The Globe and Mail - 11.03.2020

Notice of Public Hearing and Registration to Participate

Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (Enbridge)

Canadian Mainline Contracting Application (Application)

On 19 December 2019, the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) received an application from Enbridge for approval of a new service and

tolling framework for the Canadian Mainline, pursuant to Parts 1, 3 and 9 oftheCanadianEnergyRegulatorAct(CER Act).

Descriptionof the Application

The Application requests an order of the Commission of the CER

(Commission):

a) approving the implementation of firm service on 90 per cent

of the available capacity of the Canadian Mainline to be provided

in accordance with allterms and conditions,including the toll

methodology, contained in the pro-forma transportationservices

agreements (TSAs) and the pro-forma rules and regulations tariffs

for crude petroleum, natural gas liquids and refined petroleum

products (Rules Tariffs), pursuant to sections 226, 230 and 231,

and subsection 239(1) of the CER Act;

b) approving the reservation of 10 per cent of the available

capacity of the Canadian Mainline for uncommitted volumes

and the implementation of uncommitted transportation service

in accordance with all terms and conditions, including the toll

methodology, contained in the Application, the pro-forma TSAs,

the Rules Tariffs and the illustrative Canadian Mainline local and

international joint uncommitted tolls tariffs, pursuant to sections

226, 230 and 231 of the CER Act;

c) approving the methodologies to set the Canadian Mainline

receipt and delivery tankage revenue requirement and receipt and

delivery terminalling tolls as set out in the Application, pursuant to

sections 226, 229, 230 and 231 of the CER Act;

d) declaring that the applied-for open season procedures are

appropriate and will lead to an open season that is fair, transparent

and consistent with Enbridge’s common carrier requirements,

pursuant to sections 32, 226, 231 and 235, and subsection 239(1)

of the CER Act;

e) approving the continuation of Enbridge’s exemption, formerly

issued under subsection 129(1.1) of theNationalEnergyBoardAct,

from the requirement to keep the system of accounts described

by theOilPipelineUniformAccountingRegulations, pursuant to

subsection 389(2) of the CER Act; and

f) granting such further and other relief as Enbridge may request or

the Commission may consider appropriate, pursuant to section 68

of the CER Act.

The Application can be found on the CER’s website at

http://www.cer-rec.gc.ca (click on “Applications & Filings, Major

Applications and Projects” and scroll down to Enbridge Pipelines

Inc. – Application for Canadian Mainline Contracting).

Participation in the Commission’s Hearing

The Commission has determined that it will hold a public hearing

to consider the Application. The Commission has decided to use

the Participation Portal for this proceeding. Therefore, all persons

wishing to make use of the Participation Portal are encouraged to

use the ATP system to register.

All Canadian Mainlineshippers, persons who filed letters of

comment during the Comment Process, and those Interested

Persons found in Appendix C to this are granted Intervenor

status in this proceeding, should they wish to participate at that

level. These parties will need to register through the ATP system,

described below, to use the Participation Portal. Enbridge, the

applicant, is automatically registered in the ATP system.

Other members of the public may participate in this proceeding

by registering through the ATP system. You will be entitled to

participate by filing a letter of comment, at a minimum. Should

you wish to participate as an Intervenor, provide information to

demonstrate that your interests may be sufficiently impacted by

the Commission’s decision, and/or that your participation as an

Intervenor will aid the Commission.

The Commission encourages persons with similar interests in

the Application to consider applying to Intervene as a group and

having a common spokesperson to speak for that group. Repeating

matters is not helpful to the Commission as it does not give that

matter more weight and is not an efficient use of hearing time.

Registration will occur between12-18 March 2020. The

Commission will release a List of Participants shortly after the

close of registration in the ATP system.

To register, go to the CER’s website:http://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/,

select “Submit Applications and Regulatory Documents” under

“Applications & Filings”, select “Apply to Participate” and then

“Enbridge Canadian Mainline Contracting”. Follow the instructions

to obtain a CER Account and complete your Application to

Participate form.

Persons can also register by e-filing a letter to the Secretary of

the Commission through the CER’s website (Electronic Document

Submission), expressing their interest and indicating the preferred

level of participation. Please refer to file number

OF-Tolls-Group1-E101-2019-02 02 on your filing.

Information on Hearing Procedures

Information on CER hearing processes is available by:

• Contacting the CER toll free at 1-800-899-1265; or


• Accessing the CER’s website, selectHearingsandInformation
  Sessions, and then click onParticipateinCERHearings.

