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Update: Association may review delay in equipping workers with escape breathing devices  
The Telegram
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) told the offshore helicopter inquiry today its members made a decision in 2004 to adopt escape breathing devices for workers.
During questioning by Randell Earle, the lawyer representing unionized offshore workers, CAPP’s Atlantic Canada manager Paul Barnes said that decision wasn’t final. CAPP members still had concerns about the medical risks to workers during training on the use of compressed air cylinders.
When CAPP received a March 2007 letter from the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board asking for an update on the breathing devices, the industry said it would equip every offshore worker with compressed air cylinders by the end of that year.
The equipment was made available in May of this year.
Earle asked whether or not CAPP has reviewed why it took so long to implement the breathing devices.
Barnes said the association had not done such a review, but may consider doing so.
CAPP represents 130 oil and gas companies in Canada, including those operating the Hibernia and Terra Nova oilfields. Husky Energy, which operates White Rose, is not a member.
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Welder from NL writes: Gee, ya think?
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Graham from NL writes: USD$75,000 a second is the profit Big Oil makes. Loss of life is the cost of business to a CEO sitting in a comfy chair counting USD$30M Xmas bonuses.
Any changes coming out of this enquiry will be simply a PR campaign. Nothing more.
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