i�Xo���Al�O�N��aw�n�Iﾽ��X��z3����XW�f(A9��Ќ�z �3��)p��-w��_\\d��ه�54*�^�/՝�2��=v_V�ok�vm�}FT�Z&�Gs��-�4�o�I]� Evidence from the National Energy Board (neb) pipeline incident reports reveals a track record of thousands of spills totalling millions of litres of oil across the country. | Climate Zone, ActiveHistory.ca is supported financially and administratively by the. 1 0 obj Global News has made a very substantial contribution to the study of the history of oil pipeline spills in Alberta. Number of Alberta Pipeline Incidents and Volume of Releases, 2013-2014. �g�JP���?��L�b�,l���Lͯ�4]R�y�_ɧ1��C���������L7�����AQv�8�[0��N�/ ���=B�-y��c(?�e����?63��8���H K,�ȶ�2��6p�X� ;���#^P�J&f��٤\;��r���όʆ��#�v��� �/6��U w�d~XH9_��ڏX����r��L�1��>zhF��|�(��?���%��"����n%�h�w8�f=�/��uh������_�I1?$���ůS��fY��b�J�vt��+�4B2ɦ���R����EhV���*,����������բ�����xy�Z_NIѬU�BV.�jV�*i��r�p�SB4kEx���v ���r��}�ؤ����Y%��P�Չ�Y'�d,"�9faBv|��)I���N�^��Ѭu2��n��S4�F����� jurisdiction,” Interprovincial Pipe Line Company, National Energy Board Library, TN 879.5/C16, p. 1 of 30. 3 0 obj A partial list of major spills follows Table 1 illustrating a track record of pervasive, systemic environmental and safety issues. As the Auditor General of Alberta noted in a report on pipeline safety and regulation last March, “Not all incidents have equal impact.”. — May 6, 2015: A 109-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe crude oil train derails near Heimdal, North Dakota. Leaks and spills have been endemic on long-distance oil pipelines in Canada since the mid-twentieth century. For example, the Interprovincial Pipeline reported 16 separate incidents that resulted in uncontrolled spillage of more than 1 million litres of liquid hydrocarbons between 1962 and 1996, almost one such incident every two years. The Canadian government is modernizing and improving its management of marine safety in response to the growth of overseas trade and the movement of... Western Canada. [2] Energy Resources Conservation Board, “ST57-2013 Field Surveillance and Operations Branch – Field Operations Provincial Summary 2012” (Calgary: June 2013), 9. The expected spill rates (spills per year) are calculated by multiplying (1) the tonnage of oil loaded and unloaded at Canadian ports by (2) spill frequencies (spills per tonnes moved) derived from historical statistics. In 2013, Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) — the provincial regulator of oil pipelines within the borders of the province — published an analysis of pipeline performance from 1990 to 2012. By Sean Kheraj. The National Oil Spill Preparedness and Response Regime provides the framework for preparedness and response for ship-source oil spills in Canadian waters south of the 60th parallel. [6] “Pipeline related incidents under N.E.B. — March 7, 2015: A 94-car Canadian National Railway crude oil train derailed about 3 miles outside the northern Ontario town of Gogama. Technological improvements have helped mitigate that risk, but as the Nexen spill and many others in the past have shown, technology cannot prevent all circumstances that lead to on-shore oil spills. The data in Table 1 and the accompanying partial list support our charges of repeated willful, reckless behavior, Oil is an environmentally hazardous material and, as such, its transportation creates risk. Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land. These conduits for the movement of oil and natural gas unlocked Canada’s transition to a new energy regime in the second half of the twentieth century that saw the country become one of the world’s highest per capita consumers of high-energy fossil fuels. Still, numerous large-scale oil spills have occurred in the past with considerable frequency. <> The accident was 23 miles from the Feb. 14 derailment. Canada produces more oil than it consumes and as a result, is a significant net exporter of crude oil. The top nine most destructive oil spills are listed below. Canada from 1996 through 2014 of well over 1000 spills and approaching one billion gallons. There were 23 spills of either refined petroleum products or crude oil in Quebec from 2004 to 2017, the report stated. In 2019, Canada was the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S., accounting for 48% of total U.S. crude oil imports and for 22% of U.S. refinery crude oil intake. These overviews are not situation reports, but summaries about the incident location, scale, cause, response actions, and environmental impacts. The CCG managed the response and clean-up operation with support from key partners, including Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC), other federal departments, other levels of government and non-governmental … It’s a monotonous job — few leaks are found.” After walking more than 800 miles on the job, Dick Caws, one of the “pipeline walkers,” confessed, “The funny thing about my job is that I’m supposed to be looking for oil leaks, but since I started last October 1 I haven’t found one.”[1] Sixty-five years later, a contractor discovered one of the largest leaks on an oil pipeline in Canadian history, using the same method of detection. Sean Kheraj is an associate professor of Canadian and environmental history at York University. Below is a list of the major oil tanker spills since 1970 from ITOPF’s database: 2007: Hebei Spirit off South Korea – 11,000 tonnes. <>/Metadata 155 0 R/ViewerPreferences 156 0 R>> In 1980, a pipeline operated by Pembina Pipeline Corporation ruptured and spilled an estimated 6.5 million litres of crude oil east of Valleyview, Alberta. William H. Willis, Governor of Vermont State and Hon. Less than one month later, a section of Line 3 failed again during a pressure test, spilling 2,544,000 litres of crude oil. However, inhaling hydrocarbons or ingesting oil when they groom themselves can damage their lungs, cause ulcers, and result in liver and kidney damage. ͪQ'����NhV��6�j�ݬ5���|a���Y9�в��Q�� As I told Bill Tieleman in a interview in The Tyee nearly three years ago, there is no leak-proof oil pipeline system. A day’s work was long, exhausting, and ultimately fruitless. When considering pipeline incidents in the recent past, the evidence is still sobering. Below is a list of OSROs on contract with OSPR. Source: Library and Archives Canada, WRM 1054. [2] Those companies also built Canada’s first long-distance pipelines for the delivery of Alberta crude and natural gas to urban industrial markets in Vancouver, central Canada, and parts of the US. A growing list of oil spills in Canada and the United States July 21st, 2016: The Husky Oil spill, Saskatchewan Last week, on July 21st, a pipeline leak spilled as much as 1,570 barrels of crude oil and chemicals into the North Saskatchewan River. It is safe to assume that a divided approach will eventually It found that over this period, there were 6,488 separate spill events involving the release of liquid hydrocarbons into the environment, an annual average of 282 spills per year. Oil spills on pipelines regulated by AER that exceeded 1 million litres between 1975 and 2012. As evidence in my previous articles on this topic has shown, oil pipeline spills have been a consistent environmental hazard in Canada since the mid-twentieth century. The reporter noted that 18 separate leaks occurred in the district in 1949 with one substantial oil spill near Leduc where “several thousand barrels of oil escaped before the leak was discovered.” Considering the number of leaks to occur in the district in spite of the walking inspections, the report captured the futility of the men’s labour: “Resembling northern trappers walking their trap lines, the men walk miles over their designated routes the year around. 2 0 obj �ʟ�1��[�R4+��so(D���^�#J|�ې����a�r1*�D��\M� � �5�k�^4$�T��ݶړ����D��/f���A���hhz��#Y&�ע��������i��2.��d�H�j!h��W��^�OQ~��ju�Vc����Δ�.