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DECOMMISSIONING-1: NEB case study shows abandonment pitfalls
02/12/2007
Pipeline abandonment must consider environmental remediation beyond simple closure or removal of the line in question.In August and September 1996, Canada’s National Energy Board heard and approved the abandonment of the entirety of Yukon Pipelines Ltd. (YPL), the first and (to date) only large-scale abandonment of an NEB-regulated pipeline. Although the NEB wrote its YPL leave-to-abandon order in 1996, and the majority of the pipeline and related infrastructure were removed soon after, the abandonment is still ongoing.The leave-to-abandon order will not come into force until YPL demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the Board and in consideration of comments from other stakeholders,...
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