Oil spill
Добавлено: 24 июл 2007, 16:59
Oil spill By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun
Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A contractor doing storm sewer work in Burnaby inadvertently struck a Kinder Morgan Canada-operated pipeline carrying oil to its Burrard Inlet ship loading terminal spilling thousands of litres of oil and touching off an evacuation of the immediate area.
RCMP described the piece of pipeline struck as an oil head located in the area of Inlet Drive and Ridge Avenue in Burnaby, which spewed oil beneath the Barnet Highway.
Kinder Morgan Canada spokesman Philippe Reicher said the pipeline is part of the network that carries oil from the Trans Mountain pipeline terminus on the south side of Burnaby Mountain to its Westridge ship loading terminal.
The burst pipeline is spewing oil into a Burnaby neighbourhood.
Reicher said pipeline operators noticed the break soon after it occurred around 12:30 p.m. today and shut off the flow.
However, witnesses described the torrent that did escape as a "river" of oil that was pouring into Burrard Inlet, according to a report on radio station News 1130.
Reicher added company personnel are on site along with a hazardous materials team and the Burnaby fire department.
Meanwhile, emergency officials are evacuating homes from the west of Inlet Drive and along Ridge, Belcarra, Malibu Drive, and North Cliff Crescent.
© Vancouver Sun 2007
Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A contractor doing storm sewer work in Burnaby inadvertently struck a Kinder Morgan Canada-operated pipeline carrying oil to its Burrard Inlet ship loading terminal spilling thousands of litres of oil and touching off an evacuation of the immediate area.
RCMP described the piece of pipeline struck as an oil head located in the area of Inlet Drive and Ridge Avenue in Burnaby, which spewed oil beneath the Barnet Highway.
Kinder Morgan Canada spokesman Philippe Reicher said the pipeline is part of the network that carries oil from the Trans Mountain pipeline terminus on the south side of Burnaby Mountain to its Westridge ship loading terminal.
The burst pipeline is spewing oil into a Burnaby neighbourhood.
Reicher said pipeline operators noticed the break soon after it occurred around 12:30 p.m. today and shut off the flow.
However, witnesses described the torrent that did escape as a "river" of oil that was pouring into Burrard Inlet, according to a report on radio station News 1130.
Reicher added company personnel are on site along with a hazardous materials team and the Burnaby fire department.
Meanwhile, emergency officials are evacuating homes from the west of Inlet Drive and along Ridge, Belcarra, Malibu Drive, and North Cliff Crescent.
© Vancouver Sun 2007