Enbridge has missed the US Environmental Protection Agency's deadline to clean up parts of the Marshall, Michigan bitumen spill by December 31, 2013. Local television news, WOOD-TV says the EPA is now considering “enforcement options.” The EPA had already granted Enbridge a 10 month extension that the company requested in March, 2013, setting the new […]
Tag: pipeline break
Kinder Morgan has filed a last minute objection to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel's preliminary conditions for the Enbridge project. One of the objections from Kinder Morgan is the provision in the JRP's proposed Gateway conditions for “purpose built tugs” to escort tankers (a measure that Enbridge has proposed for the Gateway project). Another […]
The government of British Columbia has filed a harsh assessment of Enbridge Northern Gateway in its final arguments submitted May 31 to the Joint Review Panel—much harsher than the government press release giving notice of the rejection suggests. "'Trust me' is not good enough in this case,” the filing by BC government lawyer Christopher Jones […]
A study by two scholars at Simon Fraser University says that the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is much more hazardous to Kitimat harbour, Douglas Channel and the BC Coast than Enbridge has told the Joint Review Panel. The study by Dr. Thomas Gunton, director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU and […]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Enbridge to dredge the Kalamazoo River to remove addition bitumen. The EPA issued this news release CHICAGO (March 14, 2013) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued an administrative order that requires Enbridge to do additional dredging in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River to clean up oil from […]
Two days left for public input on BC "heavy oil" spill response plans
February 13, 2013
Residents of British Columbia have just two days to file information and opinions on the province's plans for "options for strengthening BC’s spill preparedness and response policies and capacity." A page on the BC Ministry of the Environment's web site wants public input as part of "BC’s five conditions necessary for support of heavy oil […]
A new draft report for the U.S. Congress from the United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration takes new aim at Enbridge for failures in its pipeline leak detection and response system. Not that the PHMSA is singling out Enbridge, the report is highly critical of leak detection systems on all petroleum and natural […]
An alliance of four energy companies has updated plans for a multi-billion dollar, ten-year liquefied natural gas megaproject that would take gas from Alaska's North Slope for shipment to Asia through the oil port at Valdez. Three of the companies, Exxon Mobile, ConocoPhillips and BP already have operations on the North Slope. TransCanada,which is already planning to […]
EPA orders Enbridge to do more cleanup on the Kalamazoo River
October 3, 2012
http://storify.com/nwcstenergynews/epa-orders-enbridge-to-do-more-cleanup-on-the-kala
The 911 system failed during the 2010 Marshall, Michigan, Enbridge pipeline breach, according to the full report in the incident released by the US National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB report says the 911 operators in Michigan dismissed eight calls reporting gas or petroleum odours over a period of 14 hours between the initial report […]