{"id":5636,"date":"2015-02-13T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2015-02-13T06:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:30:35","slug":"what-kinder-morgan-is-keeping-secret-about-its-trans-mountain-spill-response-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5636","title":{"rendered":"What Kinder Morgan is Keeping Secret About its Trans Mountain Spill Response Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.ca\/2015\/02\/12\/what-kinder-morgan-keeping-secret-about-its-trans-mountain-spill-response-plans-and-why-it-s-utterly-ridiculous\" target=\"_blank\">What Kinder Morgan is Keeping Secret About its Trans Mountain Spill Response Plans<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Kinder Morgan, the company currently seeking permission to nearly triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline to carry Albertan crude to the west coast, has engaged in a protracted fight with the province of British Columbia in an effort\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.ca\/2015\/01\/19\/national-energy-board-rules-kinder-morgan-can-keep-pipeline-emergency-plans-secret-weakens-faith-process\">to keep its oil spill response plans a secret<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company alleges its motivation has to do with \u2018security concerns\u2019 although a look back at the to and fro with the province of\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">B.C.<\/span>\u00a0paints a story of either incompetence or pure, defenseless\u00a0hubris.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, what Kinder Morgan is refusing to produce for\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">B.C.<\/span>\u00a0and other intervenors in the pipeline review process, the company\u00a0<a href=\"ftp:\/\/ecy.wa.gov\/spills\/C-plans\/KinderMorganCanadaTMPLDec2014EmerResponsePlan.pdf\">willingly disclosed<\/a>\u00a0south of the border for portions of the pipeline that extend to Washington\u00a0State.<\/p>\n<p>A read through the detailed spill response plans Kinder Morgan has in place for the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span>\u00a0shows just how far the company went to prove they can handle a pipeline\u00a0spill.<\/p>\n<p>It also highlights how outlandish it is that Kinder Morgan has not released similarly-detailed plans to the province of\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">B.C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is also troubling that Kinder Morgan expects the government of\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">B.C.<\/span>\u00a0to consent to a massive pipeline expansion \u2014 the proposal calls for a twinning of the pipeline which would lead to a fivefold increase in tanker traffic \u2014 without adequate assurances the best available emergency plans are in\u00a0place.<\/p>\n<p>So, what did\u00a0<a href=\"ftp:\/\/ecy.wa.gov\/spills\/C-plans\/KinderMorganCanadaTMPLDec2014EmerResponsePlan.pdf\">Kinder Morgan tell Washington State<\/a>\u00a0that it refuses to tell\u00a0B.C.?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Kinder Morgan is Keeping Secret About its Trans Mountain Spill Response Plans Kinder Morgan, the company currently seeking permission to nearly triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline to carry Albertan crude to the west coast, has engaged in a protracted fight with the province of British Columbia in an effort\u00a0to keep its 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