Company: ENBSF
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000895728-25-000006
Chunk: 197

Company: ENBRIDGE INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 197
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 within the US Department of Transportation (DOT). These laws and regulations require us to comply with a significant set of requirements for the design, construction, maintenance and operation of our interstate pipelines. These laws and regulations, among other things, include requirements to monitor and maintain the integrity of our pipelines and to operate them within permissible design limits such as pressures.

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PHMSA continues to review existing regulations and establish new regulations to support safety and environmental standards that are designed to improve operations integrity management processes and reduce methane emissions. In this climate of increasingly stringent regulation, pipeline failure or failures to comply with applicable regulations could result in reduction of allowable operating pressures as authorized by PHMSA, which would reduce available capacity on our pipelines. Should any of these risks materialize, it may have an adverse effect on our operations, capital expenditures, earnings, cash flows, financial condition and competitive advantage.

Our ability to establish transportation and storage rates on our US interstate natural gas facilities is subject to regulation by the FERC, whose rulings and policies could have an adverse impact on the ability to recover the full cost of operating these pipeline and storage assets, including a reasonable rate of return. Regulatory or administrative actions by the FERC such as rate proceedings, applications to certify construction of new facilities, and depreciation and amortization policies, can affect our business, including decreasing tariff rates and revenues and increasing our costs of doing business.

In Canada, our pipelines are subject to safety regulations administered by the CER or provincial regulators. Applicable legislation and regulations require us to comply with a significant set of requirements for the design, construction, maintenance and operation of our pipelines. Among other obligations, this regulatory framework imposes requirements to monitor and maintain the integrity of our pipelines.

As in the US, laws and regulations addressing enhanced pipeline safety in Canada have been enacted over the past few years and are continuously being monitored. These changes demonstrate an increased focus on the implementation of management systems to address key areas, such as emergency management, integrity management, safety, security and environmental protection. The CER has authority to impose administrative monetary penalties for non-compliance with the regulatory regime it administers, as well as to impose financial requirements for future abandonment and major pipeline releases.

A key component of pipeline safety and reliability is the approach to integrity management that uses reliability targets and safety case assessments. A long history of extensive inline inspection has provided detailed knowledge of the assets in our pipeline systems. Our pipelines are assessed and maintained in a proactive manner in order to meet reliability targets. Furthermore, the integrity management program has an independent step to