Thursday, June 14, 2007

BP explosion report ‘toned down’


BP’s internal investigator admitted in sworn testimony released on Monday that his final draft report on the UK company’s management responsibility for the 2005 Texas refinery explosion was toned down.

Wilhelm Bonse-Geuking, BP’s European refining group vice-president, was charged with leading a team to determine management responsibility for the explosion, which killed 15 and injured 500 in the biggest US industrial accident in a decade.

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