Industry Consulting Relationship Affirmative Disclosure Engineer A Coal Bed Methane Clients
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/145#Industry_Consulting_Relationship_Affirmative_Disclosure_Engineer_A_Coal_Bed_Methane_Clients
Properties
Instance of
IndustryConsultingRelationshipAffirmativeDisclosureinRegulatoryTestimonyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#IndustryConsultingRelationshipAffirmativeDisclosureinRegulatoryTestimonyObligation
Case context
Engineer A testified on proposed rules for coal bed methane discharge permits while providing consulting services primarily for coal bed methane companies, but never disclosed these ongoing industry consulting relationships during his testimony.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to affirmatively disclose to the State Y Environmental Quality Council that he provides consulting services primarily for coal bed methane companies — the same industry whose discharge permits were the subject of the hearing — so that the regulatory body could assess his objectivity and the weight to be given his testimony.
Temporal scope
At the outset of testimony before the State Y Environmental Quality Council
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A Undisclosed Private Retainer in Regulatory Testimony
Source Evidence
Source text
Although Engineer A also provides consulting services, primarily for coal bed methane companies, Engineer A never stated in his testimony that he works for coal bed methane companies.
Text references
Although Engineer A also provides consulting services, primarily for coal bed methane companies, Engineer A never stated in his testimony that he works for coal bed methane companies.
Engineer A was retained to testify by a coal bed methane company.
TTL
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proeth:casecontext "Engineer A testified on proposed rules for coal bed methane discharge permits while providing consulting services primarily for coal bed methane companies, but never disclosed these ongoing industry consulting relationships during his testimony." ;
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case145:Transparency_Principle_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Concealed_Compensation ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to affirmatively disclose to the State Y Environmental Quality Council that he provides consulting services primarily for coal bed methane companies — the same industry whose discharge permits were the subject of the hearing — so that the regulatory body could assess his objectivity and the weight to be given his testimony." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Although Engineer A also provides consulting services, primarily for coal bed methane companies, Engineer A never stated in his testimony that he works for coal bed methane companies." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the outset of testimony before the State Y Environmental Quality Council" ;
proeth:textreferences "Although Engineer A also provides consulting services, primarily for coal bed methane companies, Engineer A never stated in his testimony that he works for coal bed methane companies.",
"Engineer A was retained to testify by a coal bed methane company." ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
145
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T18:16:18.109053+00:00
First case
145
Generated
2026-02-28T18:16:18.109053+00:00
Attributed to
Case 145 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T18:32:03.186888
Generated by
ProEthica Case 145 Extraction