�ˇ4��������C� %PDF-1.5 According to early media reports, the massive spill, one of the largest in Canadian history, was first spotted by a contractor who was walking along the pipeline. As a consequence, sea otters are regarded as being very sensitive to oil spills as oil may result in the fur losing its capacity to insulate the animals. In the 2010s there were 63 spills of 7 tonnes and over, resulting in 164,000 tonnes of oil lost; 91% of this amount was spilt in just 10 incidents. An aircraft can detect spills of less than 1 litre. Pingback: Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the national interest? Following Imperial Oil’s discoveries of substantial oil and gas resources in Leduc and Redwater in the late 1940s, oil companies and their pipeline subsidiaries began to build the province’s modern oil and gas pipeline systems, an extensive transportation network that now consists of nearly 400,000 km of energy pipelines. The study predicts the frequency of oil spills from tankers in various regions and areas of Canada. The pipeline bulged and bursted during a pressure test, spewing 5,247,000 litres. Canada commissioned reviews of Tsleil-Waututh expert reports on oil spills without telling the First Nation, the Federal Court of Appeal heard Monday, … There may also be other charges under Canadian laws. Vessels in Canadian waters must report oil spills immediately to the Canadian Coast Guard and the polluter must pay for the oil spill clean-up. [6], Large-scale oil spills make up a small percentage of the total number of oil spills on pipelines regulated by AER and the NEB. �KPSzhwГw�ODl�Х+���)"���FA�w�*�;�Ƣ��K��\�f �آ~C4�H�D�-5��/}�fh�_z|3$��f�g��N%���8f���펹��lTN'b��zr��oL)�ו��/�1�� s��^_�n'j֘V��7�H�ʴ��sKѬ2�N�G.A]�F The regime was created in 1995 to enable industry to respond to its own oil spills. But as the Nexen spill last week illustrates, size also matters when it comes to assessing the risks associated with transporting oil via pipelines. [1] “These ‘Oil Men’ Hope They Never Strike a Gusher” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 March 1950, 9. It also includes analysis of a second database obtained and published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation via an access-to-information request covering a period from 2000 to 2012. Last week, CBC News published a series of articles about energy pipeline safety on Canada’s federally-regulated system of oil and gas pipelines, revealing that between 2000 and 2011 Canada … Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. New ... response, and recovery from potential oil spills and protect... Western Canada. Coastal areas have higher traffic and a greater risk of accidents, such as ships running aground. Learn More: Spill Response Procedures Video: Marine 101: What happens when a ship enters Canadian waters? 2P�UZvޏc��Dg����/��'ґؚN=I':q,����GM�;���IyF�)�c��oV%�W��{|������ɤ��~�ڦ��)����a7��YU�!�й�ʓ���u�ܰ�͠����������d2΁0O�ߤ{ٹ��x��&T�V�"���l(����v`��y?�W�b»R$u�pl�{9-�/�ԡ�C�>��{���6?�]b;��Lj�������U���7�g�{V�l����E�v �J���T�G��2�6�#f��Y3%��}�̚Id-:�$�iY�ҿX�θ��?,�����/�u-P�/^ŗP��� ]�S�xc���y~b��Cg��Q��t�a�^��� The spill drained into a nearby stream or river, according to provincial records. activehistory.ca/2015/07/the-biggest-oil-pipeline-spills-in-canadian-history Spills are mainly detected within Canada's coastal areas, including the Great Lakes. <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 18 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> According to Richard Unger and John Thistle, “Canada and Canadians have long used relatively large quantities of energy and that total energy consumption in the country has risen dramatically over what is historically, and compared to many other countries, a short period of time.”[3] This would not have been possible without the development of large-scale pipeline infrastructure. In the past two decades, most of the oil production activity in Canada has taken place in the northern Athabasca region of Alberta where corporations extract and transport enormous quantities of bitumen for processing into synthetic crude oil. CALGARY, Alberta/TORONTO (Reuters) - A pipeline in the western Canadian province of … In Canada, under the Marine Liability Act (MLA), if a ship spills oil of any kind in the marine environment it is the polluter who must pay for the cost of oil spill response. Jan 27, 2017 - A-growing-list-of-oil-spills-in-Canada-and-the-United-States-1.pdf Incident overviews. <> But it … :�2����e:�c��2�+W�oay'��iw�A�D����+�ï�{X�͔���QisU�A�kn,����R���7OJ�c;s�~�o��, They are a symptom of the broader transition in Canada from an economy based on traditional fuels (wood, animal, coal) to high-energy fossil fuels (oil, natural gas) that took place in the years after 1947. Across different parts of Canada, oil pipelines have ruptured in several massive on-shore spills in the past. As I previously wrote in May, Leslie Young, Anna Mehler Paperny, Francis Silvaggio, and a production team from GlobalNews.ca assembled the most comprehensive chronology of oil pipeline spills in Alberta, covering a period from 1975 to 2013. At 16:48PST Footnote 1 on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 the sailing vessel Hali observed a sheen of oil in English Bay and reported it to the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). H��-�PT$�z]2���n8�J�%q�V�4G`gd\EZ��{�6���CQҎ{Q�� f>�P�;�)is�/+��*��4��V�О�42�Ha���V���@)���)���C���LSS@�1'��5%G����0X�S:��A�#݉ne��L�q.&�2rX�&w�P���{�o]}f4�W�'��g��a���*�Ef]iZ��E�ϼhR�ʒ�C'pn.FPƛ�5��D���M �q�(7���"��ef�`��2�MT�r�67!�\��\m�n�#YF&7�(�w ��Ŋ�) In 2017, the National Aerial Surveillance Program detected 2 878 litres of pollution spills in Canadian waters. [4] These figures were derived from statistical analysis of a pipeline incident database from the National Energy Board library with data for the period 1950 to 1996. Ultimately, the environmental damage associated with oil pipeline spills is a product and function of the mass consumption of oil and the energy regime transition that began in Canada (and other parts of the world) in the second half of the twentieth century and continues into the present. reported to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources, Sask Environment and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada from Jan. 1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2018, a period that included the height of Saskatchewan’s oil boom. on The Biggest Oil Pipeline Spills in Canadian History, The Biggest Oil Pipeline Spills in Canadian History, “one of the worst leaks in Canadian history.”, Auditor General of Alberta, “Report of the Auditor General of Alberta” (March 2015), 49, “ST57-2013 Field Surveillance and Operations Branch – Field Operations Provincial Summary 2012”, http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/community/editorsblog/2013/10/digging-for-data-on-pipelines.html, http://www.transmountain.com/uploads/pages/1422040950-Dec-2014-Spill-Chart-for-posting-FINAL.pdf, http://globalnews.ca/news/622513/open-data-alberta-oil-spills-1975-2013/, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the national interest? 