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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 2004
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Liquids Pipelines

  1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
OPERATIONS1          
Deliveries (thousands of barrels per day)2,3 1,942 2,072 2,109 2,088 2,189
Barrel miles (billions)3,4 687 735 695 705 710
Length of right-of-way (kilometres)5 10,248 10,243 10,254 10,314 10,243
Employees 1,201 1,176 1,111 1,078 1,097
EH&S MANAGEMENT          
Major incidents6 8 3 5 9 7
Regulatory notifications7 2 0 0 1 7
EH&S fines and penalties (thousand dollars)8 162 0 0 0 0
EH&S professionals (full-time) 22 22 23 22 25
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE          
Greenhouse gas emissions 9          
Direct emissions (thousand tonnes of CO2E) 40 23 17 17 1310
Indirect emissions (thousand tonnes of CO2E) 955 906 863 835 1,09910
Net emission intensity
(tonnes of CO2E per petajoule of energy delivered)11
207 184 172 153 17310
Energy12          
Energy use (thousand gigajoules) 5,886 5,139 5,215 5,114 6,60610
Energy intensity
(thousand gigajoules per million cubic metres of throughput)
51 42 43 38 4310
Reportable spills13          
Spills (number) 54 43 27 46 58
Spill volume (barrels) 28,760 7,480 25,670 14,680 6,377
Spill volume rate
(barrels per billion barrel miles of throughput)
41.22 9.99 36.22 20.22 8.68
Waste14          
Recycled material (tonnes) 95 105 88 46 4610
social performance          
Health and safety          
Employee days away injury frequency
(days away injuries per 200,000 hours worked)15
0.00 0.09 0.34 0.18 0.09
Employee days away severity
(days away per 200,000 hours worked)
0.00 0.09 1.37 4.25 0.09
Employee recordable injury frequency
(recordable injuries per 200,000 hours worked)16
1.10 1.04 1.20 1.11 1.31
Contractor days away injury frequency
(days away injuries per 200,000 hours worked)17
3.32 5.92 1.59 1.07 0.82
Contractor recordable injury frequency
(recordable injuries per 200,000 hours worked)16,17
12.32 20.71 7.12 4.60 4.52
Absenteeism (days absent per employee) 3.44 3.26 3.13 2.72 3.15
Motor vehicle incident frequency
incidents per million kilometres driven)18
2.60 2.65 2.52 2.17 3.22

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1 Unless otherwise noted, data covers Enbridge Pipelines Inc., Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P.(Lakehead and North Dakota systems), Enbridge Pipelines (NW) Inc., Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc., Enbridge Pipelines (Athabasca) Inc., and Enbridge Pipelines (Toledo) Inc. Results for the Mid-Continent system acquired from Shell on March 1, 2004, are not included in this report.
2 One barrel = 0.159 cubic metres or 42 U.S.gallons.
3 Includes Enbridge Pipelines Inc., Enbridge Energy Partners,L.P. (Lakehead System), Enbridge Pipelines (NW) Inc., Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc.and Enbridge Pipelines (Toledo) Inc.
4 Barrel miles are barrels delivered multiplied by the distance traveled in miles.
5 Includes mainline and gathering line rights-of-way.
6 Major incidents are EH&S events that result in a critical employee or contractor injury or fatality, significant regulatory enforcement action, a liquid spill in excess of 100 barrels or significant adverse impact to the environment.
7 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, summons 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.
8 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.
9 Includes Enbridge Pipelines Inc., Enbridge Pipelines (NW) Inc., Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc. and Enbridge Pipelines (Athabasca) Inc.
10 2003 data is projected based on data from the Enbridge 2002 VCR Update.
11 Net emissions include reductions related to any offset project.
12 Energy use includes electricity and fuel consumption in the operations of Enbridge Pipelines Inc., Enbridge Pipelines (NW) Inc., Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc.and Enbridge Pipelines (Athabasca) Inc.
13 Reportable spills are any spill reportable to a regulatory jurisdiction.
14 Includes office paper, aluminum, glass, metal and newspaper. Materials such as wax, waste oil, rags and batteries are recycled but not tracked.
15 Measure of any work-related injury or illness that prevents a worker from reporting to work on the next calendar day.
16 Includes days away and medical aid injuries.
17 Contractor days away and recordable injury frequency rates include engineering project contractors. The rates do not include operations contractors, because the number of hours worked is not tracked for these contractors.
18 Motor vehicle incident frequency rates do not include incidents that occurred at office locations in Edmonton, Alberta, and Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, because mileage is not tracked for these locations.

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