Alyeska, Federal Regulators Probing Employee’s Cover-Up Claims Related to May Oil Spill By Jason Leopold, truthout.org ~Tank 190 is surrounded by a containment area that has an impermeable liner. (Photo: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company) An Alyeska Pipeline Service Company employee who has an engineering background filed complaints with federal regulators and BP’s Office of the [...]

By Jason Leopold -  Investigative Reporter,  Truthout Jason will be a guest on today’s Shannyn Moore Show. Stream here. Alyeska Pipeline, the BP-led consortium that operates the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), has implemented deep budget cuts, deferred work on a number of important maintenance and upgrade projects, failed to study how relocating engineers [...]

Sorry, no creativity points for Kevin Hostler.   At the wee hours of the morning, on a Wednesday, for no particular reason, the CEO of Alyeska Pipeline decided he needed to return to Houston to ”spend more time with his family.”  Houston… now he’s your problem.  Of course, it’s an absolute coincidence that Jason Leopold of Truthout [...]

**UPDATE – Jason Leopold will appear today at 11:30am Alaska time (12:30pm Pacific 3:30pm Eastern) on The Shannyn Moore Show on KUDO 1080am to discuss these developments. You can live stream the broadcast HERE. By Jason Leopold According to employees, Kevin Hostler, the chief executive officer of Alyeska Pipeline, informed staff of his resignation Wednesday [...]

Alyeska Pipeline CEO Kevin Hostler. (Photo: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company) Dangerous Cost Cuts at Alyeska Pipeline – “Just Another Example of How BP Runs Things” By Jason Leopold originally published at Truthout.org Over the past several months, Alyeska Pipeline and the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Hostler, have been under intense scrutiny by a Congressional [...]