July 15, 2005: About 210,000 litres of crude were released into the area surrounding the company’s Sumas Mountain storage facility in Abbotsford, leaking into Kilgard Creek.
July 24, 2007: Almost 250,000 litres of crude oil spilled onto streets and into Burrard Inlet at the Westridge Terminal in Burnaby when a construction crew inadvertently hit the unmarked Trans Mountain pipeline. At least 50 homes had to be evacuated and residents reported nauseous gasses. See the BC Ministry of Environment Incident Report. Police and the Burnaby Fire Department had to be mobilized at tax payers expense.
May 6, 2009: Almost 200,000 litres of oil leaking at the Forest Hill Tank Farm on Burnaby Mountain. Police and the Burnaby Fire Department had to be mobilized at tax payers expense.
January 24, 2012: A pipeline rupture at the Sumas Mountain tank farm spilled an estimated 110,000 litres of oil. Local residents reported health problems including nausea, headaches and fatigue, and schoolchildren were kept indoors for fear of airborne toxins. Again, police and the Burnaby Fire Department had to be mobilized at tax payers expense.
April 3, 2012: Another spill in a “containment area” at the Abbotsford Sumas Mountain facility caused odors and air quality concerns in surrounding communities.
June 12, 2013: A leak was discovered on the Kinder Morgan pipeline near Merritt, BC.
June 26, 2013: Just two weeks after the spill near Merritt, yet another leak was discovered this time spilling up to 4,000 litres of oil at a site near the Coquihalla Summit, about 40 km east of Hope, BC.