Report - Agence canadienne d'évaluation environnementale

Assessing the risks related to the project
The Comité mixte municipal-industriel and the public
advisory committee
Should his project be completed, the proponent should join the Comité mixte
municipal-industriel (CMMI) of Lévis. This committee is composed of representatives
from departments, ministries and organizations such as Environment Canada, the
MDDEP, the Agences de santé et des services sociaux as well as the ministère de la
Sécurité publique. Among others, the CMMI would be responsible for assessing the
communication plan for emergency situations, as well as implementing the means
retained for this purpose, six months before the start of the project’s operation.
Communication actions on security would also be taken by the public advisory
committee, which would be formed as soon as the terminal was built. It would include
representatives from the proponent, elected officials, authorized agents for
representative groups and for citizens of Lévis, Beaumont and île d’Orléans (DB28;
City of Lévis, DM315, p. 11; DQ17.9). Besides, the ministère de la Sécurité publique
found that such a joint collaboration between the major stakeholders was appropriate
(Mr. Romain St-Cyr, DT12, p. 82). In this respect, the Panel believed it necessary for
the proponent to implement a yearly information mechanism to provide the project’s
operational security report, for individuals who could be affected by accidents
involving the project’s facilities.
In other respects, the MRC de Bellechasse expressed its wish to take part in, and
name to the CMMI a person representing its territory (DM560, p. 8). In this respect,
the Panel believed that representatives from the MRC de L’Île-d’Orléans should also
sit on this committee as some sectors of its territory could be affected by
consequences stemming from a major accident with an LNG tanker in transit close to
the shores, even though the Panel assessed the probability of such an event as low.
♦ Opinion 13 — The Panel is of the opinion that, should the project be implemented,
the Comité mixte municipal-industriel of the City of Lévis should offer representatives
of the MRC de L’Île-d’Orléans and of the MRC de Bellechasse the possibility of taking
part in the committee’s proceedings.
♦ Recommendation 6 — Should the project be implemented, the Panel recommends
that the proponent set up a yearly public information mechanism regarding the
project’s operational security report, for individuals who could be affected by accidents
involving the project’s facilities.
Protection against fires
The City of Lévis specified that the risk coverage plan, whose project was approved in
2004, will allow in 2011 to efficiently cover the needs created by the project’s
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