KINDER MORGANCANADA LIMITED Annual Newsletter to Emergency Responders Fall 2017 - Volume 10

Canadian edition

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

◊ BurnabyTerminalexercise

◊ BCwildfireresponseassistance

◊ Firetrainingschool◊ Program

enhancements◊ Swiftwatertraining◊ Upcomingexercise

About Kinder Morgan Canada LimitedKinder Morgan Canada Limited (KML) is a leader in energy transportation. Kinder Morgan Canada Inc., an affiliate of KML, operates the 1,150-km Trans Mountain Pipeline, which transports crude oil and refined petroleum products from Edmonton, AB, to Burnaby, BC, and into Whatcom and Skagit Counties in Washington State. Our Trans Mountain Jet Fuel Pipeline transports jet fuel from Burnaby, BC, to the Vancouver International Airport.

‘Full-scale’ emergency response exercise simulated at Burnaby Terminal fulfills regulatory condition

In September 2017, we conducted an emergency response exercise at our Burnaby Terminal in Burnaby, BC, to fulfill a National Energy Board (NEB) condition for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. The full-scale exercise simulated a hypothetical 700-barrel spill caused by a vehicle collision with pipeline infrastructure at the terminal. No oil or simulated product was released during the planned exercise.

The exercise provided an opportunity for our response personnel to practice activating our emergency response plan for the terminal. The drill also included implementing a coordinated response at a staged Incident Command Post. Participants in the exercise included our personnel, NEB, Environment Canada, Transport Canada, BC Oil and Gas Commission and the BC Ministry of Environment.

“As part of the company’s ongoing operations, exercises like these demonstrate how practicing and training prevents pipeline incidents and prepares us for quick response and recovery in the unlikely event of an incident,” said Jamie Kereliuk, Director Emergency Management, Kinder Morgan Canada. “We are proud of our responsible operating history and our long commitment of working together with agencies and first responders to ensure the communities where we operate in are prepared.”

As a federally regulated company, we are required to complete and be evaluated on its emergency response exercises. Each year, we conduct approximately 20 emergency management training sessions which include equipment deployments, tabletop and communication exercises.

The next company emergency drill is scheduled in Jasper, AB, in January 2018. If you are interested in participating, please refer to page 4 of this newsletter for additional details and contact information.

For more information on our training and exercise program, visit: www.kindermorgan.com/pipelinesafety.

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Sharing Knowledge: Emergency Manager Contributes to BC Wildfire Response

Valuable Skills Learned at Fire School Training

An assignment with BC’s wildfire response organization was an important opportunity for Kelly Malinoski.

Malinoski recently worked a six-day shift at BC’s Provincial Emergency Coordination Centre (PECC) in Victoria, BC, after being seconded from her regular duties as Manager Emergency Management for Kinder Morgan Canada. She joined a team of 100 individuals working at the PECC supporting provincial wildfire response efforts.

“PECC is the central coordination and provincial leadership level of the organization. This is the response group that prioritizes provincial government objectives and leads the overall provincial response. It also serves as the co-ordination and communication link with the other response levels and the federal disaster support sys-tem. There were people there from all sectors including the federal government.” Malinoski said.

Malinoski’s tasks included docu-menting fire response actions and briefing PECC members about industry critical infrastructure and activities in areas threatened by fire — as well as the potential consequences for BC of a prolonged shutdown of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. The pipeline delivers a large percentage of the motor fuel used daily by residents in south-western BC.

The BC Wildfire Service described 2017 wildfire season as the worst since record-keeping began in 1950, and a province-wide state of emergency was declared in mid-July.

Malinoski is trained in the Incident Command System (ICS) used by BC to coordinate its response to wildfires and other

provincial emergencies. Kinder Morgan Canada Limited has also developed a robust Emergency Management Program with detailed emergency response plans in place, and regularly carries out emergency response exercises with government and non-government agencies in BC, Alberta and Washington State.

“When I walked through the door at the coordination centre, I was no longer an employee of my compa-ny; I was an employee of the PECC. It shows how far industry has come in its own training and relationship building that the trust is there to lend support to the government’s response efforts when needed,” Malinoski said.

“I believe this experience will strengthen our company’s emer-gency response program as we have gained a better understand-ing of how the province will re-spond and the kinds of information they will be seeking, should there ever be an emergency involving our infrastructure.”

Jamie Kereliuk, Director Emergency Management, Kinder Morgan Canada, said the company was very pleased to contribute to the effort, adding that it was “a great opportunity.”

“Industry has a lot of knowledge and experience in emergency management, and we applauded the province’s decision to involve this very large base of expertise in support of communities affected by the wildfire situation,” Kereliuk said. We are always willing to work together with government to support the communities we operate in. Mutual aid and support in an emergency is a fundamental principle of our company’s Emergency Management Program.”

As part of our ongoing commitment to safety and emergency preparedness, our Emergency Management team attended two fire school training sessions at the Texas A&M Engineering (TEEX) facility in College Station, Texas.

The first session occurred in April and involved liquids storage tank fire training custom-designed for our company. The five-day course included practical fire field training, theory and practical training of stor-age tank construction, fire systems (design, maintenance and opera-tions), tactical deployments (rim seal, full surface and three dimen-sional fires), and incident command for a storage tank incident.

