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PIPELINE OPERATORS

Background | Issues | Solutions

Background

Pipeline Operators need to know about land use planning and development near their infrastructure to align with their regulations.

Damage Prevention Regulations - Development and construction near infrastructure can cause potential damage or disturbance.

Class Location Considerations - Development can mean increased population and infrastructure that can impact the safety and design of a pipe.

Stakeholder Collaboration - Operators need to collaborate with development stakeholders early in the planning process.

Municipalities, developers, and landowners plan and develop their land long in advance of actual development occurring.

Stakeholder Consideration - Development entitities must consider anyone with influence and acknowledge the limitations of development on that land whether it be existing landowners, infrastructure interests, social interests, or the general public interest.

Planning for Growth - Municipalities expand boundaries and redevelop in order to accommodate population, economic development, and fund taxpayer services.

Land Development - Developers and landowners have the right to develop lands in accordance with land use bylaws.

The Issues

Inadequate collaboration early in the planning process between operators and development stakeholders is caused by a lack of knowledge of pipeline operator obligations, and a lack of knowledge of the planning process. This leads to a number of of issues.

Issues for Pipeline Operators

- Potential damage to infrastructure
- Unaware of potential class location changes leads to costly and untimely upgrades
- Emergency response and access concerns
- Missing out on collaboration opportunities creating frustration when not properly engaged
- Use costly resources to deal with issues that could have been mitigated
- Damaging relationships with stakeholders
- Damaging brand and company integrity

Issues for Municipalities, Developers and Landowners

- Frustration over lack of engagement
- May not be aware of the implication of development on pipelines
- Use costly resources to deal with issues that could have been mitigated
- Are required to properly engage with and consider the needs of stakeholders
- Can experience costly delays in development

Our Solutions

Pipeline operators need real tangible, cost-effective, and real solutions to help address these issues.

Let's work together to rewrite the story of development and create better outcomes for all stakeholders.

Development Filtering and Land Use Monitoring Program

Pipeline infrastructure impacts hundreds of development stakeholders (municipalities, First Nations, and infrastructure organizations). Development stakeholders send out hundreds of development notifications on a daily basis.

Pipeline operators need to know about, manage, and respond to the development notifications that impact their infrastructure - but they also need to maintain integrity with hundreds of development stakeholders by responding to all notifications.

Our programming provides filtering, notification, collaboration, and management of development notifications and land use monitoring for pipeline operators:

Find out about development early, review, and respond to all development impacting pipeline infrastructure
An integrity-based solution for operators to ensure they don't miss development notifications and land use changes
Proactively get involved in the planning process
Improve collaboration and stakeholder accountability
Take advantage of our simplified processes, support internal resourcing, and alleviate the burden and issues for operators and their development stakeholders

The ProACTIVE Portal is our proprietary, secure web-based portal that is specifically designed to filter, manage, and coordinate responses for each operator
Affordable solutions based on automation and efficiency
Accredited Registered Planning Professionals assist operators to further understand how their infrastructure is currently and will be impacted by existing and future development
GIS is at the forefront of everything we do in the program from data management to web mapping
Engagement focused on education and relationship building with all development stakeholders ensures better collaboration on regulations and obligations

Land Use Monitoring

Visualizing land use provides a prediction of how development will likely progress, impacting class location and potential damage to infrastructure. The Canadian Energy Regulator Damage Prevention regulations, pipeline operators' damage prevention programs must include ongoing monitoring of any changes in the use of the land on which a pipeline is located, as well as the land adjacent to it. (Obligations of Pipeline Operators: Section 16 (b)).

We provide a comprehensive online GIS platform that incorporates existing and changing urban and rural land use in the vicinity of pipeline infrastructure.

ProACTIVE Reporting and Class Location Prediction Assessments

Development and growth is planned many years in advance of development actually occurring.

Pipeline operators and their infrastructure is impacted by the surrounding development environment, including:

Class location suitability
Potential damage to infrastructure
Emergency and Right-of-Way access design
Stakeholder relationships

ProACTIVE Reports are comprehensive reports of the key attributes of existing and planned development implications that may have an impact on class location and potential pipeline damage. Class Location Prediction Assessments are chronological spatial summaries of development and specific class variable criteria discovered through the ProACTIVE Reporting process.

In-depth analysis of details and timing of development and growth
Completed for any length of existing infrastructure
CER Primary Assessment for Class Change assistance:
- Description of the development with class location assessment area including number and type of dwelling units, outside areas, or buildings
- Damage prevention activities at the location of the pipeline segment subject class increase
- Identification of future locations of potentially damaging activity
- Identification of existing and future schools, hospitals, day homes, assisted living facilities, prisons, or other facilities that may be difficult to rapidly evacuate

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Did You Know!

ProACTIVE has completed over 10,000 kms of reports and assessments across Canada!

Reports and assessments are completed through:

Comprehensive engagement with municipalities, First Nations, developers, and government agencies
All key attributes for each development implication are managed through:
- structured reporting,
- managed databases,
- crafted GIS deliverables

Municipal and Developer Education and Engagement

The issues start with a lack of knowledge of the obligations of pipeline operators. Municipalities and developers need to know about the regulations, obligations, and impact that development has on pipeline operators.

We have extensive facilitation and education experience with municipalities, planners, developers, First Nations, regulatory bodies and organizations.

ProACTIVE's diverse background and respect for the stakeholders' experience enables us to effectively provide the education needed.

Education Sessions

ProACTIVE has presented to hundreds of diverse stakeholders. Some of those include:

City of Edmonton
City of Burnaby
City of Toronto
City of Hamilton
City of Regina
Strathcona County

Canada Energy Regulator
Canadian Energy Pipeline Assocation
Banff Pipeline Workshop
Canadian Gas Association
Canadian Common Ground Alliance
Alberta Professional Planners Institute

SOLUTIONS FOR​ PIPELINE OPERATORS