“Minor Landscaping” includes excavation or other activity where the depth of cover over the Pipeline is maintained or restored following excavation. Minor Landscaping may include the placement of lawns, crops, dirt or gravel pads, flower beds or gardens.
“Mechanical Excavation” means any Ground Disturbance that is undertaken other than by hand digging or other means approved by SaskEnergy (i.e. hydro-vac), but does not include a Ground Disturbance undertaken for the purpose of Cultivation. “Oil & Gas Activity” means Work or Installations associated with oil and gas gathering, production and transportation. This includes but is not limited to the drilling of wells, building of access roads, preparation and building of site civil work, installation of Pipelines, power lines and Foundations for support. “Parcel” means a legal parcel, or a condominium plan, but does not include a condominium unit. “ Pipeline ” means SaskEnergy natural gas pipelines, equipment and facilities ancillary thereto, including but not limited to valves, meters, and regulators. “Permission” means SaskEnergy consent under its Terms & Conditions of Service Schedule, The SaskEnergy Act, and The SaskEnergy Regulations, or an Easement or agreement, as qualified herein. “Tree Work” includes the planting, removal or relocation of trees.
Regulator
Meter
Shutoff Valve
Typical Service Location
“Right of Way” (ROW) means a strip of land in which a Pipeline is located. An urban Right of Way typically takes the form of an Easement registered on the property title, and can be ascertained from the land titles registry. A Right of Way is typically 3 metres wide in the yards of most urban homes. Rural Rights of Way can be registered or unregistered
(https://www.isc.ca/LandTitles/Pages/default.aspx), and may not show up on title. An unregistered rural Easement, such as found in the yards of most rural homes, is typically 10 metres wide (5 metres on each side of the Pipeline). “Safety Zone” means the area within a Right of Way or 1.5 metres from the Pipeline, on either side, where no Right of Way exists, wherein consent of the Corporation is required for a Site Disturbance.
“Seismic” means all field activities included with the gathering of seismic information. “Service” or “Service Pipeline” means a line from a Main Pipeline to a service location, which serves a single Parcel. “Simple Structure” means anchors, poles, sign posts, and other like structures that are not connected to other more complex structures such as fences and buildings. “Site Disturbance” includes: (i) any excavation, drilling, installing or erecting of any pit, well, Foundation, pavement, Building or other structure or installation; (ii) any Ground Disturbance that reduces the depth of cover over the Pipeline to a depth that is less than the cover provided when the Pipeline was installed; (iii) Mechanical Excavation below 0.30 metres in depth or over a Pipeline; (iv) Cultivation below 0.30 metres in depth or Farm Cultivation below 0.45 metres in depth; and (v) the tearing down, destroying, breaking up or razing of a structure or of the outer walls or principal supporting members of a structure. “Unenclosed Structure” means a structure that is open to atmosphere in such a way as to minimize the risk of trapping natural gas, this includes many types of decks , play structures, gazebos, above ground pools, towers or other like structures. “Work” or “Installations” means any activity or installation in the Right of Way or within 1.5 metres of a Pipeline if no Right of Way exists, which requires the consent of SaskEnergy.
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