[All] Fw: One Billion is not enough: Pipeline Liability & need to update CPCN Cert

[Lanteigne]

 I received this letter from CER Chair Peter Watson in response to a correspondence I sent about Enbridge's lack of insurance. 
They blow lots of smoke in their response letter but my view, unless there is an actual contract to back up a contractual obligation words are not enough to protect communities. 

Louisette Lanteigne

   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Lanteigne <water.lulu at yahoo.ca>To: Jacqueline.Vanhouche at cer-rec.gc.ca <jacqueline.vanhouche at cer-rec.gc.ca>Cc: Jacqueline Vanhouche <jacqueline.vanhouche at cer-rec.gc.ca>; Justin Trudeau <justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca>; chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca <chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca>; Seamus.ORegan at parl.gc.ca <seamus.oregan at parl.gc.ca>Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 10:30:02 a.m. ESTSubject: One Billion is not enough: Pipeline Liability & need to update CPCN Cert
 Dear Hon Prime Minister and Ministers. 
Line 9 goes in front of York University, over top Finch Subway Station, it crosses downtown Toronto and it flows upstream of Darlington Nuclear plant. 
If a spill happens in any of one of these areas or oil gets into the intake of Darlington or Pickering, one Billion won't reasonably cover the costs of the spill or the associated shut down of York University, Finch Subway Station, lost property values in Downtown Toronto or a lengthy shut down of a nuclear plant.
The pipeline is at end of life. This infrastructure is a public risk and in my view a National Security issue. We lack the proper safeguards to reasonably address these risks and we lack reasonable liability coverage.
Who at this point in time, has the legal contractual obligation here? Who's name is literally on the CPCN certificate? If a damn piece of paper can protect us better, my advice is that we need to take the time and effort to get that writing down and signed. We need the legal names recorded that the people who own it are unquestionably contractually obligated to cover the total costs. It's their corporate risk not ours to assume. They want to work with Canada make them assume their own liability risks.  
Louisette Lanteigne700 Star Flower Ave. Waterloo Ont.N2V 2L2. 

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  On Wed., 29 Jan. 2020 at 9:30 a.m., Jacqueline Vanhouche<Jacqueline.Vanhouche at cer-rec.gc.ca> wrote:    
Good morning,
 
 
 
Please find attached a letter from Peter Watson, Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Energy Regulator.  
 
 
 
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.
 
  
 
Best regards, 
 
  
 
Jacqueline Vanhouche
 
Executive Assistant to the CEO / Adjointe exécutive au président-directeur général
Executive Office / Bureau de la direction
 
  
 
Tel.: 403-299-2725 / Tél.: 403-299-2725
Email / Courriel: Jacqueline.Vanhouche at cer-rec.gc.ca
 
Suite 210, 517 Tenth Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2R 0A8
 
517, Dixième Avenue S.-O., bureau 210, Calgary (Alberta) T2R 0A8
 
  
 

 
  
   
  
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