The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday, May 26, edition that tank-farm accident expert Ivan Vince says in a study paid for by the City of Burnaby, that Enbridge rival Kinder Morgan underestimated
the risk of a worst-case-scenario
fire at its Burnaby tank
farm in its application to expand
the facility. The Globe's Mike Hager writes that Dr. Vince says Kinder barely
assessed the "show-stopping"
risk of such a fire. Burnaby will
file the report on Wednesday to
the National Energy Board as part
of its submissions opposing Trans
Mountain's expansion. Dr. Vince says, "The only way they could
possibly excuse not including this
in their analysis and conclusions
is if they show that it was so unlikely
as to be incredible."
That would mean the
chance of such a fire happening
was about one in one million
each year. However, Dr.
Vince's analysis showed that if
the tank farm was expanded to
include 13 more storage tanks (for
a total of 26), the annual risk of
such a fire would be one in 2,000.
Dr. Vince says
British authorities would not
approve a proposal like Kinder
Morgan's that lies so close to a
residential neighbourhood.
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