Canadian Energy Pipeline Association Blog ~ July 8, 2015
If you ever watched Fraggle Rock, the idea of a world literally underground is nothing new. Although Fraggles and Doozers are yet to be discovered in Canada, there is a vast world just below our feet. That world is made up of thousands of kilometers of infrastructure that we use every day.
“The infrastructure we have in the ground is astronomical. We have everything from oil and gas to electrical to traffic lights to telecommunications, which is our 911 system here, and so many other things people take for granted that run the world we live in,” explained Dr. Dave Baspaly, chair of the Canadian Common Ground Alliance, an organization that works to prevent damage to these critical networks.
Canada recently developed a national standard for damage prevention and protection of underground infrastructure, so it’s a great time to tell you what Canada’s underground world looks like and what you can do to keep it safe.