has so far issued 312 permits to Trans Mountain through its forests and lands, environment, transportation, agricultural land and oil and gas agencies. government opposes the expanded pipeline, but has said it will continue to issue permits to Trans Mountain if the applications meet the letter of the law and environmental conditions.ī.C. The first is the National Energy Board’s certificate of public convenience and necessity, which Anderson said is “in essence, our licence to commence building.” The NEB is expected to issue that within the week. “Over time, after final permits and land acquisitions are made, we’d work into the Edmonton area and the North Thompson area north of Kamloops would be our next areas.”Īnderson said work should be getting underway by September, but first Trans Mountain has to obtain a number of new approvals, certificates and permits. Photo by JASON REDMOND / AFP/Getty Images
Construction work on the Kinder Morgan Burnaby Terminal and Tank Farm is pictured in Burnaby, British Columbia on June 20, 2019. While Westridge undergoes construction, the actual pipeline will continue to be built west of Edmonton, he said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.We will be complying with the regulator’s directions on this. The planning standards represent the time it could take for us to get fully mobilized in a worst-case scenario, and would include getting outside contractors and equipment onsite. At our terminals, we are ready to respond immediately with people and equipment. “In terms of the directive to reduce the target to assemble people and resources from six to four hours, to be clear, those are our planning standards, not response times. “Trans Mountain’s facilities are designed and operated to industry best practices and meet the most stringent safety standards,” the company said in response to the audit. In 2015, an assessment by the Burnaby Fire Department “found the ability to respond in time ‘questionable,’ and condemned the risks of expanding the number and size of tanks stored on Burnaby Mountain, saying it is too risky to the neighbouring area,” the news story adds. The regulator says it will do its own surprise drill on response times within a year.” ”So far, the company has only completed drills where all staff were aware of them beforehand. So the CER is “ordering the company to do random drills, because the current emergency plans don’t require them to do so,” City News 1130 states. īut Trans Mountain seems not to have received that particular memo. But it isn’t upgrading the existing tanks, “which is like waterproofing one side of your tent”.īeyond the gap in response time, the NEB/CER audit found Trans Mountain violating one of the cardinal rules attached to any emergency response plan: it only works if staff know what to do, and that’s only achieved by practicing, practicing, and practicing again. He added that the tank farm is built into a mountainside in an earthquake zone, so Kinder Morgan has promised to build its new tanks to the highest earthquake-proof standard. “Almost certainly, the conservation forest would go up in flames, so it wouldn’t be a good time to be at Simon Fraser.” “If the tanks are on fire, there’s no escape route,” he said at the time. The assessment must come as no surprise to Gulf Islands-based folk singing legend Bob Bossin, whose 10-minute exposé in May 2018 focused on the acute dangers Burnaby and Simon Fraser University would face if the tank farm caught fire. “The NEB is of the view that a four (4) hour target reflects response requirements and a contingency buffer.” “Although this is a low-probability scenario, the NEB is of the view that the company’s response targets should reflect all fire-related hazards at their terminals,” the audit report stated. “There’s also a possibility the other tanks could also catch fire, as would the surrounding forests, homes, and buildings.” “A boilover could happen if oil heats up and flows over the top of the tank, sending hot and molten crude oil out 10 times the diameter of the tank, covering the entire tank farm, the surrounding communities, Gaglardi Way and Burnaby Mountain Parkway,” the local radio outlet explains.
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