Mayor hopes new regulations will mean safer pipelines
North Battleford’s mayor hopes the provincial government will ensure there is added safety of pipelines to better protect a significant water source for the city.
Following the province’s announcement to introduce new legislation to provide more checks in the oil pipeline industry after last July’s Husky Energy oil spill into North Saskatchewan River, Mayor Ryan Bater said anything new that can help tighten controls is a good thing.
“Our primary concern is that it doesn’t happen again,” he said. “The response from the province last week was that there would be more robust auditing of the pipelines, especially pipelines that go through river valleys.
“My expectation is that the province will create a more robust regime, to ensure the pipelines are inspected more often and more thoroughly so that we don’t have this kind of inccident again,” added Bater.