LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Piper Alpha disaster report

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference; Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:05

Description

Helen Costello reports for LBC Newstalk Breakfast from Aberdeen on the Lord Cullen report into the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster and its recommendations, and whether Occidental Petroleum should be prosecuted. Includes speech by Frank Dobson, Labour MP; interview with David Burnside, lawyer for victims and relatives; press conference with Occidental Petroleum UK President Glenn Shurtz who says many recommendations had already been implemented.

Contributors

Frank Dobson; David Burnside; Helen Costello; Glenn Shurtz

Keywords

Deaths; Reports; Fires; Industrial accidents; Safety; Oil extraction; North Sea; Petroleum industry; Aberdeen; Piper Alpha; Occidental Petroleum; Lord Cullen

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