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LMCI Meeting Summary - Landowners and Landowner Association - 5 and 6 May 2008

5 and 6 May 2008
Consort and Oyen Area, Alberta

NEB Attendees:

Lorna Patterson
Paul Georgison
Jason Lynch
Karine Simard

5 landowners and 1 landowner association representative consulted

NEB staff spent two days with 5 landowners and 1 landowner association representative, visiting several sites in Alberta, where federally regulated pipelines are located.

Key Concerns Expressed:

  • Crossing and/or proximity of existing old high pressure line and proposed new line(s) to farmsteads, fresh water creeks, alkali sloughs, feeding lots, breeding pastures, and other installations causes concerns of safety, liability, crossings, future expansion or construction impediments, land value losses, environmental and farming or breeding impacts, water and soil contamination, corrosion, ruptures, disruption of underground water supply.
  • Landowners are concerned about the integrity of a 50 year old pipe and would like the NEB and landowners to have access to companies' integrity test results and information
  • Difficulty getting in contact with company or getting information - company's lack of integrity, cooperation and willingness to listen and negotiate
  • Reluctance of company to deal and talk with landowners who are associated with pipeline landowners' associations
  • Company not being forthcoming and open with information impairs their relations with landowners (lack of trust)
  • Company contracting land agents or others to deal with landowners rather than their own employees
  • Lack of knowledge of landowners regarding the existence and purpose of the Board, landowners' rights, regulations, processes, abandonment, etc.
  • Company's conflicting and confusing information or unclear rules, warnings
  • Depth of cover of lines and thickness of pipes going through landowners' farmsteads, installations
  • Companies not understanding or considering landowners' particular interests or practices when dealing with specific site issues
  • Uncertainty of how company will deal with landowners' specific site issues on new projects
  • Maps provided by companies for new projects and lines to cross landowners' lands are difficult to read - information not clear enough
  • Inadequacy of compensation
  • Concerns about whether or not companies are being held to their commitments and conditions - Who will verify their records and their integrity?
  • The term 'abandonment' and its regulations needs to be clearly defined
  • Concerns about the effects, compliance, and studies of heated oil lines on the land

 

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2011-10-28