4 0 obj Environment and Climate Change Canada 105 McGill Street, 3rd floor Montréal QC H2Y 2E7 ec.dale-rqinspections-eed-qrinspections.ec@canada.ca In 2012 alone, there were 234 liquid hydrocarbon releases. endobj Finally, data was also drawn from spill data released by Kinder Morgan for the Trans Mountain pipeline available here: http://www.transmountain.com/uploads/pages/1422040950-Dec-2014-Spill-Chart-for-posting-FINAL.pdf, [5] For details, see the pipeline incident database acquired by Global News in 2013 here: http://globalnews.ca/news/622513/open-data-alberta-oil-spills-1975-2013/. n o�օN�dRJ0! [5]  The second largest on-shore oil spill by volume occurred in Manitoba in October 1967 along Line 3 of the Interprovincial Pipeline near Glenboro. Canada and the U.S. in responding to oil spills caused by ships, as evi-denced by the adoption of joint contingency plans, the laws governing liability and compensation for such spills remain very different in the two countries. Numerous media reports accurately identified this as “one of the worst leaks in Canadian history.” By volume, this might be the third largest on-shore liquid hydrocarbon spill in Canadian history (at least according to AER and NEB records). The small city of North Battleford was forced to endobj There were 122 oil and gas spills and releases from pipelines last year in Canada — four of them "significant" — according to a report by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. For example, the annual spill rates on two of the longest oil pipelines regulated by the federal National Energy Board (NEB) illustrate the regularity of such incidents: Data on incidents along oil pipelines regulated by the province of Alberta were obtained by a Global News investigation in 2013, showing an astonishing rate of spills for the period from 1975 to 2012. As Canadians learned late last week with the news that a feeder pipeline operated by Nexen released more than five million litres of bitumen emulsion, the problem of oil pipeline spills is endemic to the industry and continues into the present. endobj Each has been evaluated through OSPR's unannounced drill program and has the ability to rapidly respond to a variety of oil spill incidents. Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSROs) play an integral part in OSPR's planned response to any oil spill incident. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. It made the database available here: http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/community/editorsblog/2013/10/digging-for-data-on-pipelines.html. Blog posts published before October  28, 2018 are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License. ���va�*LI�����rl{�2�.X���Ol˅���Ӧp���O�1-�ÞSR+��a78�� t��t {����e7�;Y�.����N� ��K���� p�6�*ݗRO�m���\��T-�kw�]��']3����_� ���p�Gޘ��=���Ehwϥ�$f6�Z�|a��?s�y}��ͧ���;YoR�v�.M�σ kbJ�v�=hȎ�\�v�=8���j�Θ��:�J߉����:�&GO�{Z�2��SΖ�R�y��bU��#�ƣ�Sɜu�5�����a2��Y��H�E��/����I2���~r�W�)ڝs��5W��޹���/'���=�r+�!���������* �9���q{�9\O����&��+�P��x��^�v�ܪ�5hw�m�L��B��T�# The Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill (1978) The Amoco Cadiz , a very large crude carrier (VLCC) stocked with nearly 69 million gallons of light crude oil , ran aground on shallow rocks off the coast of Brittany , France, on the morning of March 16, 1978. He blogs at http://seankheraj.com where you can read all his work on the history of oil pipelines in Canada. Alberta pipelines: 5 major oil spills in recent history Little Buffalo. Each worker walked twelve to fifteen miles per day, checking on pipeline facilities in the Edmonton district and looking for leaks, a consistent problem for Alberta’s booming oil industry in the mid-twentieth century. Source: Library and Archives Canada, 3195990. Source: Global News pipeline incident database. However, they have the potential to result in the most significant adverse environmental effects. From 1994 through 2013, the U.S. had 745 serious incidents with gas distribution, causing 278 fatalities and 1059 injuries, with $110,658,083 in property damage. In the 2000s there were 181 spills of 7 tonnes and over, resulting in 196,000 tonnes of oil lost; 75% of this amount was spilt in just 10 incidents. ��i�8s��er�o���nV�F�މ�Z�fy�Î�WS�͊�@���}�^4ZC8{����b�b�ͺ�����-Ь�S8��aP�T�f�h tR�C�f�h|��A��%Ӭ J��� This statistic displays selected oil spills and leaks that occurred in the Prairie provinces of Canada from April 2007 to June 2016. 11 21 120.0 Lube Oil-Turboflo 32 Suncor Terra Nova Terra Nova FPSO Compressor 12 18 10.0 Crude Oil HMDC Hibernia Hibernia Platform Offloading System 12 27-31 6,000.0 Crude Oil HMDC Hibernia Hibernia Platform Offloading System (Note 2) 6,475.9 809.5 53.7 Information in this table is preliminary and subject to revision. Oil tanker cargo has not been the source of most oil spills in Canadian waters. Between 2003 – 2012, 78% of oil spills 10,000 litres or greater in Canadian waters involved fuel oil rather than oil carried as cargo. This map shows oil and gas industry spills. x��]Y���~g�C����)�>6�iɻZѲ,:�Aއ��^�t�}���"Qգ�t%jd�#,�҈_~( ���c��_g_�՛����������l~�>��ϋ�/g���z����D'�Q�����W�l{�����q�~�����Ͼ�NΔ��z�L��39���\4�������������������o����/_���/�w����ϾM�Oϟ��G�I�;��z�%4!��*`�o^J�~�v�U ���߿~)�^����y2�dH�٧Yu'da��y��uï�N�lg Investigative reporters found 28,666 crude oil spills for an average of nearly 775 per year or 2 oil spills every day for a period of 37 years. The first line of defense for cost recovery is the insurance shipowners are required to have. The resulting fire destroyed a bridge. | Climate Zone, History Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Trans Mountain Pipeline, 1961-2013: 81 oil spills reported to NEB; 1.53 spills per year, Interprovincial Pipeline, 1962-1996: 190 oil spills reported to NEB; 5.43 spills per year[4]. %���� Source: Auditor General of Alberta, “Report of the Auditor General of Alberta” (March 2015), 49. 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Number of Alberta Pipeline Incidents and Volume of Releases, 2013-2014. �g�JP���?��L�b�,l���Lͯ�4]R�y�_ɧ1��C���������L7�����AQv�8�[0��N�/ ���=B�-y��c(?�e����?63��8���H K,�ȶ�2��6p�X� ;���#^P�J&f��٤\;��r���όʆ��#�v��� �/6��U w�d~XH9_��ڏX����r��L�1��>zhF��|�(��?���%��"����n%�h�w8�f=�/��uh������_�I1?$���ůS��fY��b�J�vt��+�4B2ɦ���R����EhV���*,����������բ�����xy�Z_NIѬU�BV.�jV�*i��r�p�SB4kEx���v ���r��}�ؤ����Y%��P�Չ�Y'�d,"�9faBv|��)I���N�^��Ѭu2��n��S4�F����� jurisdiction,” Interprovincial Pipe Line Company, National Energy Board Library, TN 879.5/C16, p. 1 of 30. 3 0 obj A partial list of major spills follows Table 1 illustrating a track record of pervasive, systemic environmental and safety issues. As the Auditor General of Alberta noted in a report on pipeline safety and regulation last March, “Not all incidents have equal impact.”. — May 6, 2015: A 109-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe crude oil train derails near Heimdal, North Dakota. Leaks and spills have been endemic on long-distance oil pipelines in Canada since the mid-twentieth century. For example, the Interprovincial Pipeline reported 16 separate incidents that resulted in uncontrolled spillage of more than 1 million litres of liquid hydrocarbons between 1962 and 1996, almost one such incident every two years. The Canadian government is modernizing and improving its management of marine safety in response to the growth of overseas trade and the movement of... Western Canada. [2] Energy Resources Conservation Board, “ST57-2013 Field Surveillance and Operations Branch – Field Operations Provincial Summary 2012” (Calgary: June 2013), 9. The expected spill rates (spills per year) are calculated by multiplying (1) the tonnage of oil loaded and unloaded at Canadian ports by (2) spill frequencies (spills per tonnes moved) derived from historical statistics. In 2013, Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) — the provincial regulator of oil pipelines within the borders of the province — published an analysis of pipeline performance from 1990 to 2012. By Sean Kheraj. The National Oil Spill Preparedness and Response Regime provides the framework for preparedness and response for ship-source oil spills in Canadian waters south of the 60th parallel. [6] “Pipeline related incidents under N.E.B. — March 7, 2015: A 94-car Canadian National Railway crude oil train derailed about 3 miles outside the northern Ontario town of Gogama. Technological improvements have helped mitigate that risk, but as the Nexen spill and many others in the past have shown, technology cannot prevent all circumstances that lead to on-shore oil spills. The data in Table 1 and the accompanying partial list support our charges of repeated willful, reckless behavior, Oil is an environmentally hazardous material and, as such, its transportation creates risk. Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land. These conduits for the movement of oil and natural gas unlocked Canada’s transition to a new energy regime in the second half of the twentieth century that saw the country become one of the world’s highest per capita consumers of high-energy fossil fuels. Still, numerous large-scale oil spills have occurred in the past with considerable frequency. <> The accident was 23 miles from the Feb. 14 derailment. Canada produces more oil than it consumes and as a result, is a significant net exporter of crude oil. The top nine most destructive oil spills are listed below. Canada from 1996 through 2014 of well over 1000 spills and approaching one billion gallons. There were 23 spills of either refined petroleum products or crude oil in Quebec from 2004 to 2017, the report stated. In 2019, Canada was the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S., accounting for 48% of total U.S. crude oil imports and for 22% of U.S. refinery crude oil intake. These overviews are not situation reports, but summaries about the incident location, scale, cause, response actions, and environmental impacts. The CCG managed the response and clean-up operation with support from key partners, including Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC), other federal departments, other levels of government and non-governmental … It’s a monotonous job — few leaks are found.” After walking more than 800 miles on the job, Dick Caws, one of the “pipeline walkers,” confessed, “The funny thing about my job is that I’m supposed to be looking for oil leaks, but since I started last October 1 I haven’t found one.”[1] Sixty-five years later, a contractor discovered one of the largest leaks on an oil pipeline in Canadian history, using the same method of detection. Sean Kheraj is an associate professor of Canadian and environmental history at York University. Below is a list of the major oil tanker spills since 1970 from ITOPF’s database: 2007: Hebei Spirit off South Korea – 11,000 tonnes. <>/Metadata 155 0 R/ViewerPreferences 156 0 R>> In 1980, a pipeline operated by Pembina Pipeline Corporation ruptured and spilled an estimated 6.5 million litres of crude oil east of Valleyview, Alberta. William H. Willis, Governor of Vermont State and Hon. Less than one month later, a section of Line 3 failed again during a pressure test, spilling 2,544,000 litres of crude oil. However, inhaling hydrocarbons or ingesting oil when they groom themselves can damage their lungs, cause ulcers, and result in liver and kidney damage. ͪQ'����NhV��6�j�ݬ5���|a���Y9�в��Q�� As I told Bill Tieleman in a interview in The Tyee nearly three years ago, there is no leak-proof oil pipeline system. A day’s work was long, exhausting, and ultimately fruitless. When considering pipeline incidents in the recent past, the evidence is still sobering. Below is a list of OSROs on contract with OSPR. Source: Library and Archives Canada, WRM 1054. [2] Those companies also built Canada’s first long-distance pipelines for the delivery of Alberta crude and natural gas to urban industrial markets in Vancouver, central Canada, and parts of the US. A growing list of oil spills in Canada and the United States July 21st, 2016: The Husky Oil spill, Saskatchewan Last week, on July 21st, a pipeline leak spilled as much as 1,570 barrels of crude oil and chemicals into the North Saskatchewan River. It is safe to assume that a divided approach will eventually It found that over this period, there were 6,488 separate spill events involving the release of liquid hydrocarbons into the environment, an annual average of 282 spills per year. Oil spills on pipelines regulated by AER that exceeded 1 million litres between 1975 and 2012. As evidence in my previous articles on this topic has shown, oil pipeline spills have been a consistent environmental hazard in Canada since the mid-twentieth century. The reporter noted that 18 separate leaks occurred in the district in 1949 with one substantial oil spill near Leduc where “several thousand barrels of oil escaped before the leak was discovered.” Considering the number of leaks to occur in the district in spite of the walking inspections, the report captured the futility of the men’s labour: “Resembling northern trappers walking their trap lines, the men walk miles over their designated routes the year around. 2 0 obj �ʟ�1��[�R4+��so(D���^�#J|�ې����a�r1*�D��\M� � �5�k�^4$�T��ݶړ����D��/f���A���hhz��#Y&�ע��������i��2.��d�H�j!h��W��^�OQ~��ju�Vc����Δ�.�ˇ4��������C� %PDF-1.5 According to early media reports, the massive spill, one of the largest in Canadian history, was first spotted by a contractor who was walking along the pipeline. As a consequence, sea otters are regarded as being very sensitive to oil spills as oil may result in the fur losing its capacity to insulate the animals. In the 2010s there were 63 spills of 7 tonnes and over, resulting in 164,000 tonnes of oil lost; 91% of this amount was spilt in just 10 incidents. An aircraft can detect spills of less than 1 litre. Pingback: Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the national interest? Following Imperial Oil’s discoveries of substantial oil and gas resources in Leduc and Redwater in the late 1940s, oil companies and their pipeline subsidiaries began to build the province’s modern oil and gas pipeline systems, an extensive transportation network that now consists of nearly 400,000 km of energy pipelines. The study predicts the frequency of oil spills from tankers in various regions and areas of Canada. The pipeline bulged and bursted during a pressure test, spewing 5,247,000 litres. Canada commissioned reviews of Tsleil-Waututh expert reports on oil spills without telling the First Nation, the Federal Court of Appeal heard Monday, … There may also be other charges under Canadian laws. Vessels in Canadian waters must report oil spills immediately to the Canadian Coast Guard and the polluter must pay for the oil spill clean-up. [6], Large-scale oil spills make up a small percentage of the total number of oil spills on pipelines regulated by AER and the NEB. �KPSzhwГw�ODl�Х+���)"���FA�w�*�;�Ƣ��K��\�f �آ~C4�H�D�-5��/}�fh�_z|3$��f�g��N%���8f���펹��lTN'b��zr��oL)�ו��/�1�� s��^_�n'j֘V��7�H�ʴ��sKѬ2�N�G.A]�F The regime was created in 1995 to enable industry to respond to its own oil spills. But as the Nexen spill last week illustrates, size also matters when it comes to assessing the risks associated with transporting oil via pipelines. [1] “These ‘Oil Men’ Hope They Never Strike a Gusher” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 March 1950, 9. It also includes analysis of a second database obtained and published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation via an access-to-information request covering a period from 2000 to 2012. Last week, CBC News published a series of articles about energy pipeline safety on Canada’s federally-regulated system of oil and gas pipelines, revealing that between 2000 and 2011 Canada … Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. New ... response, and recovery from potential oil spills and protect... Western Canada. Coastal areas have higher traffic and a greater risk of accidents, such as ships running aground. Learn More: Spill Response Procedures Video: Marine 101: What happens when a ship enters Canadian waters? 2P�UZvޏc��Dg����/��'ґؚN=I':q,����GM�;���IyF�)�c��oV%�W��{|������ɤ��~�ڦ��)����a7��YU�!�й�ʓ���u�ܰ�͠����������d2΁0O�ߤ{ٹ��x��&T�V�"���l(����v`��y?�W�b»R$u�pl�{9-�/�ԡ�C�>��{���6?�]b;��Lj�������U���7�g�{V�l����E�v �J���T�G��2�6�#f��Y3%��}�̚Id-:�$�iY�ҿX�θ��?,�����/�u-P�/^ŗP��� ]�S�xc���y~b��Cg��Q��t�a�^��� The spill drained into a nearby stream or river, according to provincial records. activehistory.ca/2015/07/the-biggest-oil-pipeline-spills-in-canadian-history Spills are mainly detected within Canada's coastal areas, including the Great Lakes. <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 18 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> According to Richard Unger and John Thistle, “Canada and Canadians have long used relatively large quantities of energy and that total energy consumption in the country has risen dramatically over what is historically, and compared to many other countries, a short period of time.”