From: Inside Climate News
By Mike De Souza
Email suggests TransCanada sought to sap the credibility of a former employee
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Evan Vokes, a fomer TransCanada engineer, has publicly accused the Canadian pipeline operator of trying to avoid costly repairs and inspections. Now a newly released internal email suggests that TransCanada tried to undermine Vokes' credibility as it sought approval for its controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Image: pipe section from the Keystone XL southern leg/Credit: Public Citizen |
A newly released internal e-mail from TransCanada Corp. is raising
fresh questions about whether its managers attempted to undermine the
credibility of a former employee who questioned the company's commitment
to safety, describing him as "disgruntled."
The email is the latest in a collection of thousands of pages of
records released by the former employee, engineer Evan Vokes, who has
been at the center of a dispute over the safety of TransCanada's
operations in Canada. The emails also touch on TransCanada's record in
the United States, where it hopes to build the multibillion-dollar
Keystone XL pipeline project. Another TransCanada pipeline, which runs
from Alberta, Canada to Cushing, Okla. and is known simply as the
Keystone, has been plagued by at least 35 leaks or other incidents in
the U.S. and Canada since it opened in June 2010.
The records Vokes released document internal safety concerns raised
within the Alberta-based energy company, along with the responses from
management. Vokes worked at TransCanada for five years, specializing in
"non-destructive" examination, which uses tools or visual inspections of
the infrastructure without damaging the pipeline. MORE
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