Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report
The Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report is a compilation of summaries of publicly available emergency management information concerning critical infrastructure.
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DIR10-133 - July 13, 2010
News
Quality Wind Project Approved
B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner and Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister Bill Bennett granted an environmental assessment certificate for the proposed Quality WindProject. The proposed $455-million project consists of the development of a 142-megawatt wind energy facility that would include 79 wind turbine generators, one substation, a 22-kilometre transmission line, access and maintenance roads, and other associated infrastructure.
Source article – Government of British Columbia
Source item – British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office
Ship's oil leak closes St. Lawrence Seaway
The St. Lawrence River Seaway was closed Monday night after a Canada Steamship Lines-owned freighter, loaded with wheat, ran aground. The ship's fuel tank was punctured near the Côte-Sainte-Catherine lock, south of Montreal, and an unknown amount of oil escaped into the seaway. Rescue teams have installed booms to contain the spill and recover the fuel. The cleanup could take several days.
Source article - CBC
Source article - Radio-Canada
Source article - cyberpress.ca
Source article - The Gazette
Source article - Gouvernement du Québec
Public Safety Canada Geomatics provides a map of the affected areas.
Flooding pact just about set, Toews says
A funding deal between the federal and provincial governments to protect residents on the Red River north of Winnipeg from spring flooding is close to being inked, senior Manitoba MP Vic Toews (and Minister of Public Safety) said Monday. The Minister also said he is still looking at fine-tuning Ottawa's Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangement program to see how it can be used to co-fund flood-mitigation infrastructure north of Winnipeg.
Source Article - Winnipeg Free Press
Cyber tracking
CCIRC security publications
Over the course of the past 24 hours, CCIRC has not released any security publications.
CCIRC provides a list of recent and archived security publications.
Threat and vulnerability monitoring
CCIRC has not detected any new significant threats or vulnerabilities. Personnel responsible for information, systems and network security should continue to monitor and apply appropriate security precautions.
Relevant links
Below are links to sites related to Canada’s critical infrastructure.
- Food Recalls and Allergy Alerts
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Health Advisories, Warnings and Recalls
Health Canada
- Disease Outbreak News
World Health Organization
- Travel Health Notices
Public Health Agency of Canada
- Transportation - Safety
Transport Canada
- Travel Reports and Warnings
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
- Weather warnings for Canada
Environment Canada
- Earthquakes
Earthquakes Canada
- Hurricanes
Canadian Hurricane Centre
- Hurricanes
U.S. National Hurricane Center
- News Releases
Infrastructure Canada
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Note to readers
Public Safety Canada collects information related to cyber and physical threats to, and events concerning, Canadian critical infrastructure. This allows Public Safety Canada to monitor and analyze threats and to issue alerts, advisories and other information products.
Links to sites not under the control of the Government of Canada are provided solely for the convenience of users. The Government of Canada is not responsible for the accuracy, currency or the reliability of the content. The Government of Canada does not offer any guarantee in that regard and is not responsible for the information found through these links, nor does it endorse the sites and their content.
Public Safety Canada respects the Official Languages Act and is committed to ensuring that information products are available in both English and French. However, users should be aware that some links direct users to sites of organizations or other entities that are not subject to the Official Languages Act and that these sources are only available in the language in which they are written.