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 you what's going on in every bit of their pipeline in pretty much real time. When something goes wrong, they either have a number of automatic systems that will shut things down, reroute them, or do whatever is needed, or the human beings who are there will be in a position to do something. After that, it is the workforce that is being maintained by the operator that will go out and do the spill containment. The person on the ground—in the navy we would call that the on-scene commander—probably has a better appreciation of what is going on than the guy back in his office somewhere. That was my point.
On March 31st, 2015. See this statement in context.