Secrecy surrounding pipeline emergency response plans will soon be the subject of public consultation conducted by the National Energy Board (NEB), according to the board’s CEO Peter Watson.
As the CBC reports, speaking to a group of business leaders in Vancouver on Monday Watson said, “Canadians deserve to be consulted on the transparency of emergency management information for NEB-regulated pipelines.”
Pipeline operator Kinder Morgan recently made headlines for refusing to disclose emergency response plans for its TransMountain pipeline expansion project, planned nearly triple the capacity of the existing line. Kinder Morgan refused to release an unredacted version (Read more…)