What about Emergency management plans for communities along the pipeline routes? Does Williams or PennEast even have one? if so, is it a Secret? The National Energy Board has ruled Kinder Morgan must release its emergency management program for the Trans Mountain pipeline, even though the company wanted to keep it secret for proprietary reasons. There are provisions in the NEB Act that allow certain information to be kept confidential if disclosure would compromise security or damage the company’s bottom line. In this case, however, the board ruled public interest outweighed Kinder Morgan’s request to keep the plan confidential. Chris Bowcock, Burnaby’s deputy fire chief, was pleased with the ruling. “It’s good news. The question for me was why they wanted to retain them in the first place. They cited the need for proprietary right, which doesn’t make any sense to me,” he said. “All of the other (hydrocarbon) facilities in the area have openly shared their emergency response plans not only with us but also the community.” - See more at: burnabynow/news/neb-rules-pipeline-emergency-plans-must-be-public-1.1417774#sthash.sIJaYNPX.dpuf IMPORTANT: ....or damage the company’s bottom line
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:29:57 +0000
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