1. Emergency Management

2. Emergency Management Overview for the Young Pipeliners Association of
Canada
August
24th – 25th
2017

3. Presentation Overview
About Emergency Preparedness and Response
How/When to engage EP&R in Major Projects
Interdependencies
Project Examples
I’m here (we are) today to provide a overview of TransCanada’s Emergency Preparedness & Response division. This is meant to be an interactive, informal session. So please ask questions and interject, anything as I present.

4. Emergency Management
TransCanada’s Emergency Management Program applies to all aspects of Emergency Preparedness and Response. It means doing whatever is required to ensure the safety and security of the public, regardless of the cause of the emergency or how it occurred. The purpose of the system is to protect the health, safety or welfare of people, or to limit damage to property, company operations and the environment.
Most everyone has heard of three points of Emergency Management – 1) Safety of People 2) Protection of the Environment and 3) Protection of Organizational Assets.
A fourth can be added – 4) Protection of the Company’s Reputation.

5. TransCanada Emergency Contact Information
Individuals ask …. If I’m required to report an incident, witness an incident, …. What do I do? TransCanada Public Page has the Emergency Contact Information.

6. Control Centre Operations – Calgary
Sophisticated monitoring system
System is monitored 24/7
Controllers operate the pipeline, perform leak detection monitoring and pipeline shut down
Control Centre activates an emergency response
Detects leaks and shuts down pipeline within minutes
How do we operate the pipeline? Via our Control Centre.
Sophisticated monitoring system with thousands of data points sent back to the Control Centre every 5 seconds.
The system monitors for pressure, density, temperature and volumes in and out and any/all of these variables can cause a leak alarm in the Control Centre. If a leak alarm is triggered, the controller must immediately shut the pipeline system down. If an alarm is activated that the controller is uncertain about, the controller has a maximum of 10 minutes to assess that specific alarm and then must shut the pipeline system down. The operators are empowered to shut the pipeline down without approval from more senior personnel.
(if asked, this is why we will not have an Enbridge Kalamazoo spill scenario on our hands. It took Enbridge controllers 17 hours to finally shut the pipeline down fully because they were incorrectly assessed the alarm condition for 17 hours. Our controllers have a max of 10 mins but of course will shut down sooner.)
Control Centre in Calgary Alberta

7. Isolation Points – Motor Operated Valves (MOV)
Remotely monitored and can be closed by Control Centre within minutes
Located along the pipeline, at major water crossings and other sensitive areas as required
Other sensitive area examples – Ducks Unlimited, Fisheries, Aboriginal sacred areas, …

8. Pipeline Safety - Pipeline Warning Signs and Marker Posts
Pipeline location will be marked at a minimum at
Roads
Canals
Railroads
Other areas deemed necessary
Pipeline markers must contain
Emergency Contact numbers for the Pipeline Operator
Product being transported
Company information
Where the pipeline is underground and there are no above ground facilities, this is how you can tell that the pipeline is there. However, the signs don’t show the exact location of the pipeline or how deep underground it is. A TransCanada Representative must locate the pipeline as it can be located anywhere within the right of way. We ask that emergency service agencies be our partner in pipeline safety.
One of our primary hazards is third party strikes for example from an unauthorized/unsupervised excavation. If you see digging on any right of way and no company representative is present, contact the emergency number of the pipeline operator to inform them. If unsure if the company rep is present, call the number anyway. Prevention is our priority and we’d rather get a false alarm than no alarm.

9. Response Preparedness and Transparency
TransCanada’s Approach to Pipeline Safety
Response Preparedness and Transparency
Emergencies are unlikely to happen but we must be prepared for any potential circumstance
We prepare by developing and delivering:
Emergency Response Plans in consultation with communities
Training with our response partners
Internal and external response resource capabilities to a worst case scenario
This is part of why the interdependency – when we consult with the communities we need to know the engineering designs of the project.
Water, muskeg, access to site, hazards, ….

10. What The Regulator Expects
The National Energy Board (NEB) requires pipeline operators to: anticipate, prevent, manage and mitigate conditions that could adversely affect property, the environment or the safety of workers or the public.
The Alberta Energy Regulator AER (AER)
(formerly ERCB) ……
Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) ……
All agencies require companies to minimize impacts and compensate affected parties in the event of an emergency.
Prevention: Federal pipeline regulators require pipeline operators to anticipate, prevent, manage and mitigate potentially dangerous conditions associated with pipelines under their jurisdiction.
Companies must design safety management, environmental protection, emergency management, security management, and integrity programs, which are reviewed and audited by regulators.
Pipeline management is always improving with regular updates to standards and regulations that require operators to systematically inspect and evaluate pipe condition and proactively ensure safe operation.
Preparedness and Response: Federal pipeline regulatory oversight is aimed at preventing incidents from happening. However, if an incident occurs, regulators exercise their authority to protect the public, workers,
property, and the environment. A company’s emergency management program guides response and containment of a spill with appropriate equipment and personnel. Pipeline companies must have internal or contracted spill first-responders, and continually educate them on practices and procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency.
Developing a strategy with industry and Aboriginal communities in an effort to increase Aboriginal Peoples’ participation in pipeline safety operations, including planning, monitoring, incident response and related employment and business opportunities;
NEB: The NEB has authority to order reimbursement of any cleanup costs incurred by governments, communities or individuals;
the ability to provide guidance on the use of the best available technologies used in federally-regulated pipeline projects.  This includes materials, construction methods, and emergency response techniques; and the authority and resources to assume control of incident response if a company is unable or unwilling to do so (i.e. in exceptional circumstances).

