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Summary of Performance Indicators – Enbridge Gas Distribution


  2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
 
OPERATIONS1
Gas distribution volumes (billion cubic feet)2 408 438 5753 458 410
Gas distribution volumes (petajoules) 446 479 629 501 448
Length of pipeline (thousand kilometres)4 33.0 32.9 31.4 30.5 29.0
Number of employees 1,898 1,799 1,607 1,682 2,008
 
EH&S MANAGEMENT
Major incidents5 0 1 0 3 1
Regulatory notifications6 0 1 3 3 3
EH&S fines and penalties (thousands of dollars)7 0 0 0 0 0
 
EH&S TRAINING
Total hours8 6,990 5,849 4,646 4,166 4,939
Hours per employee9 6.4 5.66 5.30 4.03 2.46
EH&S professionals (full time)10 10 10 10 10 11
 
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Greenhouse gas emissions11,12  
Direct emissions (thousand tonnes of CO2e)13 288 290 300 319 317
Indirect emissions (thousand tonnes of CO2e)14 7 7 711 7 8
Net emissions intensity (tonnes of CO2e per petajoule of energy delivered)15 661 605 489 651 725
Direct emissions intensity (tCO2e/pj)15 645 605 478 636 708
Energy12, 16  
Energy use (thousand gigajoules) 1,000 913 949 938 911
Energy intensity (thousand gigajoules per billion cubic feet of throughput) 2.5 2.1 1.7 2.1 2.2
Reportable spills17  
Number of spills (gas) 0 0 0 1 0
Number of spills (liquid) 0 0 0 0 1
Spill volume (litres of liquid) 0 0 0 0 180
Spill volume rate (barrels per billion cubic feet of throughput) 0 0 n/a n/a 0.45
Waste  
Waste to offsite disposal  
Total non-hazardous waste (tonnes) 1,148 1,098 998 958 565
Total liquid Ontario Ministry of Environment registerable waste (thousand litres)18 151 90819 23020 196 132
Total solid Ontario Ministry of Environment registerable waste (kilograms)18 11,73621 1,053 2,296 2,202 7,789
Recycled material (tonnes) 428 497 469 444 431
 
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Employee days away injury frequency
  (days away injuries per 200,000 hours worked)22		 0.30 0.62 0.13 0.48 1.21
Employee days away severity
  (days away per 200,000 hours worked)		 4.69 6.57 2.83 7.45 11.27
Employee recordable injury frequency
  (recordable injuries oer 200,000 hours worked)23		 2.20 2.91 2.58 3.00 3.42
Absenteeism (days absent per employee) 3.79 3.84 3.85 4.51 4.44
Motor vehicle incident frequency
  (incidents per million kilometres driven)		 3.42 3.79 3.22 3.32 2.75
 
  1. Includes overall distribution system of Enbridge Gas Distribution.
  2. The data for the years 2002 to 2005 were incorrectly reported in the 2005 and 2006 CSR reports.
  3. Covers the 15-month period ended December 31, 2004, due to a change in Enbridge Gas Distribution’s fiscal year end from September 30 to December 31 to be consistent with Enbridge.
  4. Does not include gas services (pipe required from the main to serve residential, commercial or industrial buildings).
  5. 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.
  6. A regulatory notification is formal written notification by regulators that Enbridge is not adhering to legal, 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Includes EH&S training for operations employees such as driver safety, pipeline excavation safety and WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Material Information System).
  9. Measures hours of EH&S training per operations employee. Does not include additional training provided to office employees.
  10. Includes nursing staff in the Company’s Wellness Centre.
  1. Data for the year 2002 and onwards includes Enbridge Gas Distribution, Enbridge Gas New Brunswick, and Gazifère. Data for 2004 onwards also includes St. Lawrence Gas.
  2. 2006 data is projected based on data from Enbridge’s Canadian GHG Challenge Registry Update 2006. While Enbridge conducted the calculation of its Canadian GHG emissions in accordance with the methodologies outlined in the API Compendium of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Methodologies for the Oil and Gas Industry (February 2004), the total emission calculation for numerous facilities are difficult of precise and exact determination and thereby Enbridge cannot warrant the accuracy or completeness of this information.
  3. Does not include customer emissions.
  4. Data excludes St. Lawrence Gas.
  5. Annual data varies from that reported in previous CSR reports due to a change of methodology in calculating our GHG emissions.
  6. Data includes Enbridge Gas Distribution, Enbridge Gas New
    Brunswick, and Gazifère, but excludes St. Lawrence Gas.
  7. Reportable spills are spills reportable to a regulatory jurisdiction.
  8. Includes wastes registered under the Ontario Hazardous Waste
    Information Network.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. This increase is due primarily to a one-time project that required the removal and disposal of over 10,000 kilograms of pipe coating.
  12. Measure of any work-related injury or illness that prevents a worker from reporting to work on the next calendar day or subsequent days.
  13. Includes days away and medical-aid injuries.
 

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