[All] Fw: Pipeline Safety Survey - Help Improve Access To Pipeline Safety Information in Canada

[Louisette Lanteigne]

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From: carl at pstrust.org
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:04:47 -0800
Subject: Pipeline Safety Survey - Help Improve Access To Pipeline Safety Information in Canada
To: carl at pstrust.org

Greetings.  We are the Pipeline Safety Trust and we are emailing you today to ask for your input on a pipeline safety indicator project. 

A little bit about us…  The Pipeline Safety Trust is the only non-profit organization in North American that focuses on improving pipeline safety from a public interest point of view. We were born out of a criminal settlement of a pipeline disaster in Bellingham, Washington where a pipeline killed three children playing in a park. You can learn more about us at http://www.pstrust.org. 

Because of heightened public interest in existing pipelines due to recent failures, proposals to build new pipelines, and associated issues such as climate change and fracking, the industry and regulators are struggling to understand their apparent loss of social license, and have slowly come to recognize the need for greater transparency of accurate information. We want to use this opportunity to establish indicators of pipeline safety that are meaningful to the Canadian public. The National Energy Board (NEB) and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) have both agreed to consider adopting the indicators we recommend, along with working to produce all the data necessary to compile the indicators and make them easily available to the public.

Our first step in establishing the pipeline safety indicators is to get input from interested members of the public. We want to identify what basic information people are interested in knowing about when it comes to the safety of the large transmission pipelines in their communities.

We hope you will take a few minutes to complete this survey so we can help push for greater transparency of information regarding pipelines in Canada and provide that information in ways that are helpful to citizens that want to better understand pipelines and increase pipeline safety.  We have asked an independent research firm - Applied Research Northwest - to host this survey.  Your responses will be anonymous and tabulated with other respondents as a group.


Here is the link to the survey:  http://survey.arnorthwest.com/pipelinesafety


In addition to taking the survey, we would also like to ask you to forward this email to colleagues and friends who you think may be interested and have feedback to contribute. 


Thanks so much for your help!
Carl

Carl Weimer, Executive Director
Pipeline Safety Trust
carl at pstrust.org
http://www.pstrust.org
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