1. Pipeline Safety
Date

2. Safe and Efficient Energy Highways
Move 1.2 billion barrels of crude and refined products and 5.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas each year
Pipeline are underground and safe
The safest and only feasible means of transporting vast quantities of crude and natural gas over land
Inherently safer than other modes of transportation
Ruptures on pipelines are rare and declining
Pipeline integrity programs
Advanced technologies for monitoring and maintenance
No public fatalities in more than a decade

3. Historical Pipeline Ruptures
Source: NEB

4. Pipeline Monitoring and Maintenance
24/7 monitoring at remote control centres using sophisticated computerized sensing and control systems
Equipped with automated leak detection alarms and shut-down devices
Regular visual surveys of pipelines by aerial and ground patrols
Sophisticated “in-line” inspection tools (pigs) inspect the inside of pipes to identify changes
Maintenance
Preventative maintenance programs including constant pipeline excavations and repairs

5. Emergency Response
Immediately activate emergency response plans once a problem is identified at the control centre
Dispatch crews emergency services
Confirm, pinpoint and secure the area of an incident
Ensure the public is out of harm’s way
Respond immediately to pipeline leaks, using the best available technologies to restore pipeline systems and the environment

6. External Damage: Growing Safety Risk
Activity within close proximity to pipeline poses greatest risk to public safety
In US third party interference accounts for 16% of incidents but 31% of fatalities
Increased education and patrols are essential, but activity on the ground is largely beyond the control of operating companies
Missing critical elements to effective regulatory enforcement

7. Unauthorized Activities on Right of Way
Source: NEB

8. Effective Damage Prevention Program
Our damage prevention programs in Canada are missing three key elements:
Mandatory One-Call System
Universal One-Call 3-Digit Number
Civil Enforcement Matrix

9. Damage Prevention Regulations
Canada needs a comprehensive approach to damage prevention enforcement
Goal: to reduce the number of unauthorized activities across pipeline easements
This should include a system of graduated penalties to coincide with increasing levels of offence
CEPA is seeking amendments to existing legislation to allow for a graduated civil penalty matrix
To encourage behavourial change for those who chose to ignore existing requirements over pipeline right of ways

10. Canadian Energy Pipeline Association
For more information please contact:
Brenda Kenny
President & CEO
Canadian Energy Pipeline Association
Suite 1860, th Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2P 2V7
Tel: (403) Fax: (403)

11. Appendix

12. CEPA Members