Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for that question. In the approval, Enbridge, on Line 9B, had conditions attached to that approval. For two of the conditions in particular, numbers 16 and 18, the board was not satisfied with the responses that were received and studied them very carefully.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that question. A key aspect is that the board finds itself in a position to make a recommendation to cabinet for a major project that the project is in the public interest and that it can be built and operated safely. There's a lot of oversight and back-and-forth t

Natural Resources committee  I don't suppose I can comment on that very well, as we're very early in this exercise. The NEB takes very seriously the requirement to understand and track what Canadians are looking for in terms of the public interest. As was mentioned by Madam Touchette and the chair, this is

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for that question, a very interesting and timely one. It could be phrased as regulatory excellence. We see other energy regulators referring to it as world-class regulatory capabilities, or best in class, so we are very interested in working and maintaining c

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. That's initiated by project description, which is a pre-application overview of the project. We require those in order to provide Canadians with enough information to decide whether they will be interested. They need to know roughly where the pipeline will go, what t

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I mentioned earlier the National Energy Board's online filing manual. That's where it all starts. One example of what that filing manual requires is the companies' need to go out to talk to people along the proposed route, typically a corridor that co

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for that question. When the National Energy Board is reviewing a facility application, the main requirement is that the board be convinced that the final design and construction operation of the pipeline can be done in a safe way and protects people and the e

Natural Resources committee  The block valves or sectionalizing valves are a very important part of any pipeline. They are typically the main use. The most most frequent use is to isolate sections of a pipeline during normal operation when maintenance is required, so the pipeline can be emptied, maintained,

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question and comments. I would like to start by pointing out that the Plains midstream incident was an Alberta-regulated pipeline—

Natural Resources committee  Yes. It was a very large spill, and otherwise as you described. I don't think that diminishes any of the concerns or learning that anyone may have, but it was not an NEB-regulated one. I think everything else, I would say, would apply anyway. The Wrigley incident is an interest

Natural Resources committee  Yes, you are quite right about that. The NEB assigned a member to then engage the communities, and we spent a lot of time with the communities along that section. The pipe has been repaired and all the sections of concern have either been repaired with a sleeve or cut out and r

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that question. The process starts with the National Energy Board's online filing manual, which is a very extensive document that sets out in great detail the information requirements that the board expects to see with an application for a new energy facility. It r

Natural Resources committee  Certainly, and I am a biologist, not an engineer, so I'll speak in very general terms about the materials part.

Natural Resources committee  The Canadian standard CSA Z662 is the pipeline standard. It goes into great and specific detail about the requirements for materials, such as steel strength, toughness, etc. You need to recognize that these things will all be specific to the application that's being considered, w

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Thank you for the question. Our reading of the bill is that it's quite clear that a panel of the National Energy Board struck for a facility hearing would make the call, based on the individual circumstances, as to who is directly affected. That's how we read the bill.