[3] This would not have been possible without the development of large-scale pipeline infrastructure. In the past two decades, most of the oil production activity in Canada has taken place in the northern Athabasca region of Alberta where corporations extract and transport enormous quantities of bitumen for processing into synthetic crude oil. CALGARY, Alberta/TORONTO (Reuters) - A pipeline in the western Canadian province of … In Canada, under the Marine Liability Act (MLA), if a ship spills oil of any kind in the marine environment it is the polluter who must pay for the cost of oil spill response. Jan 27, 2017 - A-growing-list-of-oil-spills-in-Canada-and-the-United-States-1.pdf Incident overviews. <> But it … :�2����e:�c��2�+W�oay'��iw�A�D����+�ï�{X�͔���QisU�A�kn,����R���7OJ�c;s�~�o��, They are a symptom of the broader transition in Canada from an economy based on traditional fuels (wood, animal, coal) to high-energy fossil fuels (oil, natural gas) that took place in the years after 1947. Across different parts of Canada, oil pipelines have ruptured in several massive on-shore spills in the past. As I previously wrote in May, Leslie Young, Anna Mehler Paperny, Francis Silvaggio, and a production team from GlobalNews.ca assembled the most comprehensive chronology of oil pipeline spills in Alberta, covering a period from 1975 to 2013. At 16:48PST Footnote 1 on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 the sailing vessel Hali observed a sheen of oil in English Bay and reported it to the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). H��-�PT$�z]2���n8�J�%q�V�4G`gd\EZ��{�6���CQҎ{Q�� f>�P�;�)is�/+��*��4��V�О�42�Ha���V���@)���)���C���LSS@�1'��5%G����0X�S:��A�#݉ne��L�q.&�2rX�&w�P���{�o]}f4�W�'��g��a���*�Ef]iZ��E�ϼhR�ʒ�C'pn.FPƛ�5��D���M �q�(7���"��ef�`��2�MT�r�67!�\��\m�n�#YF&7�(�w ��Ŋ�) In 2017, the National Aerial Surveillance Program detected 2 878 litres of pollution spills in Canadian waters. [4] These figures were derived from statistical analysis of a pipeline incident database from the National Energy Board library with data for the period 1950 to 1996. Ultimately, the environmental damage associated with oil pipeline spills is a product and function of the mass consumption of oil and the energy regime transition that began in Canada (and other parts of the world) in the second half of the twentieth century and continues into the present. reported to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources, Sask Environment and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada from Jan. 1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2018, a period that included the height of Saskatchewan’s oil boom. on The Biggest Oil Pipeline Spills in Canadian History, The Biggest Oil Pipeline Spills in Canadian History, “one of the worst leaks in Canadian history.”, Auditor General of Alberta, “Report of the Auditor General of Alberta” (March 2015), 49, “ST57-2013 Field Surveillance and Operations Branch – Field Operations Provincial Summary 2012”, http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/community/editorsblog/2013/10/digging-for-data-on-pipelines.html, http://www.transmountain.com/uploads/pages/1422040950-Dec-2014-Spill-Chart-for-posting-FINAL.pdf, http://globalnews.ca/news/622513/open-data-alberta-oil-spills-1975-2013/, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the national interest? 4 0 obj Environment and Climate Change Canada 105 McGill Street, 3rd floor Montréal QC H2Y 2E7 ec.dale-rqinspections-eed-qrinspections.ec@canada.ca In 2012 alone, there were 234 liquid hydrocarbon releases. endobj Finally, data was also drawn from spill data released by Kinder Morgan for the Trans Mountain pipeline available here: http://www.transmountain.com/uploads/pages/1422040950-Dec-2014-Spill-Chart-for-posting-FINAL.pdf, [5] For details, see the pipeline incident database acquired by Global News in 2013 here: http://globalnews.ca/news/622513/open-data-alberta-oil-spills-1975-2013/. n o�օN�dRJ0! [5]  The second largest on-shore oil spill by volume occurred in Manitoba in October 1967 along Line 3 of the Interprovincial Pipeline near Glenboro. Canada and the U.S. in responding to oil spills caused by ships, as evi-denced by the adoption of joint contingency plans, the laws governing liability and compensation for such spills remain very different in the two countries. Numerous media reports accurately identified this as “one of the worst leaks in Canadian history.” By volume, this might be the third largest on-shore liquid hydrocarbon spill in Canadian history (at least according to AER and NEB records). The small city of North Battleford was forced to endobj There were 122 oil and gas spills and releases from pipelines last year in Canada — four of them "significant" — according to a report by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. For example, the annual spill rates on two of the longest oil pipelines regulated by the federal National Energy Board (NEB) illustrate the regularity of such incidents: Data on incidents along oil pipelines regulated by the province of Alberta were obtained by a Global News investigation in 2013, showing an astonishing rate of spills for the period from 1975 to 2012. As Canadians learned late last week with the news that a feeder pipeline operated by Nexen released more than five million litres of bitumen emulsion, the problem of oil pipeline spills is endemic to the industry and continues into the present. endobj Each has been evaluated through OSPR's unannounced drill program and has the ability to rapidly respond to a variety of oil spill incidents. Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSROs) play an integral part in OSPR's planned response to any oil spill incident. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. It made the database available here: http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/community/editorsblog/2013/10/digging-for-data-on-pipelines.html. Blog posts published before October  28, 2018 are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License. ���va�*LI�����rl{�2�.X���Ol˅���Ӧp���O�1-�ÞSR+��a78�� t��t {����e7�;Y�.����N� ��K���� p�6�*ݗRO�m���\��T-�kw�]��']3����_� ���p�Gޘ��=���Ehwϥ�$f6�Z�|a��?s�y}��ͧ���;YoR�v�.M�σ kbJ�v�=hȎ�\�v�=8���j�Θ��:�J߉����:�&GO�{Z�2��SΖ�R�y��bU��#�ƣ�Sɜu�5�����a2��Y��H�E��/����I2���~r�W�)ڝs��5W��޹���/'���=�r+�!���������* �9���q{�9\O����&��+�P��x��^�v�ܪ�5hw�m�L��B��T�# The Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill (1978) The Amoco Cadiz , a very large crude carrier (VLCC) stocked with nearly 69 million gallons of light crude oil , ran aground on shallow rocks off the coast of Brittany , France, on the morning of March 16, 1978. He blogs at http://seankheraj.com where you can read all his work on the history of oil pipelines in Canada. Alberta pipelines: 5 major oil spills in recent history Little Buffalo. Each worker walked twelve to fifteen miles per day, checking on pipeline facilities in the Edmonton district and looking for leaks, a consistent problem for Alberta’s booming oil industry in the mid-twentieth century. Source: Library and Archives Canada, 3195990. Source: Global News pipeline incident database. However, they have the potential to result in the most significant adverse environmental effects. From 1994 through 2013, the U.S. had 745 serious incidents with gas distribution, causing 278 fatalities and 1059 injuries, with $110,658,083 in property damage. In the 2000s there were 181 spills of 7 tonnes and over, resulting in 196,000 tonnes of oil lost; 75% of this amount was spilt in just 10 incidents. ��i�8s��er�o���nV�F�މ�Z�fy�Î�WS�͊�@���}�^4ZC8{����b�b�ͺ�����-Ь�S8��aP�T�f�h tR�C�f�h|��A��%Ӭ J��� This statistic displays selected oil spills and leaks that occurred in the Prairie provinces of Canada from April 2007 to June 2016. 