I swear historically they (the NDP) would have been vehemently against this as I recall them being very pro privacy in the past.

Crawler is possible, still need to get into the line though, I recall there being a few options for tethered camera crawlers meant for sewer inspection. Visual does have drawbacks, can’t really size defects, as far as I recall it’s difficult to get full coverage and cleanliness is even more important, and you’d general need the operations on that pipe to cease. Ideally you want your inspection regiment to allow you to know something’s coming and be able to plan for it, example if I start seeing vibration increasing on some bearings, I can monitor them and start planning for their replacement on a scheduled shutdown.

No inspection is actually a totally valid mitigation plan for some assets. Criticality and failure consequences play a large role in that as well as the feasibility to inspect. Electrical devices for example follow random failure patterns and historically don’t really have a timeframe between failure initiation and functional failure that’s actionable, so a mitigation strategy I’ve seen done is something like hot spares if it’s critical. On the other hand, something that is inspectable but won’t result in high consequence of failure (death and injury are the things that are usually weighted heavily) it might not be worth inspecting either, it’s all about trying to get the most out of limited maintenance budgets.

I did smart pigging and challenging pipeline stuff years ago and reliability engineering up to a few years ago, also got out of o+g for similar reasons.

Totally agree and just adding on to all that, even if it was steel, I’m super willing to bet it’d be impossible to run a normal pig through, so much infrastructure is just full of diameter changes, unbarred tees, really tight back to back bends etc, I can only imagine the challenges to pig a line like that, let alone costs involved with specialised tooling and support work, I know some people who did a short run through a downtown core on a gas main and that needed hot taps, road closures and a really special pig for what was less than a kilometre.

Supposing it could be pigged without blowing up their entire maintenance budget, I wouldn’t want to touch any of the water coming out of that line during operations, so you’d also interrupt water service for a while, having a solid reaction plan really would be one of the best solutions.

Nah, they’re the grits

We’re an exporter of it, former PM Stephen Harper is currently the chair of the IDU which promotes it globally.

Step 2, spend 3 hours comparing your results with every person after the exam.

Optional step: calculate the minimum score you need to pass, more applicable to those of us that had courses 70-100% of the final grade coming from the final exam.

That sure looks like a list of things that were once crown corps and then sold for pennies by Tories to the detriment of the Canadian population

Don’t forgot about the pizza or one single box of slightly stale Tims donuts for an entire office. We’re a family here and our culture is important!!!