Transport committee  Maybe I'll answer that. I was involved with that committee, with the FCM and the Railway Association, and you have to distinguish between information for emergency planning purposes, which is the protective direction, which says that once a year the railroads will provide a quar

Transport committee  As Chief Boissonneault said, once we get this information then that will be a big improvement over what occurred before. Frankly, the big change has been the increase in the crude volumes, and those will continue to increase. That was a significant change that wasn't recognized b

Transport committee  I think we're in the investigation mode to try and find out. I don't want to leave the impression that there are no codes at all, we're simply not aware of which codes. When these facilities are built...and some of them are described as mom-and-pop operations with a pump and truc

Transport committee  As I said, during the ERAP working group, transloads was not identified as an issue. It was basically the railcars and the movement of the goods. But it did come up at a meeting in Calgary a couple of weeks ago and it is a concern with the railways, and now it's something that ha

Transport committee  To expand on that, the ERAP process includes a requirement for training and resources to be provided. That's why we look at the ERAP as a key to making sure that when an incident occurs, those resources are provided by the transporters or the shippers of the product and that it d

Transport committee  The task force's terms of reference haven't been finalized, but certainly if that's one of the areas that needs to be looked at I suggest that it should be included in the terms of reference as part of the work.

Transport committee  Thank you. The issue of the transload didn't initially come up with the review from the ERAP working group, but it certainly has been identified as a concern, particularly in western Canada because apparently there are about 80 transloads currently in place and being constructed

Transport committee  Basically, because it's a fixed facility, in most instances it's the property owner. For example, in a building, if you're required to have sprinkler systems or fire alarm systems, it's a cost of the construction of the building. So it should be the property owner and they may ha

Transport committee  Yes, I would agree. The trouble is that there doesn't seem to be, at this time, any identified standard to which they're built. There may be. I've asked the National Fire Protection Association, which writes most of the standards for fire protection, to research that and advise

Transport committee  Thank you. I think we identified in the ERAP working group report that we need more data. We need to know the routes being used by the rails to transport this, the volumes, and the frequency. This is something we hope the ERAP task force will be able to achieve. There is a gap