Natural Resources committee  Someone needs to make a decision as to whether the operator is dealing appropriately with the response. I would say that 95% of Mr. Donihee's operators are people you can rely on and take whatever they say to the bank. There are still some other people who occasionally have probl

Natural Resources committee  I'd have to think about it. What I can do is write something. I'm not a great draftsman—that's why I'm doing this, I guess—but I'll try to put something together and send it to you.

Natural Resources committee  The pipeline itself, the stuff that we do to build it?

Natural Resources committee  If something goes wrong there won't be a big calamity because the pipe's still empty. If you go to Calgary to, say, TransCanada's Operations Control Center—they have a redundant control centre in Okotoks—it's like going onto the bridge of the starship Enterprise. They can tell yo

Natural Resources committee  The pipeline itself is done by four principal crafts: the pipefitters, who do the welding and fitting the pipe up, and work on the pumping stations and the facilities; the operating engineers, the guys on the sidebooms, the cranes, and the backhoes who operate the heavy equipment

Natural Resources committee  Let's say someone is suggesting that they're going to build a pipeline through difficult terrain. Give the NEB the ability to go out and find the right people to give it expert opinion. Have people within its ranks who can give advice to the board. Have the ability to be able to.

Natural Resources committee  I started as a pipefitter.

Natural Resources committee  If you make everything mandatory, there is no fulsomeness in that. You need to have discretion, and the discretion needs to be discretion that the NEB is capable of delivering.

Natural Resources committee  Require someone to use it, but don't prescribe it.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. If they use the best technology, they have to use it appropriately, but let the operator decide what the best technology is.

Natural Resources committee  Let me take a pace back from that. The NEB needs to be resourced and it needs to be able to deal with issues when it needs to deal with them. If the NEB is required to perform a mandatory function, it should be resourced and equipped to do that. If it has some discretion, the dis

Natural Resources committee  You can give them all the discretion in the world, but if give them 46¢, they won't be able to do anything.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you very much for the opportunity. I suppose it's pretty obvious why I'm here. We build pipelines. We're interested in building them. But there's a lot more to the pipeline business for us than a couple of jobs putting some sticks