The second session, XTREME industrial fire & hazard training, occurred in June 2017 and was hosted by Williams Fire and Hazard Control. Participants moved from classroom to field rotating through full days of hands-on equipment operations training.

Regular training is integral to our Emergency Management Program to ensure a quick and efficient response. “This was a great opportunity to gain fire response knowledge and practice fire response tactics to implement in the unlikely event of an emergency,” said Ken McLernon, Emergency Management Advisor, Kinder Morgan Canada.

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Planning for the future: Enhancing our Emergency Management Program to Accommodate the Trans Mountain Expansion Project

We continue to enhance our existing Emergency Management Program (EMP) to accommodate requirements for the Trans Moun-tain Expansion Project.

Consultation into the enhancement of the EMP is focused on the pro-gram as a whole as well as the key elements listed below:

• Emergency Response Plans;

• Geographic Response Plans;

• Fire Pre-Plans;

• Fire Safety Plans;

• Training and Exercise Programs, and;

• Equipment Availability.

Updates have recently been incorporated into our EMP as a result of a structured review with stakeholders including Aboriginal communities, landowners and local first responders. Based on consultation and engagement with our stakeholders, enhancements have been made to each of the key elements listed above. An example of the enhancements made is the provision of additional detail and clarity on certain incident notifica-tion procedures:

SafetyDataSheets Information to report about an incident will now include the associ-ated safety data sheets.

Aboriginalcommunitynotifications The Aboriginal community notification procedure clearly identifies the need to consider “First Nations whose Traditional Territory is affected” when notifying external parties about an incident.

CoordinationCall During an incident, instructions will be given to initiate a responder and stakeholder Coordination Call through Emergency Management BC (EMBC) or the Alberta Emergen-cy Management Agency (AEMA). The instructions will include a list of external agencies and contact information. We will facilitate this call in the event EMBC or AEMA are unable to complete.

During a Coordination Call, added information about an incident to be considered for communication includes activating status of the emergency response plan, deter-mining issues and risks, assessing public safety impacts, detailing which agencies, stakeholders and Aboriginal communities have been notified, and determining other potential consequences relating to the incident.

UpdatestoLiaisonandInformationOfficerresponsibilities During an incident, the Liaison Officer will be tasked with identifying and communicating with Aboriginal communities, including First Nations with Traditional Territory affected, and local governments. The Information Officer will be tasked with identifying and communicating with landowners.

Healthauthoritynotifications Health authorities will be notified about an incident when there are certain risks identified, including contamination of water used for ag-ricultural purposes and for drinking by domestic animals or livestock, This audience will also be informed that assessment for contamination of water sources is underway.

Our EMP enhancements have not been limited to the input for consideration submitted. A number of initiatives are underway to incorporate input, technologies and the natural evolution of emergency management practices, as well as fulfill condition requirements from the National Energy Board (see box below) and the BC Environmental Assessment Office.

Consultation and engagement with stakeholders is ongoing and there-fore the enhancements to these EMP elements and other aspects of the program will continue to be incorporated.

NEBconditionfilingupdate

This past summer, we filed two condition reports mandated by the National Energy Board in regards to our Emergency Management Program:

• Condition 90 - Consultation on Improvements to Trans Mountain’s Emergency Management Program

• Condition 117 - Reporting on Improvements to Trans Mountain’s Emergency Management Program

Visit www.neb-one.gc.ca for more information.

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Swift Water Boat Course Provides Valuable Training for Personnel

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At a Glance: Upcoming Exercises

January2018-Jasper, AB (Full-scale)

If you would like to receive information on future exercises, please contact Emergency_Management@kindermorgan.com.

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A custom-designed river boat handling course will provide our emergency response personnel the skills to safely carry out a rescue or spill response operation in swift moving water.

The boat handling course is customized from an amalgam of courses al-ready taught by Rivertec, a technical river services

business based in Yale, BC. The first course for our personnel occurred over three days in May 2017 in the Fraser Canyon, an international destination for white water rafting. The training focused on response skills in inland waterways, large rivers, and creeks.

Rivertec, based in Yale, BC, provides river transportation and related services to a wide range of clients including biologists, engineers, rail-ways and construction crews. Rivertec’s parent company, Fraser River Rafting Expeditions (FRRE), has been running the Fraser River since 1988. “Rivertec is well known on the river,” Jamie Kereliuk, Director Emergency Management, Kinder Morgan Canada, explained. “They of-fer swift water rescue services, safety services, any kind of boat access that would be needed to deal with any type of incident.”

“It’s great working with local people, learning from them and being involved in expanding their business. There’s an added benefit for them — they can provide this new course to other industries or local communities.”

Kereliuk anticipates that Yale could become our company’s “new centre for river boat training in BC.” He added the course could also benefit Aboriginal communities and other industries who are looking to enhance their water emergency preparedness measures.

Kereliuk said those who completed the course are “...now safer on the river, better at boat operating and better at emergency response. The training focused on inland waterway, large rivers, and creeks — anywhere you are operating a boat. [Rivertec] take you into waters that are very challenging — if you can operate in those situations it becomes easier to carry out the work in any situation.”