"When the engines aren't running and the station is offline, we usually hear some sounds of the outdoors, that are otherwise drowned out by the operating noise." Instead, with the engines not running, John and another team member, Garret Paugh, heard a cry for help coming from just outside the station and knew they needed to investigate.

For more than 20 years, Regional Land Representative Don Gresch has travelled up and down the Trans-Canada Highway visiting landowners and other key stakeholders along an 1,100-kilometre stretch of pipeline in northern Ontario. Whether acquiring land rights for expansion projects, permitting for pipeline maintenance activities or responding to pipeline system emergencies, managing relationships has been the key to success for Don.

Maria Sylte grew up in Houston playing classical piano in the hopes of one day becoming a band director. But she also enjoyed math and physics and wanted to explore a career in engineering. Her approach when she entered college: Why not do both?