Compliance verification activity type: Emergency Response Exercise
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Regulated company: Many Islands Pipe Lines (Canada) Limited
Operating company: Many Islands Pipe Lines (Canada) Limited
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Ensure MIPL is prepared to respond to an emergency. Verify that response actions are based on the EPM and company procedures; assess whether the EPM and procedures protect the health and safety of the public and responders, property and the environment; determine whether exercise objectives were met; and ensure that no effects or potential effects result from participants’ actions or lack of actions. Verify that improvements have been made since the previous CER exercise evaluation under CV1819-152.
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Observation 1 - MIPL Full Scale Exercise
Date & time of visit: 2022-05-18 08:00
Discipline: Emergency Management
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MIPL Full Scale Exercise Two Canada Energy Regulator (CER) Inspection Officers (IO) attended the Many Islands Pipeline Limited (MIPL) full scale exercise on May 18, 2022, in Regina and Macklin, Saskatchewan. MIPL’s exercise had both an Incident Command Post (ICP) component in Regina and a field response that involved mobilizing personnel and equipment to a simulated response to a natural gas release near Macklin. The field component exercised a multi-agency response as the RCMP, and both Macklin and Unity Fire Departments played active roles. The exercise met the CSA Z246.2 definition of a full-scale exercise. MIPL staff, participants and observers began the exercise with introductions and a land acknowledgement provided by MIPL. A safety briefing was held which informed on-site participants of locations of bathrooms, evacuation routes, the building’s muster point, and the location of automated external defibrillators in the building. Certified first aid staff were also identified. The exercise goals and objectives, as stated below, were reviewed. The exercise scenario was that a farmer had struck the MIPL line, causing a release of sweet natural gas – there is no ignition of the released natural gas. It was noted by CER staff and confirmed in discussion with MIPL, and stated in their emergency response plan, that MIPL uses an incident management system that is based on the Incident Command System (ICS), having been tailored to meet MIPL’s needs. Parenthesis will be used where there is a difference of terminology between ICS and the MIPL system for clarity and greater awareness of their management system. The objectives MIPL established for this exercise were:
Compliance tool used: No compliance tool used
Identified non-compliances to company plans or procedures are non-compliances either to:
- the condition of an authorization document that requires the implementation of that plan or procedure; or
- the relevant section of the regulations that requires implementation of that plan or procedure including those sections that require implementation of plans or procedures as a part of a Program