{"id":19063,"date":"2018-06-06T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/?post_type=impact&#038;p=19063"},"modified":"2023-03-09T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:03:21","slug":"spills-regulation-results","status":"publish","type":"engagement","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/engagement\/spills-regulation-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Spills Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Spills Regulation<\/h1>\n\n<h2><strong>Engagement Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On January 30, 2018, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (the Minister) announced a proposed second phase of regulations to improve preparedness, response and recovery from potential spills.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nThe first phase of the regulations, approved in October 2017, established a standard of preparedness, response and recovery necessary to protect B.C.\u2019s environment. With some exceptions for B.C. oil and gas regulated entities, the Phase 1 regulations apply to pipelines transporting any quantity of liquid petroleum products, and rail or trucking operations transporting over 10,000 litres of liquid petroleum products.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nThe public was invited to provide input on the four policy areas online by completing a questionnaire during the consultation process.<br>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Timeframe<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>February 28 to April 30, 2018<br>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Input Received<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>42,695 visits to the Spills Regulation engagement site<\/li>\n<li>5,030 completed online questionaires were received<\/li>\n<li>13,671 written submissions were received<\/li>\n<li>18 stakeholder submissions were received<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Input leads to action:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Following the close of the engagement period, a policy update signalling the direction government will be taking with new spills regulation will be published.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback from the various engagement has been summarized in four What We Heard reports: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2018\/06\/summary_of_first_nations_workshops_comments.pdf\">Summary of First Nations Workshops Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2018\/06\/summary_of_organizations_comments.pdf\">Summary of Organizations Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2018\/06\/summary_of_public_comments.pdf\">Summary of Public Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2018\/06\/summary_of_technical_working_groups_comments.pdf\">Summary of Technical Working Groups Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","engagement_category":[212],"engagement_region":[192],"engagement_status":[207],"engagement_pin_group":[],"class_list":["post-19063","engagement","type-engagement","status-publish","hentry","engagement_category-environmental-protection","engagement_region-province-wide","engagement_status-closed-with-results"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"pinned_engagement_toggle":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement\/19063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/engagement"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement\/19063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62372,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement\/19063\/revisions\/62372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"engagement_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_category?post=19063"},{"taxonomy":"engagement_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_region?post=19063"},{"taxonomy":"engagement_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_status?post=19063"},{"taxonomy":"engagement_pin_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/govtogetherbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_pin_group?post=19063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}