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Hamiltons buried pipelines

SUN-CANADIAN UNION GAS


401

WHAT: four natural gas transmission lines, between 26 and 48 inches in diameter sion 1 WHERE: Conces Sarnia storage facility to Mississauga AGE: between 56 and six years . Gore Rd System-wide average 800 CAPACITY: billion cubic feet per day

WHAT: rened petroleum products WHERE: Sarnia reneries to marketing plants in Toronto and Hamilton AGE: 60 years CAPACITY: 125,000 barrels a day SPILL NOTE: No recent spills locally but remediation is under way for a 200-barrel spill along the line in Sarnia
Freelton

Enbridge's controversial Line 9 pipeline grabs the headlines but its just one of a dozen major rivers of oil and gas owing below the city. The companys plan to reverse its 38-year-old pipeline to bring western oilsands crude back east has spurred growing protests and ongoing regulatory hearings. Meanwhile, lower-prole pipelines some two decades older than Line 9 quietly usher petroleum products such as natural gas, home-heating oil and even jet fuel under our feet. At least one active line sits on the bottom of Hamilton harbour.
Pipeline routes are approximate. Some routes may involve multiple pipes.

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IMPERIAL OIL
FLAMBOROUGH

Line idled in 1982. Company wont comment on past specs.

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BURLINGTON
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Lake Ontario
DUNDAS

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Hamilton Community Energy

Hamilton Harbour

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LINE 7 ors Rd. Govern WHAT: light, medium, heavy crude WHERE: Sarnia to westover AGE: NA CAPACITY: 150,000 barrels per day Rd. LINE 9 (A AND B) Jerseyville WHAT: Various crude; reversal could allow oilsands crude WHERE: Sarnia to Montreal via Hamilton AGE: 38 CAPACITY: 240,000 barrels a day; 300,000 barrels under reversal plan SPILL NOTE: Westover hub reported two BRANTFORD minor incidents in 2013 that spilled about 20 Brant litres of oil. The entire 830-kilometre line has su ered 13 spills since 1976, says the company. LINE 10 WHAT: Light, medium, heavy crude WHERE: Westover to New York State AGE: 50 CAPACITY: 70,000 barrels a day SPILL NOTE: A rupture in 2000 spilled 600 barrels of oil into a Binbrook farmers eld. Ohsweken LINE 11 3 Line crude WHAT: Light, medium, heavy WHERE: Westover to Nanticoke renery AGE: 50 CAPACITY: 120,000 barrels a day
SOURCE: Hamilton Conservation Authority

ENBRIDGE

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Air Liquide Canada


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WHAT: natural gas WHERE: U.S. to Canadian customers AGE: sections of the line through Hamilton range in age from 59 to 20 years. CAPACITY: 400 million cubic feet per day
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TRANS-NORTHERN PIPELINE

CALEDONIA
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WHAT: heating fuel, gasoline, diesel and jet fuel WHERE: From Imperial oil renery to the Toronto-area market AGE: Section from Imperial oil to Hamilton Junction is 1978; onward to Burlington Canal and eastern Ontario was 1952 CAPACITY: System-wide,Rdi d. erent sections ork range from 63,000 toY132,000 barrels a day

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MATTHEW VAN DONGEN, LARRY CRANDALL/THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR

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