Enbridge Inc.
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2005 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
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Summary of Performance Indicators

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U.S. NATURAL GAS BUSINESS

  2001 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004
      Pipeline Trucking Pipeline Trucking
OPERATIONS1            
Gas transmission volume2
(billion cubic feet per day)
1.2 1.4 1.8 - 2.03 -
Deliveries (barrels per day)3 4,500 15,000 28,000 - 35,695 21,376
Length of right-of-way(miles) 2,400 6,400 6,430 45 8,5004 45
Length of pipeline(miles) 4,100 7,500 7,500 45 9,200 45
Employees 337 616 515 162 694 160
EH&S MANAGEMENT            
Major incidents5 3 1 0 2 2 0
Regulatory notifications6 4 3 10 1 18 0
EH&S fines and penalties (thousand dollars)7 46 16.9 53.5 0.5 202.3 0
EH&S TRAINING            
Total hours 700 4,600 7,800 1,850 11,471 1,997
Hours per employee8 - - 29.4 11.4 16.5 12.5
EH&S professionals (full-time) 1 6 9 1 11 1
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE9            
Reportable spills10            
Spills (number)11 5 1 2 2 5 0
Spill volume (barrels) 517 2 11 21 138 0
HEALTH AND SAFETY12            
Employee days away injury frequency
(days away injuries per 200,000 hours worked)13
2.40 0.19 0.19 1.23 0.30 1.88
Employee days away severity
(days away per 200,000 hours worked)
29.19 7.86 0.19 111.56 1.80 33.82
Employee recordable injury frequency
(recordable injuries per 200,000 hours worked)14
5.63 1.07 1.55 2.47 1.35 0.47
Preventable motor vehicle incident frequency
(incidents per million miles driven)
3.81 1.21 2.59 1.61 1.68 2.23


1 Unless otherwise noted, data covers natural gas transmission, gathering, processing and trucking operations of Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P.
2 Reflects aggregate throughput of Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P., natural gas transmission, gathering and processing lines.
3 1 barrel = 0.159 cubic metres or 42 U.S. gallons (all liquid products).
4 Includes 8,500 right-of-way miles for transmission, processing and gathering and 45 miles for Dufour Petroleum.
5 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.
6 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 fi.nes 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 U.S. dollars.
8 Measures hours of EH&S training per operations employee. Does not include additional training provided to office employees.
9 Because of different regulatory requirements and business needs, our U.S. Natural Gas Business does not track some corporate performance indicators. A key priority of this business operation is full compliance with existing regulatory requirements. The company's management system provides accountability for achieving this performance.
10 Reportable spills are any spill reportable to a regulatory jurisdiction.
11 Includes liquid spills from gas transmission and the limited number of liquids pipelines that are included in the U.S. Natural Gas Business segment.
12 Health and safety statistics refer only to Enbridge employees. Personal injury classi.cations are based on U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reporting guidelines for occupational injuries and illnesses.
13 Measure of any work-related injury or illness that prevents a worker from reporting to work on the next calendar day.
14 Includes days away and medical aid injuries.

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