Spill Preparedness Planning
Are you prepared for your next spill incident? Ridgeline Response uses an innovative approach to provide a quantifiable vulnerability index of your entire operational area from a desktop perspective. This data along with our spill response expertise, remote sensing, and infield reconnaissance technologies are then utilized to focus the development and customization of your operation’s unique spill preparedness strategy. The spill preparedness team at Ridgeline Response is confident that we can provide your team with an approach that is going to meet your regulatory requirements and exceed your operational expectations.
Why is preparedness planning necessary?
Be prepared for the unexpected by having a comprehensive Emergency Preparedness Plan. Having an Emergency Preparedness Plan allows your team to feel at ease knowing that you have a plan in place in the event of a spill. Without being prepared, an uncontrolled release will end up being more costly, create a greater impact on the environment, increase your organization’s liability exposure, and potentially tarnish the corporate image that you have worked so hard to establish.
Currently, companies working in the oil and gas sector are busy working on meeting their regulatory requirements under AERs Directive 071 and BC’s Environmental Management Act (EMA).
Directive 071 is divided into two sections:
Part A sets out planning requirements for emergency response plan (ERP) development that licensees are required to meet in order to gain AER approval for the ERP.
Plan B sets out the requirements that licensees are required to meet in order to effectively implement their plans and respond to an incident or emergency.
Division 2.1 Spill Preparedness, Response, and Recovery of the EMA describes the details of what must be included in a spill response plan as well as the practical implementation of their plans in the event of an incident or emergency.
It is important that organizations working in the oil and gas industry understand their regulatory requirements and implement those requirements into their plans.
How we can help you Develop a Plan?
In addition to our Spill Response Services, Ridgeline Response works closely with many clients to develop customized spill response planning and preparedness documents that integrate into their pre-existing Emergency Response Plans (ERP) or Emergency Response Manuals (ERM). Our products complement your existing ERP program by focusing on spill response activities from both tactical and environmental perspectives.
We are all very fortunate to work within the Canadian Oil and Gas industry; it truly is the leader in safety, environmental awareness, and emergency spill preparedness.
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our emergency preparedness services
Vulnerability Assessment
Using our custom-built Spatial Decision Support System in a GIS environment we identify client assets that exhibit a relatively high degree of spill vulnerability. With our innovative and customizable criterion, we can focus our client’s EPP efforts based on quantitative analysis and vulnerability results. Our unique methodology allows you to evaluate large operational regions in a quantifiable approach so that you can be sure that you are focusing your preparedness efforts on the specific asset locations that matter the most.
Tactical Response Planning and Control Point Mapping
Conducting field reconnaissance, UAV imaging, and remote sensing to develop site-specific spill response tactics and control points in locations where our clients need them the most. Our spill response experts will develop tactical plans that will serve as a playbook for your operations personnel including but not limited to access routes, control points, containment and recovery tactics, protection of environmental receptors, regulatory reporting requirements, communication plans, and vendor management. As we have assisted our clients in becoming prepared over the years we have had the pleasure to visit a lot of beautiful scenery along with some very remote river systems throughout Alberta and Northern British Columbia, it brings our team great comfort to know that our clients are committed to protecting these areas from the potential damages caused by an uncontrolled release and we are very proud to help them become prepared.
Spill Response Exercise Design and Facilitation
We assist our clients in meeting and exceeding their regulatory requirements to conduct infield and desktop spill response exercises. It is such a great experience for our team to participate in these exercises, they definitely meet the objective of ensuring that our clients are prepared for real-world spill incidents and are great opportunities for client team building.
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Take the first step today and prepare you and your team for a spill before it occurs.
References
AER (2017). Directive 071. https://www.aer.ca/regulating-development/rules-and-directives/directives/directive-071
Government of BC (2017). Spill Management Regulations. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/spills-environmental-emergencies/spill-preparedness-and-response-bc
