ENBRIDGE GAS DISTRIBUTION


  2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
 
OPERATIONS1
Gas Distribution Volumes (billion cubic feet) 413 413 433 430 439
Length of pipeline (thousands kilometres)2 28.0 29.0 30.5 31.4 32.9
Number of employees 1,780 2,008 1,682 1,607 1,799
 
EH&S MANAGEMENT
Major incidents3 0 1 3 0 1
Regulatory notifications4 4 3 3 3 1
EH&S fines and penalties (thousands of dollars)5 0 0 0 0 0
 
EH&S TRAINING
Total Hours6 n/a 4,939 4,166 4,646 5,849
Hours per employee7 n/a 2.46 4.03 5.30 5.66
EH&S professionals (full time)8 12 11 10 10 10
 
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Greenhouse gas emissions9  
Direct emissions (thousand tonnes of CO2e) 33810 31710 31810 300 289
Indirect emissions (thousand tonnes of CO2e) 9 8 7 711 7
Net emissions intensity (tonnes of CO2e per petajoule of energy delivered) 780 730 701 94511 962
Direct emissions intensity (tCO2e/pj) 765 714 683 924 946
Energy  
Energy use (thousand gigajoules) 1,322 911 938 949 913
Energy intensity (thousand gigajoules per billion cubic feet of throughput) 3.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2
Reportable Spills12  
Number of Spills (gas)13 1 0 1 0 0
Number of Spills (liquid) 1 1 0 0 0
Spill volume (litres of liquid) 5 180 0 0 0
Spill volume rate (barrels per billion cubic feet of throughput) 0.01 0.45 n/a n/a 0
Waste  
Waste to offsite disposal  
Total non-hazardous waste (tonnes) 469 565 958 998 1,098
Total liquid Ontario Ministry of Environment registerable waste (thousand litres)14 46 132 196 23015 90816
Total solid Ontario Ministry of Environment registerable waste (kilograms)14 38,000 7,789 2,202 2,296 1,053
Recycled material (tonnes) 40 431 444 469 497
 
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Employee days away injury frequency
  (days away injuries per 200,000 hours worked)17		 0.62 1.21 0.48 0.13 0.62
Employee days away severity
  (days away per 200,000 hours worked)		 6.98 11.27 7.45 2.83 6.57
Employee recordable injury frequency
  (recordable injuries per 200,000 hours worked)18		 3.29 3.42 3.00 2.58 2.91
Absenteeism (days absent per employee) 4.86 4.44 4.15 3.85 3.84
Motor vehicle incident frequency
  (incidents per million kilometres driven)		 2.98 2.75 3.32 3.22 3.79
 

1 Includes overall distribution system of Enbridge Gas Distribution.

2 Does not include gas services (pipe required from the main to serve residential, commercial or industrial buildings).

3 Major incidents are EH&S events that result in a critical employee or contractor injury or fatality, significant regulatory enforcement action or significant adverse impact to the environment.

4 Regulatory notifications are formal written notification by regulators that Enbridge may not be adhering to the law, regulation or permit requirements. Examples of notifications include formal warnings, enforcement actions, summonses and charges, notices of violation and stop and control orders. Notifications do not include field inspection reports or other informal communications. Notifications may result in fines or penalties.

5 EH&S fines and penalties are levied against the company as a result of regulatory notifications. Fines and penalties in a particular year often relate to activities in prior years. Reported in Canadian dollars.

6 Includes EH&S training for employees such as driver safety, pipeline excavation safety and WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Material Information System).

7 Measures hours of EH&S training per operations employee. Does not include additional training provided to office employees. 2002 data was reported for all employees.

8 Includes vehicle safety trainers and nursing staff in the company’s Wellness Centre.

9 Does not include customer emissions.

10 Data excludes St. Lawrence Gas.

11 Data is based on the Enbridge GHG Challenge Registry 2006 Update.

12 Reportable spills are spills reportable to a regulatory jurisdiction.

13 Does not include fugitive emissions, planned releases or third party incidents.

14 Includes wastes registered under the Ontario Hazardous Waste Information Network.

15 This increase was largely due to a water utility main break which caused water to flow into gas utility lines and resulted in Enbridge Gas Distribution having to dispose of pumped-out water as hazardous waste.

16 This increase was largely due to disposal of water (including rain water) that came into contact with soil that was deemed contaminated at a former manufactured gas plant.

17 Measure of any work-related injury or illness that prevents a worker from reporting to work on the next calendar day.

18 Includes days away and medical aid injuries.