http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2014/12/enbridge-line-4-spills-1350-barrels-oil-regina
[As TransCanada Pipelines advertising is trumpeting on all channels and
frequencies: "Pipelines work!" Except when they don't. To be fair,
this spill is not on a TransCanada pipeline. It's on an Enbridge
pipeline; they guys who want to build the Northern Gateway pipeline to
the Pacific coast across the northern Rockies.]
Enbridge Line 4 spills 1,350 barrels of oil in Regina
By Brent Patterson | December 19, 2014
The Enbridge Line 4 pipeline, a 796,000 barrels per day pipeline from
Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, has spilled 1,350 barrels of oil at a
pumping station in Regina. [or, about 225,000 litres]
Council of Canadians Regina chapter activist Jim Elliott says, "It only
took 2 minutes and 26 seconds to spill 1,350 barrels of oil in the
latest spill in Regina."
Enbridge's Line 1 to 4 pipelines converge at Lake Superior and from
there join with Line 5 which goes around the northern shore of Lake
Michigan (and under the Straits of Mackinac) and Line 6 which goes
around the southern shore of the lake.
It is not clear at this point how long Line 4 will be shut down because
of the leak which is now under investigation. Enbridge said in June that
it was building a connection between Line 4 and Line 67 so that barrels
could be diverted to Line 67 during a prolonged disruption. Line 67 also
runs from Alberta to Wisconsin.
Elliott also comments, "Another day, another spill. When will this stop?
This is the second spill on this line. There was a spill on January 19,
2014 at a pump station in the south east part of the city, just 2
kilometres south of the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and
Technology campus." For more on that 125-barrel spill, please click here.
This may not be the last oil spill experienced by the city of Regina. It
is also on the route of the proposed 1.1 million barrels per day
TransCanada Energy East pipeline which would run through the Harbour
Landing subdivision in the southwest area of the city.
Enbridge is also the company behind the proposed Northern Gateway
pipeline that would move 525,000 barrels per day of bitumen from
Alberta's tar sands to Kitimat to then to be transported by supertankers
on the Pacific Ocean to export markets. An Enbridge Line 6B pipeline
spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan in July 2010 saw diluted bitumen sink in
the Kalamazoo River. More than four years later and after $1 billion
spent, submerged oil still remains in the river. Just last week Enbridge
agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a class action lawsuit against them
for this spill.
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