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Trinidad & Tobago: PETROTRIN dismisses 6 in connection to recent oil spills
“Twelve were initially suspended. Of those 12, six were found to have a lesser level of culpability and 6 were found to have a very high degree of culpability. And, for those 6 where the level of culpability weighed very heavily, those 6 were issued letters of termination from employment at PETROTRIN.”
According to Hassanali, PETROTRIN welcomes other investigations regarding the oil spill since the company was always “open to scrutiny.”
Meanwhile, the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) recently called for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to provide all of the records and documentary evidence it had relating to the recent oil spills.
“We in the OWTU, we are very concerned about the consequence of those oil spills and we are concerned that the management, in their desperate attempt to cover up the real cause, the root cause of those oil spills, we are very concerned that the real issues will not come out, and if those issues are not brought to the fore then the national oil company is in great danger of having re-occurrences and so on in the future,” said OWTU president-general Ancel Roget.
“If PETROTRIN goes down, then the people of Trinidad & Tobago will lose and therefore we felt that it is our responsibility to not sit idly by and allow the management and the board of directors with its chairman peddle a lot of misinformation to the public in general and of course to their bosses in the Cabinet,” Roget added. -(CMC)