11 21 120.0 Lube Oil-Turboflo 32 Suncor Terra Nova Terra Nova FPSO Compressor 12 18 10.0 Crude Oil HMDC Hibernia Hibernia Platform Offloading System 12 27-31 6,000.0 Crude Oil HMDC Hibernia Hibernia Platform Offloading System (Note 2) 6,475.9 809.5 53.7 Information in this table is preliminary and subject to revision. Oil tanker cargo has not been the source of most oil spills in Canadian waters. Between 2003 – 2012, 78% of oil spills 10,000 litres or greater in Canadian waters involved fuel oil rather than oil carried as cargo. This map shows oil and gas industry spills. x��]Y���~g�C����)�>6�iɻZѲ,:�Aއ��^�t�}���"Qգ�t%jd�#,�҈_~( ���c��_g_�՛����������l~�>��ϋ�/g���z����D'�Q�����W�l{�����q�~�����Ͼ�NΔ��z�L��39���\4�������������������o����/_���/�w����ϾM�Oϟ��G�I�;��z�%4!��*`�o^J�~�v�U ���߿~)�^����y2�dH�٧Yu'da��y��uï�N�lg Investigative reporters found 28,666 crude oil spills for an average of nearly 775 per year or 2 oil spills every day for a period of 37 years. The first line of defense for cost recovery is the insurance shipowners are required to have. The resulting fire destroyed a bridge. | Climate Zone, History Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Trans Mountain Pipeline, 1961-2013: 81 oil spills reported to NEB; 1.53 spills per year, Interprovincial Pipeline, 1962-1996: 190 oil spills reported to NEB; 5.43 spills per year[4]. %���� Source: Auditor General of Alberta, “Report of the Auditor General of Alberta” (March 2015), 49. 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[4] Richard W. Unger and John Thistle, Energy Consumption in Canada in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2013), 13. Incidents also increased in other provinces: In Ontario, there were more incidents in both 2016 and 2017 than in any other year since 2008. In April 2011, almost 4.5 million litres of crude oil leaked near the First Nations community of Little... Red Deer River. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply at official ceremony for opening of Portland-Montreal Pipeline, 1941. And in Alberta, on pipelines regulated by AER, there were 25 crude oil and crude bitumen spills between 1975 and 2012, nearly one large-scale spill every one and a half years. �z�U�J7&������Y�O�f���jW�Ya�� News of increased crude oil transportation by rail from Canada has raised this question again. In March 1950, four Alberta “pipeline walkers” spoke with a reporter from Canadian Press about their tireless work. Several sources of contemporary and historical evidence reveal that such spills in Canada have occurred frequently over time. C.D. 2002: Prestige off Spain – 63,000 tonnes. M/V Queen of the North Ferry Sinking and Oil Spill – Gil Island, March 22, 2006 CN Coal Train Derailment – Lytton, Fraser River, July 31, 2006 CN Train Derailment and Sodium Hydroxide Spill – Cheakamus River, August 5, 2005 Pembina Pipeline Oil Spill – Pine River, August 1, 2000 T����)&�\���Hө��h��/�a���O߇�j���O��R](�����O/;[�ES����"�^�v�>i�Xo���Al�O�N��aw�n�Iﾽ��X��z3����XW�f(A9��Ќ�z �3��)p��-w��_\\d��ه�54*�^�/՝�2��=v_V�ok�vm�}FT�Z&�Gs��-�4�o�I]� Evidence from the National Energy Board (neb) pipeline incident reports reveals a track record of thousands of spills totalling millions of litres of oil across the country. | Climate Zone, ActiveHistory.ca is supported financially and administratively by the. 1 0 obj Global News has made a very substantial contribution to the study of the history of oil pipeline spills in Alberta. Number of Alberta Pipeline Incidents and Volume of Releases, 2013-2014. �g�JP���?��L�b�,l���Lͯ�4]R�y�_ɧ1��C���������L7�����AQv�8�[0��N�/ ���=B�-y��c(?�e����?63��8���H K,�ȶ�2��6p�X� ;���#^P�J&f��٤\;��r���όʆ��#�v��� �/6��U w�d~XH9_��ڏX����r��L�1��>zhF��|�(��?���%��"����n%�h�w8�f=�/��uh������_�I1?$���ůS��fY��b�J�vt��+�4B2ɦ���R����EhV���*,����������բ�����xy�Z_NIѬU�BV.�jV�*i��r�p�SB4kEx���v ���r��}�ؤ����Y%��P�Չ�Y'�d,"�9faBv|��)I���N�^��Ѭu2��n��S4�F����� jurisdiction,” Interprovincial Pipe Line Company, National Energy Board Library, TN 879.5/C16, p. 1 of 30. 3 0 obj A partial list of major spills follows Table 1 illustrating a track record of pervasive, systemic environmental and safety issues. As the Auditor General of Alberta noted in a report on pipeline safety and regulation last March, “Not all incidents have equal impact.”. — May 6, 2015: A 109-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe crude oil train derails near Heimdal, North Dakota. Leaks and spills have been endemic on long-distance oil pipelines in Canada since the mid-twentieth century. For example, the Interprovincial Pipeline reported 16 separate incidents that resulted in uncontrolled spillage of more than 1 million litres of liquid hydrocarbons between 1962 and 1996, almost one such incident every two years. The Canadian government is modernizing and improving its management of marine safety in response to the growth of overseas trade and the movement of... Western Canada. [2] Energy Resources Conservation Board, “ST57-2013 Field Surveillance and Operations Branch – Field Operations Provincial Summary 2012” (Calgary: June 2013), 9. The expected spill rates (spills per year) are calculated by multiplying (1) the tonnage of oil loaded and unloaded at Canadian ports by (2) spill frequencies (spills per tonnes moved) derived from historical statistics. In 2013, Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) — the provincial regulator of oil pipelines within the borders of the province — published an analysis of pipeline performance from 1990 to 2012. By Sean Kheraj. The National Oil Spill Preparedness and Response Regime provides the framework for preparedness and response for ship-source oil spills in Canadian waters south of the 60th parallel. [6] “Pipeline related incidents under N.E.B. — March 7, 2015: A 94-car Canadian National Railway crude oil train derailed about 3 miles outside the northern Ontario town of Gogama. Technological improvements have helped mitigate that risk, but as the Nexen spill and many others in the past have shown, technology cannot prevent all circumstances that lead to on-shore oil spills. The data in Table 1 and the accompanying partial list support our charges of repeated willful, reckless behavior, Oil is an environmentally hazardous material and, as such, its transportation creates risk. Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land. These conduits for the movement of oil and natural gas unlocked Canada’s transition to a new energy regime in the second half of the twentieth century that saw the country become one of the world’s highest per capita consumers of high-energy fossil fuels. Still, numerous large-scale oil spills have occurred in the past with considerable frequency. <> The accident was 23 miles from the Feb. 14 derailment. Canada produces more oil than it consumes and as a result, is a significant net exporter of crude oil. The top nine most destructive oil spills are listed below. Canada from 1996 through 2014 of well over 1000 spills and approaching one billion gallons. There were 23 spills of either refined petroleum products or crude oil in Quebec from 2004 to 2017, the report stated. In 2019, Canada was the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S., accounting for 48% of total U.S. crude oil imports and for 22% of U.S. refinery crude oil intake. These overviews are not situation reports, but summaries about the incident location, scale, cause, response actions, and environmental impacts. The CCG managed the response and clean-up operation with support from key partners, including Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC), other federal departments, other levels of government and non-governmental … It’s a monotonous job — few leaks are found.” After walking more than 800 miles on the job, Dick Caws, one of the “pipeline walkers,” confessed, “The funny thing about my job is that I’m supposed to be looking for oil leaks, but since I started last October 1 I haven’t found one.”