboratory results that cast serious doubt on the project's long-term safety and a secret plan to bury the 1,000-mile oil pipeline without fully testing it for leaks. Internal reports further show BP is suppressing the fact that a row has erupted between its own staff over the cover-up. Operations managers have accused construction engineers of limiting safety inspections to prevent the true scale of the safety flaws from emerging. Unless operations managers certify the pipeline as fit for purpose by the year's end, BP cannot offload the financial liability on to the commercial banks. The revelations come as environmental campaigners and British motorists unite to condemn BP's bumper profits of ё17,000 per minute for the third quarter of 2004, largely due to record oil prices. The BTC pipeline is the result of the "contract of the century" signed 10 years ago between the Azerbaijani government and western oil companies to unlock the former Soviet republic's enormous oil and gas wealth in the Caspian Sea. http://www.timesonline.co.uk Nino Gujaraidze Association "Green Alternative" |