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NEB says crude leaked from Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline
CALGARY – The National Energy Board says it’s responding to a spill from Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain line near Merritt, B.C.
The energy watchdog says it doesn’t yet know the size of the leak, which took place on Crown land.
It says it received an incident report late Wednesday afternoon, and that the pipeline has been shut down to prevent any more oil from being released.
The Trans Mountain line ships 300,000 barrels per day of various petroleum products from Alberta to the B.C. Lower Mainland and Washington State.
U.S.-based Kinder Morgan is preparing to file a regulatory application to nearly triple the size of the pipeline — a proposal that had drawn a great deal of controversy in B.C.
Earlier this month, a pipeline operated by Texas-based Apache leaked 9.5 million litres of industrial waste water near Zama City in northern Alberta.
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