Pillar one: Environment
From project planning and design through to construction, operation and reclamation, SaskEnergy is committed to protecting the environment. This includes plant life, wildlife, wetlands, native prairie, and species at risk. Protecting the local environment
avoid environmentally sensitive landscapes and water features. In addition, we have a biosecurity policy for our planning, construction, operation and abandonment activities, which includes a variety of mitigation measures and risk-based approaches to help protect the environment, landowners and the public from biosecurity concerns. These robust procedures and processes prevent the introduction or spread of invasive species or diseases, including zebra mussels, clubroot and other weed species. As part of our commitment to biosecurity efforts, SaskEnergy engages with Indigenous communities, landowners, government and industry, and focuses on the use of new technologies to further
on recently constructed gas lines and areas of legacy reclamation concerns. We regularly work with and reach out to landowners with gas lines on their property to ask for feedback on our performance and pride ourselves on being responsive to any concern that may arise.
Land and water
The protection of land and water is an essential part of maintaining healthy ecosystems and an essential part of our business. When planning our projects, we
minimize our impacts. Each year, we spend $2 to $3 million on biosecurity measures.
In 2020, SaskEnergy launched a new environmental screening tool that improves how we review gas line projects and streamlines customer connect projects for new services. The tool analyzes projects through more than 25 data layers that screen for environmental, heritage and geotechnical considerations. With this tool, SaskEnergy can quickly respond to regulatory changes and continually upgrade metrics as additional environmental, heritage and geotechnical information becomes available. Our Pipeline Reclamation Inspection program is also key to SaskEnergy’s commitment to landowners, stakeholders, regulatory obligations and environmentally focused operations. Our goal is to proactively return a disturbed site to its former, or even better, state. Through this program, we proactively check and address crop and vegetation re-growth, as well as slumping and weed issues, Environmental screening and reclamation
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