Legal Notice No. 142

The following relates to the energy sector and energy services under Legal Notice 142.

(10) During the period of public emergency between the hours of 5:01 am to 8:59 pm every day, the following services may be provided:

(ah) energy services including–

(i) those in the electricity industry such as–

(A) workers who maintain, ensure, or restore the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, including call centres, utility workers, reliability engineers and fleet maintenance technicians;

(B) workers at generation, transmission, and electric facilities;

(C) IT and OT technology staff for EMS (Energy Management Systems) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and utility data centres; Cybersecurity engineers; cybersecurity risk management and back-up data technology;

(D) vegetation management crews and traffic workers who support; and

(E) environmental remediation/monitoring technicians, instrumentation, protection, and control technicians;

(ii) petroleum industries such as–

(A) petroleum stations and convenience marts attached thereto;

(B) petroleum product storage, pipeline, marine transport, terminals, road transport;

(C) crude oil storage facilities, pipeline, and marine transport;

(D) petroleum refinery facilities;

(E) petroleum security operations centre employees and workers who support emergency response services;

(F) petroleum operations control rooms or centres;

(G) petroleum drilling, extraction, production, processing, refining, terminal operations, transporting, and retail for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing;

(H) companies that provide services to oil and gas services; and

(I) onshore and offshore operations for maintenance and emergency response; and

(iii) those in the natural and propane industry as gas workers, including for–

(A) natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines, including compressor stations;

(B) underground storage of natural gas;

(C) natural gas processing plants, and those that

deal with natural gas liquids;

(D) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities;

(E) natural gas security operations centre, natural gas operations dispatch and control rooms or centres natural gas emergency response and customer emergencies, including natural gas leak calls;

(F) drilling, production, processing, refining, and transporting natural gas for use as end-use fuels, feedstocks for chemical manufacturing, or use in electricity generation;

(G) propane gas dispatch and control rooms and emergency response and customer emergencies, including propane leak calls;

(H) propane gas service maintenance and restoration, including call centres;

(I) processing, refining, and transporting natural liquids, including propane gas, for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing; and

(J) propane gas storage, transmission, and distribution centres;

(ai) critical manufacturing such as workers necessary for the manufacturing of materials and products needed for medical supply chains, transportation, energy, communications, food, beverage and agriculture, chemical manufacturing, the operation of dams, water and wastewater treatment, emergency services, law enforcement and defence services;

(aj) chemical services such as–

(i) workers supporting the chemical and industrial gas supply chains, including workers at chemical manufacturing plants, workers in laboratories, workers at distribution facilities, workers who transport basic raw chemical materials to the producers of industrial and consumer goods, including hand sanitizers, food, beverage and food and beverage additives, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and paper products;

(ii) workers supporting the safe transportation of chemicals, including those supporting tank truck cleaning facilities and workers who manufacture packaging items;

(iii) workers supporting the production of protective cleaning and medical solutions, personal protective equipment, and packaging that prevents the contamination of food, water, medicine, among other essential products;

(iv) workers supporting the operation and maintenance of facilities, particularly those with high risk chemicals or sites that cannot be shut down, whose work cannot be done remotely and requires the presence of highly trained personnel to ensure safe operations, including plant contract workers who provide inspections; and

(v) workers who support the production and transportation of chlorine and alkali manufacturing, single-use plastics, and packaging that prevents the contamination or supports the continued manufacture of food, water, medicine, and other essential products, including glass container manufacturing;

(5) Subregulation (1) shall not apply–

(y) energy services including–

(i) those in the electricity industry such as–

(A) workers who maintain, ensure, or restore the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, including call centres, utility workers, reliability engineers and fleet maintenance technicians;  

(B) workers at generation, transmission, and electric facilities; 

(C) IT and OT technology staff for EMS (Energy Management Systems) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and utility data centres; Cybersecurity engineers; cybersecurity risk management and back-up data technology; 

(D) vegetation management crews and traffic workers who support; and 

(E) environmental remediation/monitoring technicians, instrumentation, protection, and control technicians; 

(ii) petroleum industries such as– 

(A) petroleum stations and convenience marts attached thereto; 

(B) petroleum product storage, pipeline, marine transport, terminals, road transport; 

(C) crude oil storage facilities, pipeline, and marine transport; 

(D) petroleum refinery facilities; 

(E) petroleum security operations centre employees and workers who support emergency response services; 

(F) petroleum operations control rooms or centres; 

(G) petroleum drilling, extraction, production, processing, refining, terminal operations, transporting, and retail for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing; (H) companies that provide services to oil and gas services; and 

(I) onshore and offshore operations for maintenance and emergency response; and 

(iii) those in the natural and propane industry as gas workers, including for– 

(A) natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines, including compressor stations; 

(B) underground storage of natural gas;

(C) natural gas processing plants, and those that deal with natural gas liquids; 

(D) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities; 

(E) natural gas security operations centre, natural gas operations dispatch and control rooms or centres natural gas emergency response and customer emergencies, including natural gas leak calls; 

(F) drilling, production, processing, refining, and transporting natural gas for use as end-use fuels, feedstocks for chemical manufacturing, or use in electricity generation; 

(G) propane gas dispatch and control rooms and emergency response and customer emergencies, including propane leak calls; 

(H) propane gas service maintenance and restoration, including call centres; 

(I) processing, refining, and transporting natural liquids, including propane gas, for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing; and 

(J) propane gas storage, transmission, and distribution centres; 

(z) critical manufacturing such as workers necessary for the manufacturing of materials and products needed for medical supply chains, transportation, energy, communications, food, beverage and agriculture, chemical manufacturing, the operation of dams, water and wastewater treatment, emergency services, law enforcement and defence services; 

(aa) chemical services such as– 

(i) workers supporting the chemical and industrial gas supply chains, including workers at chemical manufacturing plants, workers in laboratories, workers at distribution facilities, workers who transport basic raw chemical materials to the producers of industrial and consumer goods, including hand sanitizers, food, beverage and food and beverage additives, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and paper products; 

(ii) workers supporting the safe transportation of chemicals, including those supporting tank truck cleaning facilities and workers who manufacture packaging items;

 (iii) workers supporting the production of protective cleaning and medical solutions, personal protective equipment, and packaging that prevents the contamination of food, water, medicine, among others essential products; 

(iv) workers supporting the operation and maintenance of facilities, particularly those with high risk chemicals or sites that cannot be shut down, whose work cannot be done remotely and requires the presence of highly trained personnel to ensure safe operations, including plant contract workers who provide inspections; and 

(v) workers who support the production and transportation of chlorine and alkali manufacturing, single-use plastics, and packaging that prevents the contamination or supports the continued manufacture of food, water, medicine, and other essential products, including glass container manufacturing;