[cont'd]
better chance of escape. 

The pipeline company has estimated that a rupture at this location would be around 5,000 barrels. Fresh crude oil of any type is as flammable as its most volatile component. Indeed, much of what is shipped through this pipeline is Bakken crude, the Megantic stuff that the TSB later determined to be as flammable as gasoline.

Why am I mentioning this? Because Ontario's PPS states that "sensitive uses" (ie. where rapid evacuation would be problematic) must be kept away from "human-made hazards." Ontario's TSSA stipulates a minimum setback of 200 metres for hard-to-evacuate facilities.

None of this seems to matter to City planners. Their latest example of "good planning" is a 28-storey apartment building that's going up next to five transmission pipelines, all of which transport refined products (mostly gasoline) at pressures in excess of 1,000 psi.

The reason that the British case will be investigated and these cases won't is simple: nothing [TBC}