[1] Sixty-five years later, a contractor discovered one of the largest leaks on an oil pipeline in Canadian history, using the same method of detection. Sean Kheraj is an associate professor of Canadian and environmental history at York University. Below is a list of the major oil tanker spills since 1970 from ITOPF’s database: 2007: Hebei Spirit off South Korea – 11,000 tonnes. <>/Metadata 155 0 R/ViewerPreferences 156 0 R>> In 1980, a pipeline operated by Pembina Pipeline Corporation ruptured and spilled an estimated 6.5 million litres of crude oil east of Valleyview, Alberta. William H. Willis, Governor of Vermont State and Hon. Less than one month later, a section of Line 3 failed again during a pressure test, spilling 2,544,000 litres of crude oil. However, inhaling hydrocarbons or ingesting oil when they groom themselves can damage their lungs, cause ulcers, and result in liver and kidney damage. ͪQ'����NhV��6�j�ݬ5���|a���Y9�в��Q�� As I told Bill Tieleman in a interview in The Tyee nearly three years ago, there is no leak-proof oil pipeline system. A day’s work was long, exhausting, and ultimately fruitless. When considering pipeline incidents in the recent past, the evidence is still sobering. Below is a list of OSROs on contract with OSPR. Source: Library and Archives Canada, WRM 1054. [2] Those companies also built Canada’s first long-distance pipelines for the delivery of Alberta crude and natural gas to urban industrial markets in Vancouver, central Canada, and parts of the US. A growing list of oil spills in Canada and the United States July 21st, 2016: The Husky Oil spill, Saskatchewan Last week, on July 21st, a pipeline leak spilled as much as 1,570 barrels of crude oil and chemicals into the North Saskatchewan River. It is safe to assume that a divided approach will eventually It found that over this period, there were 6,488 separate spill events involving the release of liquid hydrocarbons into the environment, an annual average of 282 spills per year. Oil spills on pipelines regulated by AER that exceeded 1 million litres between 1975 and 2012. As evidence in my previous articles on this topic has shown, oil pipeline spills have been a consistent environmental hazard in Canada since the mid-twentieth century. The reporter noted that 18 separate leaks occurred in the district in 1949 with one substantial oil spill near Leduc where “several thousand barrels of oil escaped before the leak was discovered.” Considering the number of leaks to occur in the district in spite of the walking inspections, the report captured the futility of the men’s labour: “Resembling northern trappers walking their trap lines, the men walk miles over their designated routes the year around. 2 0 obj �ʟ�1��[�R4+��so(D���^�#J|�ې����a�r1*�D��\M� � �5�k�^4$�T��ݶړ����D��/f���A���hhz��#Y&�ע��������i��2.��d�H�j!h��W��^�OQ~��ju�Vc����Δ�.�ˇ4��������C� %PDF-1.5 According to early media reports, the massive spill, one of the largest in Canadian history, was first spotted by a contractor who was walking along the pipeline. As a consequence, sea otters are regarded as being very sensitive to oil spills as oil may result in the fur losing its capacity to insulate the animals. In the 2010s there were 63 spills of 7 tonnes and over, resulting in 164,000 tonnes of oil lost; 91% of this amount was spilt in just 10 incidents. An aircraft can detect spills of less than 1 litre. Pingback: Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the national interest? Following Imperial Oil’s discoveries of substantial oil and gas resources in Leduc and Redwater in the late 1940s, oil companies and their pipeline subsidiaries began to build the province’s modern oil and gas pipeline systems, an extensive transportation network that now consists of nearly 400,000 km of energy pipelines. The study predicts the frequency of oil spills from tankers in various regions and areas of Canada. The pipeline bulged and bursted during a pressure test, spewing 5,247,000 litres. Canada commissioned reviews of Tsleil-Waututh expert reports on oil spills without telling the First Nation, the Federal Court of Appeal heard Monday, … There may also be other charges under Canadian laws. Vessels in Canadian waters must report oil spills immediately to the Canadian Coast Guard and the polluter must pay for the oil spill clean-up. [6], Large-scale oil spills make up a small percentage of the total number of oil spills on pipelines regulated by AER and the NEB. �KPSzhwГw�ODl�Х+���)"���FA�w�*�;�Ƣ��K��\�f �آ~C4�H�D�-5��/}�fh�_z|3$��f�g��N%���8f���펹��lTN'b��zr��oL)�ו��/�1�� s��^_�n'j֘V��7�H�ʴ��sKѬ2�N�G.A]�F The regime was created in 1995 to enable industry to respond to its own oil spills. But as the Nexen spill last week illustrates, size also matters when it comes to assessing the risks associated with transporting oil via pipelines. [1] “These ‘Oil Men’ Hope They Never Strike a Gusher” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 March 1950, 9. It also includes analysis of a second database obtained and published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation via an access-to-information request covering a period from 2000 to 2012. Last week, CBC News published a series of articles about energy pipeline safety on Canada’s federally-regulated system of oil and gas pipelines, revealing that between 2000 and 2011 Canada … Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. New ... response, and recovery from potential oil spills and protect... Western Canada. Coastal areas have higher traffic and a greater risk of accidents, such as ships running aground. Learn More: Spill Response Procedures Video: Marine 101: What happens when a ship enters Canadian waters? 2P�UZvޏc��Dg����/��'ґؚN=I':q,����GM�;���IyF�)�c��oV%�W��{|������ɤ��~�ڦ��)����a7��YU�!�й�ʓ���u�ܰ�͠����������d2΁0O�ߤ{ٹ��x��&T�V�"���l(����v`��y?�W�b»R$u�pl�{9-�/�ԡ�C�>��{���6?�]b;��Lj�������U���7�g�{V�l����E�v �J���T�G��2�6�#f��Y3%��}�̚Id-:�$�iY�ҿX�θ��?,�����/�u-P�/^ŗP��� ]�S�xc���y~b��Cg��Q��t�a�^��� The spill drained into a nearby stream or river, according to provincial records. activehistory.ca/2015/07/the-biggest-oil-pipeline-spills-in-canadian-history Spills are mainly detected within Canada's coastal areas, including the Great Lakes. <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 18 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> According to Richard Unger and John Thistle, “Canada and Canadians have long used relatively large quantities of energy and that total energy consumption in the country has risen dramatically over what is historically, and compared to many other countries, a short period of time.”[3] This would not have been possible without the development of large-scale pipeline infrastructure. In the past two decades, most of the oil production activity in Canada has taken place in the northern Athabasca region of Alberta where corporations extract and transport enormous quantities of bitumen for processing into synthetic crude oil. CALGARY, Alberta/TORONTO (Reuters) - A pipeline in the western Canadian province of … In Canada, under the Marine Liability Act (MLA), if a ship spills oil of any kind in the marine environment it is the polluter who must pay for the cost of oil spill response. Jan 27, 2017 - A-growing-list-of-oil-spills-in-Canada-and-the-United-States-1.pdf Incident overviews. <> But it … :�2����e:�c��2�+W�oay'��iw�A�D����+�ï�{X�͔���QisU�A�kn,����R���7OJ�c;s�~�o��, They are a symptom of the broader transition in Canada from an economy based on traditional fuels (wood, animal, coal) to high-energy fossil fuels (oil, natural gas) that took place in the years after 1947. Across different parts of Canada, oil pipelines have ruptured in several massive on-shore spills in the past. As I previously wrote in May, Leslie Young, Anna Mehler Paperny, Francis Silvaggio, and a production team from GlobalNews.ca assembled the most comprehensive chronology of oil pipeline spills in Alberta, covering a period from 1975 to 2013. At 16:48PST Footnote 1 on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 the sailing vessel Hali observed a sheen of oil in English Bay and reported it to the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). H��-�PT$�z]2���n8�J�%q�V�4G`gd\EZ��{�6���CQҎ{Q�� f>�P�;�)is�/+��*��4��V�О�42�Ha���V���@)���)���C���LSS@�1'��5%G����0X�S:��A�#݉ne��L�q.