CER Pipeline Incidents – Canada Energy Regulator
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 results
CER Pipeline Incidents – Canada Energy Regulator
Incidents on federally regulated Canadian pipelines from CER open data: company, substance, volume, cause, location, injuries/fatalities counts.
What it does
Reads the Canada Energy Regulator's comprehensive pipeline incident CSV, covering incidents on federally regulated pipelines since 2008 (~2,000 incidents, updated monthly). It returns clean, filtered records: company, substance, volume released, cause categories, location, significance, and injury, fatality and evacuation counts. One file download per run, no page scraping.
Source: Pipeline Incident Data on open.canada.ca.
Who it's for
Energy and ESG analysts, insurers and risk teams, environmental groups, journalists and researchers comparing operators, substances and causes.
Input
| Key | Notes |
|---|---|
company | contains, e.g. Enbridge |
province | contains, e.g. Alberta |
substance | contains, e.g. Crude Oil, Natural Gas |
incidentType | contains, e.g. Release of Substance, Fire |
significantOnly | only incidents CER flags as significant |
minVolumeM3 | minimum approximate volume released |
reportedFrom / reportedTo | YYYY-MM-DD |
maxItems | default 100, maximum 50,000 |
Example: {"substance": "Crude", "reportedFrom": "2024-01-01"}
Output
incidentNumber, incidentTypes, reportedDate, occurrenceDateTime (as published, local time with zone name), year, status, closedDate, company, province, nearestPopulatedCentre, latitude, longitude, substance, releaseType, volumeReleasedM3, significant, whatHappenedCategory, whatHappened, whyHappenedCategory, whyHappened, pipelineOrFacilityType, pipelineName, facilityName, fatalities, injured, evacuated, source, licence. Dates are converted to YYYY-MM-DD.
Privacy
- Per-person injury detail is not exported:
Type of Injury,Activity at time of fatality,Workdays lostandWork restricted by injuryare dropped. Only the counts (fatalities, injured, evacuated) are kept. - In the detail text fields, every email address and phone number is replaced with
[redacted](none were found in the Oct 2026 file). - What is checked: the four per-person injury columns above are dropped;
whatHappenedandwhyHappened(free text) are scanned and email addresses and phone numbers replaced. No other field is scanned for personal names, and the free text is not name-filtered.companyis the regulated operator. Only the fields listed under Output are exported. Latitude and longitude are the incident location on the pipeline, as published by CER. - The data is reduced, not anonymous: an incident's date, place and counts may still let someone who knows the event identify the people involved.
- The other ~75 technical columns (pipe specs, pressures and so on) are not included in v0.1.
Licence and terms
- Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada, which allows use "including for commercial purposes" with attribution. Every row carries the attribution.
- Automated access:
www.cer-rec.gc.ca/robots.txtdisallows only/fracfocusand/binfor general crawlers (plus a list of named bad bots), and/open/is allowed. No terms were found that ban automated download of the open data. The Actor makes one request per run. - Independent; not endorsed by the Canada Energy Regulator.
Pricing
Price: $0.003 per result, no start fee (pay per event apify-default-dataset-item, one result = one incident). The full ~2,000 incidents cost about $6.
Limits
- English file only. The data is as current as CER's monthly update. Recent incidents may still show "Submitted" status and change later.
