Mr. Chairman, if I have the leeway, I could comment on the industry, because also in my previous life I was in the pipeline industry and a construction superintendent for northern British Columbia with BC Gas.
Everything has changed. For the pipe integrity, right from the factories in Regina now, it's a whole new process in how the steel is produced and how the pipe is made. We used to wrap the pipe for corrosion protection with tar paper. It's now epoxied right onto the pipe. That's the same thing.... I would speak very briefly. Almost 22 years ago, the Exxon Valdez disaster in Prince William Sound was an incredible environmental disaster, there's no question. It hasn't happened since, because the rules changed the next day.
One good thing about us as humankind is that we learn from our mistakes. Some 90% of the world's oil moves around on tankers. They're taking it to the tankers by pipeline. I hope our technical people come to supply the technical stuff on the numbers. The volumes of oil on a chart go upwards, and the incidents have gone down, because we learn. It's a changed world.
There was a report done. Unfortunately, I only perused it, because it was quite lengthy. The occurrence for a spill was one in two hundred years or something like that. Mr. Sterritt talked about the worst-case scenario, and I think it was like a perfect storm; it was about one in two thousand. Those technical numbers are available to the committee through the submission that Enbridge has already made to the JRP.