A8 CORONAVIRUS O THEGLOBEANDMAIL| WEDNESDAY,MARCH11,

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n the second floor of a resi-
dential building in north-
west Wuhan, John Zhu has
made his home a fortress against
the virus. His wife and 13-year-old
son have not stepped out of the
apartment in 46 days. He has
emerged only briefly to pick up
grocery deliveries and, twice, to
bring food to the family dog,
A’han, which is alone in his moth-
er’s house.
Mr. Zhu has succeeded in keep-
ing his family safe from the virus

• and A’han alive – even as three
  people in his apartment complex
  contracted COVID-19 and almost
  2,400 have died in Wuhan, the
  Chinese city at the epicentre of
  the outbreak.
  But weeks of isolation have
  poisoned Mr. Zhu’s family life,
  wiped out his income and corrod-
  ed his trust in the public institu-
  tions that, he believes, failed to
  properly respond to the virus un-
  til it was too late – and have now
  kept him locked up long after its
  peak.
  It’s an epidemic toll visited up-
  on the healthy that stands to be
  repeated elsewhere as other
  countries look to the Chinese ex-
  ample in fighting the virus. Ital-
  ian authorities have sought to
  place the entire country’s citizens
  under lockdown. Schools in Ja-
  pan have been shuttered, while
  authorities have ordered the clos-
  ing of malls and restaurants on
  the island of Hokkaido.
  Such steps have been seen as
  perhaps the only way to halt the
  spread of the deadly virus. A new

study by researchers at Tongji

Medical College in Wuhan, Fudan

University in Shanghai and Har-

vard’s T.H. Chan School of Public

Health analyzed 25,961 laborato-

ry-confirmed COVID-19 cases to

conclude that the lockdown of

Wuhan dramatically decreased

the transmission rate and pre-

vented hundreds of thousands of

people from contracting it.

“The series of interventions

has been highly effective in con-

trolling the epidemic in Wuhan,”

they concluded.

But parallel research has

shown there are also costs to

keeping people under extended

lockdown. One study by Chinese

scholars found signs of depres-

sion among almost half the peo-

ple surveyed nationwide during

the outbreak. Another showed

that a third of people in Wuhan

exhibited signs of moderate or se-

vere anxiety, four to five times the

normal rate.

Mr. Zhu, 39, counts himself

among those afflicted by anxiety,

though he has received no formal

diagnosis.

He first heard about the out-

break in late December, when he

saw a picture on the Twitter-like

Weibo service of workers in full-

body protective equipment disin-

fecting the Wuhan seafood and

wild animal market that played a

key role in the spread of CO-

VID-19. The image reminded him

of his time in Beijing, where he

had worked as an intern during

the SARS outbreak in 2002 and

2003. He immediately suspected
      that government officials were
      not disclosing the severity of the
      situation and that bad things
      were to come.
      He pulled his son out of school,
      urged his wife to stop her work as
      a fitness instructor and stock-
      piled rice and cooking oil.
      He had built a business export-
      ing electronics to Central Asia.
      But he struggled to focus on any-
      thing but social media posts
      showing medical workers break-
      ing down in tears and people

grieving dead relatives.

“I had no idea how to cope

with all of these feelings,” he said.

When the announcement

came that Wuhan would be

locked down, he packed his bags

and prepared to leave – only to re-

consider, believing local officials

would manage the outbreak. But

when authorities shut down

roads and ordered people to stay

inside, panic set in.

He battled insomnia. On nights

he did sleep, he woke up

drenched in sweat. After a week

under lockdown, he decided to

abandon social media, hoping

that might help.

But unplugging did little to

help his relations with his wife

and son. Before the outbreak, the

family regularly strolled through

a nearby park after dinner to talk.

“That time walking was one of

the most important elements in

building up our family,” he said.

“But since the lockdown, we no

longer have a chance to hang out

together.”

Instead, anxiety has forced

him into seclusion, even from his

own family. “We are living under

the same roof but hardly talk to

each other,” he said. He harbours

deep misgivings about the gov-

ernment’s response, but fears

passing them on to his son.

“There’s no way I can explain to

him the reasons for what is hap-

pening without lying to him or

giving perfunctory answers,” he

said.

Things are little better with his

wife. To get some distance from

his restlessness at night, she be-

gan to sleep in the living room. He

stays in the bedroom, and the

couple barely speak. She “doesn’t

like it when I talk about the vi-

rus,” he said. “We always had a lot

of things to say – we have similar

hobbies. But that’s no longer the

case.”

In the past, he cooked. His wife

has now taken on that role. “All

we talk about now is what to eat

and what to buy – that’s it.”

With no income, they are eat-

ing into savings to survive, and

the price of groceries has dou-

bled. He has only been able to

bring food to A’han twice in six

weeks. A’han has grown weak and

thin, but Mr. Zhu’s apartment

complex has told him he cannot

bring the dog home.

He feels trapped by thoughts of

the epidemic. He doesn’t read any

more and instead passes the days

watching mindless sitcoms, a

stream of unmemorable enter-

tainment that has left his memo-

ry of time under lockdown hazy.

The mental pressure has not,

however, diminished his feelings

about the measures taken in Wu-

han. He offers himself as a warn-

ing to other cities and countries

contemplating the same.

“As someone who has person-

ally experienced the whole proc-

ess, I have to say that the Wuhan

lockdown might not be as posi-

tive as it has been perceived by

the outside world,” he said. It

“worsened public panic and de-

stroyed order. ... It is extraordina-

rily terrible.”

WithreportingbyAlexandraLi

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