Friday
Jul302010
"Safety is a top priority for Enbridge"
Friday, July 30, 2010 at 12:00AM 
Gee, where have we heard that before?
The oil company responsible for this week's 819,000-gallon spill into the Kalamazoo River has a history of safety issues, according to federal regulators.
LINK (Via: CBS News)
This would be the same company that wants to build two pipelines across critical watersheds as part of the Alberta tar sands project.
U.S. regulators warned a subsidiary of Enbridge in January that it wasn't adequately monitoring the corrosion of a Michigan pipeline that leaked an estimated 3.8 million litres of oil into the Kalamazoo River this week.
LINK (Via: CTV NEWS)
tagged enbridge pipeline, michigan oil spill in Environment
enbridge pipeline, michigan oil spill in Environment
Reader Comments (1)
CEO had the audacity a few days ago to say that clean-up efforts so far are "overkill" - dude just doesn't get it
millions have been spent removing pcbs and the river has really come back - one irony is that a current pcb removal project just upstream of plainwell has been put on hold due to three of the five paper co. defendants going bankrupt and the other two simply running out of funds
mayor dailey in chicago just ran his political mouth by saying that the magnitude of the oil leak is much worse than the threat posed by asian carp