Environment committee  Let's put it this way, there are two aspects to look at. One is that the potential capital investment in the transmission pipeline industry is around $170 billion, when you look at the various projects that have been proposed and the potential. When you trickle that down to local

Environment committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to present to this committee. This point in time represents the culmination of a long process of consultation, of input and so on, and a process that CEPA, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association.... It also represents 97% of the volume m

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  The industry does emergency response exercises. They have the resources. The government has put in place additional resources, and that's going to be taken care of.

Transport committee  I think there is a need to go back and do more consulting, more science, and more evaluation of what this really means and what the implications are. I think there's not a consensus around whether or not the folks in northern B.C. should have access to tidewater to produce resour

Transport committee  In terms of the maritime movement of oil cargo and so on, there are international standards and there are processes. Canada abides by them. The international shipping coordinators and regulatory bodies have those regulations in place. There are thousands of vessels all over the w

Transport committee  It's incumbent upon the shippers, the pipelines, to have emergency response plans in place. There are two things. There is a requirement for the companies to have the financial resources to be prepared and be able to cover anticipated or possible emergencies. There is mutual aid

Transport committee  There is one more nine.

Transport committee  It's calculated based on the actual volume. Annually, there are about 1.2 billion barrels of oil shipped, and about five and a half trillion cubic feet of gas. That's what the numbers are based on.

Transport committee  The most recent was in 2010, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was in the billions-of-dollars range, but it was cleaned up. It's back to its original state.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  I think it's a matter of economics and markets. I think the cost to refine in Canada to be competitive and have those products delivered to the relevant markets is.... You just mentioned that three refineries were taken out of Burnaby. There was refining in the past, and there's

Transport committee  Good afternoon. Thanks very much for the opportunity to speak with you today. I'm Chris Bloomer, president and CEO of CEPA, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. We represent Canada's 11 major transmission pipeline companies. We transport 97% of Canada's natural gas and cru

Finance committee  Well, I don't know about the subsidy part, but I know that ongoing development, certainly in Montney, Duvernay, northeast B.C., and so on, will lay the groundwork for the long-term ability to bring infrastructure up to the north. This is a long-term game. One thing that we woul

Finance committee  That is correct. As an association, when that first came out, our statement was exactly as you have outlined, that it was outside their purview.