Private Power Company PE Legislative Testimony Objectivity
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/114#Private_Power_Company_PE_Legislative_Testimony_Objectivity
Properties
Instance of
EngineerPublicTestimonyNSPECodeConformanceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EngineerPublicTestimonyNSPECodeConformanceObligation
Case context
State legislature hearings on bills involving water supply, flood control, and electric power production; PE represents private power company's preferred solution of one high dam.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Private Power Company PE (Legislative Witness)
Obligation statement
The private power company PE was obligated to testify before the state legislative committee in a manner fully consistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics, grounding testimony in engineering analysis rather than pure client advocacy, and presenting the one-high-dam position with objectivity and professional integrity.
Temporal scope
During and throughout the legislative committee hearing testimony
Relationships
competesWith
Private Power Company PE Competing Public Goods Balanced Advisory, Private Power Company PE Good Faith Sincerity Sufficiency, Private Power Company PE Honest Technical Disagreement Non-Violation
defeasibleUnder
Private Power Company Engineer Legislative Testimony
derivedFromPrinciple
Engineer Public Testimony Role — Legislative Infrastructure Hearing
Source Evidence
Source text
Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam
Text references
Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam
TTL
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case114:Private_Power_Company_PE_Legislative_Testimony_Objectivity a proeth:EngineerPublicTestimonyNSPECodeConformanceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Private Power Company PE Legislative Testimony Objectivity" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case114:Private_Power_Company_PE_Competing_Public_Goods_Balanced_Advisory,
case114:Private_Power_Company_PE_Good_Faith_Sincerity_Sufficiency,
case114:Private_Power_Company_PE_Honest_Technical_Disagreement_Non-Violation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case114:Private_Power_Company_Engineer_Legislative_Testimony ;
proeth:casecontext "State legislature hearings on bills involving water supply, flood control, and electric power production; PE represents private power company's preferred solution of one high dam." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/114#Engineer_Public_Testimony_Role_—_Legislative_Infrastructure_Hearing> ;
proeth:discoveredincase "114" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T15:22:08.323408+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "114" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T15:22:08.323408+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Private Power Company PE (Legislative Witness)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Engineer Public Testimony NSPE Code Conformance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The private power company PE was obligated to testify before the state legislative committee in a manner fully consistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics, grounding testimony in engineering analysis rather than pure client advocacy, and presenting the one-high-dam position with objectivity and professional integrity." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam" ;
proeth:temporalscope "During and throughout the legislative committee hearing testimony" ;
proeth:textreferences "Another professional engineer, representing a private power company, testifies that his engineering analysis indicates a more effective and less expensive solution, producing the same results, by using one high dam" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 114 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T15:38:37.736514"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 114 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
114
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T15:22:08.323408+00:00
First case
114
Generated
2026-03-02T15:22:08.323408+00:00
Attributed to
Case 114 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T15:38:37.736514
Generated by
ProEthica Case 114 Extraction