&�2rX�&w�P���{�o]}f4�W�'��g��a���*�Ef]iZ��E�ϼhR�ʒ�C'pn.FPƛ�5��D���M �q�(7���"��ef�`��2�MT�r�67!�\��\m�n�#YF&7�(�w ��Ŋ�) In 2017, the National Aerial Surveillance Program detected 2 878 litres of pollution spills in Canadian waters. [4] These figures were derived from statistical analysis of a pipeline incident database from the National Energy Board library with data for the period 1950 to 1996. Ultimately, the environmental damage associated with oil pipeline spills is a product and function of the mass consumption of oil and the energy regime transition that began in Canada (and other parts of the world) in the second half of the twentieth century and continues into the present. reported to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources, Sask Environment and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada from Jan. 1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2018, a period that included the height of Saskatchewan’s oil boom. on The Biggest Oil Pipeline Spills in Canadian History, The Biggest Oil Pipeline Spills in Canadian History, “one of the worst leaks in Canadian history.”, Auditor General of Alberta, “Report of the Auditor General of Alberta” (March 2015), 49, “ST57-2013 Field Surveillance and Operations Branch – Field Operations Provincial Summary 2012”, http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/community/editorsblog/2013/10/digging-for-data-on-pipelines.html, http://www.transmountain.com/uploads/pages/1422040950-Dec-2014-Spill-Chart-for-posting-FINAL.pdf, http://globalnews.ca/news/622513/open-data-alberta-oil-spills-1975-2013/, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline in the national interest? 4 0 obj Environment and Climate Change Canada 105 McGill Street, 3rd floor Montréal QC H2Y 2E7 ec.dale-rqinspections-eed-qrinspections.ec@canada.ca In 2012 alone, there were 234 liquid hydrocarbon releases. endobj Finally, data was also drawn from spill data released by Kinder Morgan for the Trans Mountain pipeline available here: http://www.transmountain.com/uploads/pages/1422040950-Dec-2014-Spill-Chart-for-posting-FINAL.pdf, [5] For details, see the pipeline incident database acquired by Global News in 2013 here: http://globalnews.ca/news/622513/open-data-alberta-oil-spills-1975-2013/. n o�օN�dRJ0! [5]  The second largest on-shore oil spill by volume occurred in Manitoba in October 1967 along Line 3 of the Interprovincial Pipeline near Glenboro. Canada and the U.S. in responding to oil spills caused by ships, as evi-denced by the adoption of joint contingency plans, the laws governing liability and compensation for such spills remain very different in the two countries. Numerous media reports accurately identified this as “one of the worst leaks in Canadian history.” By volume, this might be the third largest on-shore liquid hydrocarbon spill in Canadian history (at least according to AER and NEB records). The small city of North Battleford was forced to endobj There were 122 oil and gas spills and releases from pipelines last year in Canada — four of them "significant" — according to a report by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. For example, the annual spill rates on two of the longest oil pipelines regulated by the federal National Energy Board (NEB) illustrate the regularity of such incidents: Data on incidents along oil pipelines regulated by the province of Alberta were obtained by a Global News investigation in 2013, showing an astonishing rate of spills for the period from 1975 to 2012. As Canadians learned late last week with the news that a feeder pipeline operated by Nexen released more than five million litres of bitumen emulsion, the problem of oil pipeline spills is endemic to the industry and continues into the present. endobj Each has been evaluated through OSPR's unannounced drill program and has the ability to rapidly respond to a variety of oil spill incidents. Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSROs) play an integral part in OSPR's planned response to any oil spill incident. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. It made the database available here: http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/community/editorsblog/2013/10/digging-for-data-on-pipelines.html. Blog posts published before October  28, 2018 are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License. ���va�*LI�����rl{�2�.X���Ol˅���Ӧp���O�1-�ÞSR+��a78�� t��t {����e7�;Y�.����N� ��K���� p�6�*ݗRO�m���\��T-�kw�]��']3����_� ���p�Gޘ��=���Ehwϥ�$f6�Z�|a��?s�y}��ͧ���;YoR�v�.M�σ kbJ�v�=hȎ�\�v�=8���j�Θ��:�J߉����:�&GO�{Z�2��SΖ�R�y��bU��#�ƣ�Sɜu�5�����a2��Y��H�E��/����I2���~r�W�)ڝs��5W��޹���/'���=�r+�!���������* �9���q{�9\O����&��+�P��x��^�v�ܪ�5hw�m�L��B��T�# The Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill (1978) The Amoco Cadiz , a very large crude carrier (VLCC) stocked with nearly 69 million gallons of light crude oil , ran aground on shallow rocks off the coast of Brittany , France, on the morning of March 16, 1978. He blogs at http://seankheraj.com where you can read all his work on the history of oil pipelines in Canada. Alberta pipelines: 5 major oil spills in recent history Little Buffalo. Each worker walked twelve to fifteen miles per day, checking on pipeline facilities in the Edmonton district and looking for leaks, a consistent problem for Alberta’s booming oil industry in the mid-twentieth century. Source: Library and Archives Canada, 3195990. Source: Global News pipeline incident database. However, they have the potential to result in the most significant adverse environmental effects. From 1994 through 2013, the U.S. had 745 serious incidents with gas distribution, causing 278 fatalities and 1059 injuries, with $110,658,083 in property damage. In the 2000s there were 181 spills of 7 tonnes and over, resulting in 196,000 tonnes of oil lost; 75% of this amount was spilt in just 10 incidents. ��i�8s��er�o���nV�F�މ�Z�fy�Î�WS�͊�@���}�^4ZC8{����b�b�ͺ�����-Ь�S8��aP�T�f�h tR�C�f�h|��A��%Ӭ J��� This statistic displays selected oil spills and leaks that occurred in the Prairie provinces of Canada from April 2007 to June 2016. 11 21 120.0 Lube Oil-Turboflo 32 Suncor Terra Nova Terra Nova FPSO Compressor 12 18 10.0 Crude Oil HMDC Hibernia Hibernia Platform Offloading System 12 27-31 6,000.0 Crude Oil HMDC Hibernia Hibernia Platform Offloading System (Note 2) 6,475.9 809.5 53.7 Information in this table is preliminary and subject to revision. Oil tanker cargo has not been the source of most oil spills in Canadian waters. Between 2003 – 2012, 78% of oil spills 10,000 litres or greater in Canadian waters involved fuel oil rather than oil carried as cargo. This map shows oil and gas industry spills. x��]Y���~g�C����)�>6�iɻZѲ,:�Aއ��^�t�}���"Qգ�t%jd�#,�҈_~( ���c��_g_�՛����������l~�>��ϋ�/g���z����D'�Q�����W�l{�����q�~�����Ͼ�NΔ��z�L��39���\4�������������������o����/_���/�w����ϾM�Oϟ��G�I�;��z�%4!��*`�o^J�~�v�U ���߿~)�^����y2�dH�٧Yu'da��y��uï�N�lg Investigative reporters found 28,666 crude oil spills for an average of nearly 775 per year or 2 oil spills every day for a period of 37 years. The first line of defense for cost recovery is the insurance shipowners are required to have. The resulting fire destroyed a bridge. | Climate Zone, History Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Trans Mountain Pipeline, 1961-2013: 81 oil spills reported to NEB; 1.53 spills per year, Interprovincial Pipeline, 1962-1996: 190 oil spills reported to NEB; 5.43 spills per year[4]. %���� Source: Auditor General of Alberta, “Report of the Auditor General of Alberta” (March 2015), 49. 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