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Construction Safety Dispatch Articles
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Three companies have been fined for a construction accident that spewed sticky, smelly, black crude oil over a Vancouver-area neighbourhood.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge in Vancouver has approved $550,000 in fines and penalties against three companies linked to the rupture of a pipeline carrying synthetic crude to a shipping terminal in Burnaby.
In accordance with a sentencing deal worked out in October, Cusano Contracting, R.F. Binnie and Associates, and Kinder Morgan subsidiary Trans Mountain Pipeline must each make a $149,000 contribution to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation.
Trans Mountain Pipeline will also contribute $100,000 to the British Columbia Common Ground Alliance to help plan and organize DigSafe BC workshops, to prevent similar incidents.
When a road crew punched through the pipeline in July, 2007, nearly 250,000 litres of oil geysered out, spilling about 70,000 litres into Burrard Inlet and turning the entire neighbourhood — including 11 homes — a gooey brown.
The Transportation Safety Board released a report in 2009 that concluded poor communication and lax construction procedures led to the rupture.
Source: The Canadian Press
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