11. Emergency Response Planning
Emergency response plans will:
Be developed in consultation with local to federal level government including Aboriginal Communities
Comply with the NEB On-shore Pipeline Regulations and Transport Canada – Canada Shipping Act
Based on the potential worst case discharge and scenarios
Be submitted to the NEB and Transport Canada prior to starting operations
Plans will include the following components:
Notification and activation procedures
Procedures and list of resources
Products and hazards
Detection and mitigation procedures
Response activities and resources
Highly sensitive areas
Incident Command System (ICS) – Unified Command
Notification to local to federal level agencies including aboriginal communities.

12. Planning in Today’s Regulated Environment
Importance of community partners
Partners in pipeline safety
We consult with communities to understand your community and develop an appropriate response capability
Mutual Aid & Response. We foster our mutual beneficial relationships.
Emergency Services will be responding to our incidents. It is important to forge and grow these relationships. We have to know what resources we have in each area we operate in.

13. Response Planning – Geographic/Tactical Plans
Information at minimum
Possible safety hazards
Emergency contacts and First Responder boundaries
Description of site specific sensitivities and protective measures
Containment and recovery strategies and tactics
Equipment requirements
This is an example of Geographic/Tactical Plan. This is in addition to the Emergency Response Plan (ERP) and Fire Incident Pre-Plan (FIP).

14. Emergency Response Planning - Equipment
Company owned spill response equipment will be strategically stored along the pipeline route
Equipment will consist of trailers, booms, skimmers, boats and other equipment used for containment, recovery and storage
Planning for mobilization to location from minutes to within a
6 hour response time.
Retained third party spill response contractor
WCSS Member
Our team assesses where emergency response equipment is required and is strategically placed. 14

15. Spill Preparedness Training & Exercises
Incident Command System (ICS)
Table Top Exercises
Full Scale Exercises
Deployment Exercises
Worst Case Discharge
Hazwoper Training
Boat Handling Training
Oil Spill Response Training (First Responder)
Variety of web-based
Some of TransCanada’s Trained responders are engineers. Hazwoper is how to respond safely to oil spills for our internal personnel.

16. Spill Preparedness Training & Exercises
Joint Training & Exercises
Some of TransCanada’s Trained responders are engineers. Hazwoper is how to respond safely to oil spills for our internal personnel.

17. Emergency Response Teams/Structure
TransCanada adopts a multi-tiered response
structure and teams
Incident Management Team will include Unified Command and Stakeholders
Tactical responders will be comprised of Company personnel, contractors and response agencies
Regional and Corporate Emergency Operation Centres (EOC) are established
The purpose of this slide is to give a sense of the amount of resources we use to respond and that it is multi-faceted – from tactical activities, to management activities in the ICP, to support activities in the EOCs.

18. Planning in Today’s Regulated Environment
Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) Emergency Response Initiatives:
Industry Mutual Emergency Assistance Agreement (MEAA) (Dec 2013)
During a significant emergency situation, CEPA member companies can call upon each other to share additional resources
Industry Joint Emergency Response Functional Exercise (Sept. 24, 2014)
Exercise to test capabilities of member participants to respond to an emergency when the MEAA is activated
CEPA – allows oil companies from across Canada to share lessons learned and collaborate on industry improvements. The MEAA is a significant step forward for the pipeline industry in Canada and increases every companies ability to effectively respond to potential spills.

19. Procedures in the event of an oil spill
Shut down the pipeline and valves, isolating pipeline segments
Confirm that appropriate emergency services and community officials are notified and involved and provided with the appropriate MSDS
Ensure employees, contractors and equipment are dispatched
Establish and activate required facilities such as an Incident Command Post and Emergency Operations Centres
Assess and monitor hazards
Contain and recover oil
Consult with local to federal authorities
Keep the community informed of emergency response activities
Take on role as Responsible Party
includes providing the MSDS
Unified Command – Joint Decision making.

20. How/When to Engage EP&R in Major Projects
EP&R should be engaged in the Business Development and Proposal stage of a major project
EP&R costs can be more than expected
Engineering designs must comply with EP&R governance
(i.e. fire suppression requirements)
Commercial Agreements
Plans and public consultation need to commence early – in some cases before permits are granted
Design Reviews
CAPEX, OPEX, ERPs, GRPs, FIPs, Regulatory Bodies (NEB, AER, PHMSA) – E.g.. Facility Design – EP&R is involved in Fire Suppression design.

21. Interdependencies EP&R Tasks: Intelligent Valve placement
Site selection (i.e. pump stations)/pipeline route
OPEX/CAPEX Budgets
Design Review, HAZOP/HAZID
Fire Suppression
Emergency Response Planning
Project Application
Hearings
Stakeholder Consultations
Construction/contractor plans
Project Transfer Memorandum & Officer Sign Offs
Commissioning Emergency Response Plan
Procure equipment
Valve placement – multi-disciplinary team to optimize valve locations in order to minimize risks and impacts: assess spill volumes, response capability, risks, receptor (sensitivity such as drinking water intake), etc.
Emergency Response Planning – outflow analysis, trajectory modeling, etc. and please note: Emergency Planning Zones are NOT calculated for liquid lines.

22. Project Examples: Emergency Response Planning
Engineering and Environment were responsible for developing this for use in emergency response planning.

23. Intelligent Valve Placement
EP&R role: assess spill volumes, response capability, risks, receptor (sensitivity such as drinking water intake), etc. – will ask for valves to be moved and change valve types i.e.. From check valve to motor operated valve.

24. Summary Highlights TransCanada takes full responsibility for
TransCanada will develop Emergency Response Plans
Specialized oil spill equipment will be procured and stored strategically along pipeline system
Trained responders are on-call 24/7 and include TransCanada personnel and contractors
TransCanada takes full responsibility for
Emergency Response & Clean-up

25. Questions & Comments