From: HuffPost
CBC
A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the
federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture
on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline.
On July 20, 2009, the Peace River Mainline in northern Alberta
exploded, sending 50-metre-tall flames into the air and razing a
two-hectare wooded area.
Few people ever learned of the rupture — one of the largest in the
past decade — other than the Dene Tha’ First Nation, whose traditional
territory it happened on.
In an early 2011 draft report about the incident, the National
Energy Board criticized TransCanada, the operator of the line owned by
its subsidiary NOVA Gas Transmission, for “inadequate” field inspections
and “ineffective” management.
Final reports are typically published by the investigative bodies,
either the NEB or the Transportation Safety Board, but this report
wasn’t released until this January when the CBC obtained it through an
access-to-information request.
The NEB said the delay was caused by an “administrative error” when an employee left without transferring the file over. MORE
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