Five years ago
“I was sitting in my kitchen doing some work at my table when a fireman came to my door and told me I had to evacuate because there was an oil spill,” she said of the July 2007 rupture. “I didn’t know what that meant, it didn’t mean anything to me.”
About 250,000 litres of crude leaked into the community after a road crew’s excavator hit the pipeline. 70,000 litres flowed into Burrard Inlet. The cleanup cost roughly $15 million and 250 residents were evacuated.
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said residents near the spill on Inlet Drive are still traumatized, and many have become vocal critics of the pipeline expansion. - Vancouver Sun
Public Official Identified Site Survey
In compliance with our Integrity Management Program, Kinder Morgan regularly contacts public officials to ask for their help identifying potential natural gas pipeline High Consequence Area (HCA) locations.
HCAs typically include areas of high population density and congregation. The information you provide will be used to supplement our current HCA records.
Are you on Kinder Morgan/Enbridge list of contacts in case of emergencies?
Do they share that list with anyone?
Conservative Party of Canada?
BC Liberals?
Does City Hall have copies that are available to the Public?
When identifying a site as a potential HCA one or more of the following criteria must be met:
- An outside area that is occupied by twenty (20) or more persons on at least fifty (50) days in any twelve (12) months (the days need not be consecutive). Examples include playgrounds, recreational facilities, camping grounds, outdoor theatres, stadiums, recreational areas near a body of water or areas outside a rural building such as a religious facility.
- A building that is occupied by twenty (20) or more persons on at least five (5) days a week for ten (10) weeks in any twelve month period. The days and weeks need not be consecutive. Examples include religious facilities, office buildings, community centers, general stores, 4-H facilities or bowling alleys.
- A facility occupied by persons who are confined, are of impaired mobility, or would be difficult to evacuate. Examples include hospitals, prisons, schools, day-care facilities, retirement facilities or assisted-living facilities.
If you have a Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in your community and know of locations in your community that meet the criteria listed above, please submit names and addresses using the following link.
Submit Identified Site Information
As it turns out the Form requires your State and ZIP code, AND no mention that your information will be reviewed under the Patriot Act.
