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Title: Public Awareness and Pipeline Safety


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Public Awareness andPipeline Safety
  • BC Oil Gas Symposium
  • February 27, 2007
  • Dan Kirschner
  • Executive Director

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5335 SW Meadows Rd., 220 Lake Oswego, OR
97035 (503) 624-2160 www.nwga.org NWGA
Members Avista Corporation Cascade Natural Gas
Co. Intermountain Gas Co. NW Natural Puget Sound
Energy Duke Energy Gas Transmission Terasen
Gas TransCanadas GTN System Williams NW Pipeline
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Public Awareness and Pipeline Safety
  • Publics right to know where pipelines are
  • Understand and assess risk
  • Partner in safety
  • Owners responsibility to operate safely and
    securely
  • Ensuring the public has access to appropriate and
    useful information
  • How much information is too much?

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A Little History
  • June, 1999 Bellingham, WA petroleum pipeline
    explosion kills three young people, June 1999
  • August, 2000 Carlsbad, NM natural gas pipeline
    explosion kills twelve people
  • September 11, 2001
  • December, 2002 Pipeline Safety Improvement Act
    signed requiring Public Awareness efforts

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Public Awareness Drivers
  • Enlightened Self-Interest
  • Improved Pipeline Safety
  • Enhanced Damage Prevention
  • Effective Emergency Response
  • Emergency Contacts
  • Federal mandate 02 Pipeline Safety Improvement
    Act
  • OPS incorporated API RP 1162 in 49 CFR Parts 192
    and 195
  • RP 1162 a set of guidelines/best practices for
    Public Awareness programs developed by
  • Industry representatives
  • Office of Pipeline Safety
  • National Assn. of Pipeline Safety Representatives
  • Public stakeholders

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Establishing a Baseline
  • WUTC-commissioned research questions
  • What do people who live along pipelines NEED to
    know?
  • What do they WANT to know?
  • How can we BEST keep them informed?
  • Research methodology
  • Review existing published data
  • Key Leader/Organizational interviews
  • Public Opinion Research
  • 500 Statewide 400 Pipeline error /- 4.5
  • Focus groups

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WUTC Key Leader Survey
  • Includes 31 Interviews
  • Elected and state agency officials, local
    governments, operators and advocacy groups
  • Weighted toward residents/activists and first
    responders
  • Findings
  • No clear consensus on how to deliver message.
  • Message delivery seems to be disparate,
    uncoordinated, difficult to access
  • Local community involvement is paramount
  • People should know
  • Where it is
  • Whats in it
  • Who it serves

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WUTC Stakeholder Survey
  • Includes 201 automated phone surveys
  • Local governments, contractors, community and
    environmental groups, media
  • Findings
  • All messages tested important (70) most
    important
  • Pipeline location
  • How to recognize problems
  • What to do when a problem arises
  • Including emergencies
  • Current processes inadequate to task
  • Should utilize radio, TV, Direct Mail

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WUTC Public Opinion
  • They want to know it all
  • Emergency plans
  • Potential dangers
  • Rights of property owners
  • Who to contact

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What they dont know
  • More than 60 percent living within 1,000 feet of
    major pipeline knew it
  • Only 45 percent said they knew whom to call in a
    pipeline emergency.

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To be or not to be (aware)
  • More likely to strongly agree pipelines essential
  • More likely to strongly believe safer than trucks
    barges
  • More likely to feel safer living near a pipeline
  • More likely to pay attention

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Key to awareness
  • Those aware want to receive information
  • Canvassing direct mail preferred
  • Those unaware want info available when THEY want
    it

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Who has the trust?
1 No trust 5great trust
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WUTC Recommendations
  • Cohesive, coordinated message
  • Use existing communication channels
  • Unite expertise with credibility
  • Focus on personal contacts
  • One-stop information location
  • Common visual tool/branding

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RP 1162 Principle Objectives
  • Make public education and pipeline awareness
    campaigns along pipeline routes more effective by
    standardizing frequency and content
  • Provide recommended baseline public awareness
    program and guidance for determining supplemental
    activities
  • Provide guidance for evaluating program
    effectiveness and continuous improvement

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So, Whats the Rub?
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Making Useful Information Available Without
Comprising Security
  • Post Bham, pre 9/11
  • NPMS to the web
  • WA Pipeline Safety Act calls for creation of
    statewide geospatial (GIS) database
  • For first responders/local jurisdictions
  • Post 9/11
  • Retrench recognition of CEII and securing
    certain information from disclosure
  • Present

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Federal
  • PHMSA finalizing process of re-posting NPMS data
    to the web with restrictions
  • Data sharing restrictions will be lifted for
    county and local government users
  • Nothing will change for Federal users, state
    users, and pipeline operator users

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Proposed General Public Access
  • Public may view NPMS maps for one county per
    session
  • Adjacent county pipeline data will be hidden
  • Level of detail limited to 124,000
  • Certain layers will be removed
  • Unusually Sensitive Areas
  • Public facilities (schools, nursing homes, etc.)
  • Quads and aerial photographs
  • Public will not have access to raw (downloadable)
    data

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Public users may only view one county at a
time (Shown here Onondanga Co., NY)
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Public users can zoom to 124,000 scale
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Publicly Viewable Pipeline Attributes
  • Operator ID and name
  • System and subsystem name
  • Commodity
  • Inter/intrastate designation
  • Status In service/abandoned/retired

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Data Sharing Policy
  • Retain nondisclosure agreement for state/federal
    officials requesting raw data
  • Revise policy for county/local officials
    requesting raw data
  • One county only
  • No restrictions in sharing the data can display
    data on public web site if desired
  • May not make data available for downloading

25
Washington State
  • Leader in pipeline safety and public awareness
    efforts
  • Bellingham legacy
  • Citizens Committee
  • Pipeline Safety Trust
  • Maps and map images publicly available since 2004
  • Maps on the web

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User interface www.wutc.wa.gov/pipelinemaps
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County
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124,000
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What about the raw data?
State-wide, including
  • Attributes
  • Diameter
  • MaOP
  • Pipe wall thickness
  • Manufacturer
  • Installation date
  • Commodity
  • Coating
  • Seam type
  • AND, certain features

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Disposition of Raw data
  • Subject to public disclosure
  • An artifact of law not intentional
  • Feds dont but cant preempt state
  • No other state treats data similarly
  • BC, AB carefully managed
  • Managing the situation
  • Seek voluntary withdrawal of data requests
  • Legislation
  • Litigation

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Conclusion
  • Striking the right balance
  • Public Awareness Is Important
  • Investing in
  • Informing partners
  • First responders
  • RoW landowners/residents
  • Providing communities with appropriate, useful
    information
  • Maps and map images
  • Certain information must be secured
  • Shared with regulators
  • Otherwise shared with discretion and conditionally

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5335 SW Meadows Rd., 220 Lake Oswego, OR
97035 (503) 624-2160 www.nwga.org NWGA
Members Avista Corporation Cascade Natural Gas
Co. Intermountain Gas Co. NW Natural Puget Sound
Energy Duke Energy Gas Transmission Terasen
Gas TransCanadas GTN System Williams NW Pipeline
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