Canadian Energy Regulator Pipeline Damage Prevention Regulations – Obligations of Pipeline Companies

Marginal note:Facilities and ground disturbances

• 12 (1) The pipeline company must keep a record of all construction of facilities across, on, along or under a pipeline and of all activities that cause a ground disturbance within the prescribed area for the life of the pipeline.

• Marginal note:Contents of records

  (2) The records must include, for each facility or each activity that causes a ground disturbance, as the case may be,

  • (a) the name and address of the person that carries out the construction or engages in an activity that causes a ground disturbance;

  • (b) the nature and location of the facility or the activity that causes a ground disturbance;

  • (c) the dates of commencement and termination of the construction of the facility or the activity that causes a ground disturbance;

  • (d) a description of the proposed facility, submitted with the request for the consent;

  • (e) a copy of the pipeline company’s written consent;

  • (f) in respect of the inspections referred to in paragraphs 8(a) and (b), all findings and observations, including

    • (i) the name of the person that conducted the inspection,

    • (ii) the date and time of the inspection, and

    • (iii) any field observations referred to in paragraph 8(c);

  • (g) a statement of whether the person that carried out the construction or the person that engaged in an activity that caused a ground disturbance has complied with the measures set out in the Canadian Energy Regulator Pipeline Damage Prevention Regulations – Authorizations; and

  • (h) the details of any abandonment, removal or alteration of the facility.

• Marginal note:Consent — crossings

  (3) The pipeline company must keep a record that contains a copy of the written consents granted by the pipeline company for the purposes of section 12 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Pipeline Damage Prevention Regulations – Authorizations for the life of the pipeline or, if there is an expiry date set out in the consent, for a period of 12 months from the day on which the consent expires.

• Marginal note:Locations

  (4) The pipeline company must keep a record of the locations that are identified under section 7.