Northern Pipeline Socio-Economic and Environmental Terms and Conditions for the Swift River Portion of the Pipeline in the Province of British Columbia (SI/81-21)

• 100. (1) Foothills shall, when clearing any area for construction, take measures to minimize to the satisfaction of the designated officer the operation of any machinery along or across any permanent or intermittent river or stream channel.

• (2) Foothills shall not skid any logs along or across any unfrozen permanent river or stream channel or along any unfrozen intermittent stream channel.

101. Foothills shall dispose of any debris resulting from the clearing of vegetation by Foothills in such manner as is satisfactory to the designated officer.

102. Foothills shall not pile any debris resulting from the construction of the pipeline in a manner that creates a continuous barrier to big game animal movements.

103. Foothills shall

• (a) establish procedures satisfactory to the designated officer to minimize the possibility of an accident occurring during the storage, handling and use of fuel or any other hazardous material;

• (b) locate, in a manner satisfactory to the designated officer, storage and handling sites for fuel and hazardous material to minimize any contamination of any waterbody set out in the list referred to in section 70, any fish habitat set out in the list referred to in subsection 76(1) or any important fish harvesting area; and

• (c) establish procedures satisfactory to the designated officer to contain and clean up any fuel or other hazardous material spilled, misused or allowed to escape.

104. Foothills shall not, in constructing the pipeline,

• (a) use bladder tanks to store fuel; or

• (b) store fuel within 300 m of a waterbody unless it has obtained the approval of the designated officer.

• 105. (1) Where Foothills uses a fuel storage area containing any above-ground tank exceeding 5 000 l in capacity, Foothills shall surround that area by a dyke of reinforced concrete or a dyke of earth lined with plastic or other impervious material.

• (2) Foothills shall, in constructing a dyke referred to in subsection (1), comply with any requirements established by the designated officer for the design and location of the dyke and of the area that it surrounds.

• 106. (1) Where Foothills stores more than 5 000 l of fuel in storage facilities at any place, it shall

  • (a) establish procedures satisfactory to the designated officer to detect any loss of fuel from such storage facilities; and

  • (b) record all fuel transfers to and from such facilities.

• (2) Where Foothills determines that a loss of fuel has occurred from a storage facility referred to in subsection (1), it shall investigate the cause of such loss and take such measures as are satisfactory to the designated officer to prevent further loss.

• 107. (1) Foothills shall establish procedures satisfactory to the designated officer to detect any loss of hazardous material at any storage or handling facility used by Foothills.

• (2) Where there is any loss of hazardous material referred to in subsection (1), Foothills shall investigate the cause of the loss and take such measures as are satisfactory to the designated officer to prevent further loss.